The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1865-05-24
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It's parallel is to be found, in the despo
tism and murder, Of the, Sultan ,Selim BY
his Janizaries, expiated under, bis ,suo.l
oessor By nthe the general IN massacre Of those
troops. ~ ,,iSt, ~.
Nor has, that phase Of modern history
which succeeded the Napoleonic wars
been, free from similar crimes. Plot fol-
lowed plot in France after the return Of
the Bourbons. Wellington was fred at
by Cantillon, but escaped an assassina-
tion the more wanton, as he was then en-.
gagged in the pacifcation Of France, and
in mitigating the burdens imposed by the
invaders on France. When Louis XVIII
landed at Calais, in 1914, Louvel attempt
ed to get to the pier, in order to assassin
ate him the instant he set foot on the
soil Of France. Haunted with the idea
Of regicids, he sought for years the occa-
sion to crafty it, and failed but in 1920
tho opportunity presented itself as the
Due De Berri /; the nephew Of Louis and
the second son Of Count D'Artois, after.
wards Charles X, was in front Of the
opera house, and had just conducted his
wife to her carriage, when the dagger Of
Louvel struck him fatal blow.
The Cato street Conspiracy in England
embraced wide circle Of crime. Forty
men dedicated themselves to the murd r
Of the King and his cabinet the siezure
Of the Bank of England, and the decla.
ration Of a Provisional Government,
showed the object Of the plot. The de-
lection Of the plot, the conflict in the
dark between the police and the, conspir-
asors, and the hanging Of Thistlewood
and his four companions, with the decap.
itation Of their dead bodies, form bloody
and tragic history not to be exeelled in
horror.
This was in 1920. The assassination
OF the dramatist Kotzebue. in Germany
the previous year by Charles Frederick
Sands, in pursuance Of sentence Of
death passed by the tribunal ol secret
society, was memorable because literary
man was theNvic.im.
Since then, what crimes The reign Of
the good and moderate Louis Philippe
was stained by the attempts Of Fieschi
to whose "infernal machine" forty of tbt
coriege, surrounding the King and hi
family fell victims, while they, miracu
lously escaped. This was in 1895 Th'
attempt Of Allibaud followed in 1886
that Of Darues in 1S40. Vain, uscles
crimes Orsini's plot, aimed at Napo
leon III, rivaled, in destructlveness tn
internal machine destined for the Firs
, Napoleon and that aimed at Louis Phil
lips. .a
The attempt Of dismissed navy off
Ger, Randolph, to assassinate Genera
jackson, was the only crime of this kin'
that has ever stained eur annals. Th
mysterious poisoning Of the National Hc
tel, on the Inauguration Of Buchanan,
matter of conjecture only-opinion be
ing divided as to the origin Of that mys
. terious illness whether malaria or POI
$ son if the latter, as to who were th
f guilty, who the destined victims, an
what the object!
In the long catalogue Of crime whic
!, history reveals, one thing is striking :
The plots failing, involved the authors i
}, a fatal web, or successful, were followe
r by fearful sequence of calamities. A
5 the assassins of Caesar perished by. VII
Q lenoo; The blow they struck in tf
name OF Liberty was the siguarf5r orga1
$ izing Despotism. So of every such a
S tempt. Thar futility but shows the MAJ
d ness Of those who taking their own fra
0 passions and weak judgements for q guild
% assume to set at naught GoD's MANDL1
If AGAINST MURDER. .