The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1865-05-16

enough IN al ages Of the world, and
princes and rulers NOR. frequently
than other classes OF persons have
been ihe victims ot It bat IN running
over The historical examples in mind
inly three oi them seem AT all worthy
be parallvlled with the late afro
eioos murder o. President Line In
II Is no wonder thai the Turk who
canno; bear brother near the throne
or the tyrant who outrages the sacred
rights Of men, Ihould often have been
dispatched out Of fear, revenge, or
even the nobler motive 10 rid the
world Of such a monster; eases
such as these are hardly want
ing in any long continued dyna.-
~ since The world began. When a
French marshal who had been some-
time an ambassador al Constautinople
vas enlarging to Louis XIV on the
unlimited authority oC the sultan. The
king exclaimed, All that is some
thing like reigning p . True, sire, "
dryly responded the marshal, and |
have seen two or three sultans strangled
in my time ]" Punch once defined the
Russian, czar TO be" substance highly
assassinatiye,' aud the annals of all
the older nationss are full TO surieit
of deadly assaults upon kings and
other officials, midnight murders OF
young princes, and poisoned potions.
Occasionally the page Of history is lit
up by such an act as that OF Charlotte
Corday, who plunged the dagger deep
into the breast Of The blood.thirsty
and relentless Murat, and who is po-
elically described by Lamartine as the
angel Of assassination but most OF
these common and uncommon cases
are wholly out Of the question in The
comparison we have in hand. Not
so, however, the historical examples
of Julius Caesar, the Roman, William
Of Orange, the Hollander, and Henry
~, king of the French.
History never exactly repeats it.
self, and contrasts are always suggest
ed in every historical comparison, yet
there is something striking in the
points Of resemblance between the
position Of Julius Cesar in the Rom an
republic, and his fate, struck dead in
the senate house on the ides OF March,
"A b. e., and the position Of Abra-
ham Lincoln IN the American repub-
lie, and his fate, struck also dead in a
public theatre, and only not on the
iGes 'ot March because the plan Of
the cons rators miscarried. Caesar
was the iayorite OF the people, and the
the enthusiastic support OF the mass
es Of his C, untrymen never faxed him
while the aristocratic faction al Rome
cared and hated him, and their per-
sisient and tumultuous opposition both
within and without the forms Of the
led him in defense to acts
of questionable authority viewed
merely from the standpoint OF the
and il was the young
men OF this faction, blinded to the true
slate o. the commonwealth and TO the
importance OF Caesar to is preserva-
iion and well-being, who thrust their
daggers into the bosom of the popu-
lar magistrate. So with our late la
mented chief: his throne was in the
hearts of the masses, and not else.
where the critics and the the usual
leaders OF public opinion, have not
been the seat OF his strength while
the whole brood OF slsvery-lovers and
liberty-haiers and aristocrats the
world over disliked and spited him.
The man who murdered him had not
even The poor excuse of the assassins
Of Caesar, ;hat the forms of the con-
were in danger not lured as
they we're by the false lights of an
patriotism, his blow was the
naked expression at the frenzied hate
Of true born southerne er and seces-
sionist towards the large-hearted
of the broadest human
rights. No doubt his compeers were
all Of similar stamp. In the descrip-
tion OF the wretch who assaulted the
Stewards, it is given as a feature that
he had delicate hands with taper
Ing fingers not used TO work! We
will guarantee that be was not used
10 work The antagonism of privi.
lege TO popular rights, Of aristocracy
Of every name TO the genuine repre-
sentatiyes of the masses, is intense
and eternal, cropping out IN every
generation OF men
Caesar was not only man Of broad
and kindly sympathies irresistibly at.
racting men towards himself, and in
his respect resembling President
Lincoln; he was also a great bene
actor Of his country and his name
yill forever be associated with reform
Iticns in the state, with mitigations
md equality introduced into the laws,
md with The new and greatly improv-
d calendar that bears his name
Jhanges OF opinion and policy had
'een gradually coming over the Roman
long before Caesar
anne into power be was fated to
land as the helm at the crisis; TO
ear the brunt Of the battle for and
gainst the constitution; be was am
iiions, but he knew or thought he
new whai the interests OF his eoun-
y required, and that they we're con-
lstent with his oYn, and historians
ave hesitated whether 10 adiudge tbs
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