The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-04-22
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The Canadian papers are outspoken in
their denurftiation of the assassination,
which is very justly pronounced the
most atrocious crime on record. The To-
| ronto Leader, an organ Of streng seces-
| sion proclivities has the following inter
esting article on the subject: "A crime
| 40 horrible as assassination is held in de-
testation and adherence by every civil
| lied people. The savage tribes Of Amer
| lea, by wnsm it is systematically prac-
ticed, resort to it only to avenge the
murder of a relative Unless under Pc
culiar circumstances, it carries with 1t
the presumption of cowardice There
are not wanting, in recent times, plenty
of instances of attempts being made TO
assassinate royal or other eminent pollti-
cal personages; but they have almost in
variably miscarried from one cause or
another The attempts on the life OF Ma
poleon iii. are fresh in the public recol-
lection; bnt though they have been more
than once repeated, the Emperor of the
French still lives. We are many Of us
old enough to remember the plot OF
Fieschi to murder Louis Philippe: ana
to recall the days when the Duke OF Wei
lingten found il necessary to secure his
windows with thick iron shutters Not
all the virtues of eur own Queen, and
the love which is borne her by her sub
iects, have protected her, at all times,
from attempts upon her life. In lS40,
mailman shot at the Queen and Princess
Royal; and at another time, q Captain OF
dragons assaulted her Majesty by horse
whipping her.
The successful attempt in recent times to
assassinate q statesman Is the case OF MT
Perceval, shot by Bellingham, in the lob
by of the House of Commons, III ioll.-
Bellingham acted from a sense of perso-
nal injury. A Russian merchant, he at
tributed his ruin to Perceval, and took
this means of revenge, At still later
date, within about twenty years, an at
tempt was made on the life Of Sir Robert
Peel; and the ball intended for him struck
and killed his private secretary. Mr.
Drummond. In 1920, was formed the
Cato street conspiracy. with Thistlewood
at its head. for the purpose of assassinat-
ing the whole British cabinet, at dinner
at Lord Harrowby's house in Grosvenor
square. The conspiracy was discovered
by government spies, and Thistlewood
was executed for the crime. About
twenty years before this time. madman
named Hadfield fred from the pit OF
Drurys Lane Theatre at George III. in
his box, and. missing his aim, was tried
for treason but not convicted, on account
of his irresponsible condition. He was
kept in confinement for safety This was
the second attempt on the life Of that
king. Margaret Nicholson having, in
1896, attempted to stab his majesty with
knife as he was alighting from his car.
riage near st James Palace. The wo-
man was treated as a maniac, and con-
fined in Bethlehem Hospital.
Whatever may have been the motive
for the assassination Of President Lin
coin and the attempt on the life of Sec
retary Seward, they can but inspire hor
ror in all right minded persons every
where So far as the cause of the South
is identified with these acts, it will suffer
in the estimation of the world. There
is nothing to be gained to any cause by
so horrible a crime as assassination, and
much to be lost One of the effects will
be- in this case, to exasperate the North
against the South, and to cause it to in
sist on much harder conditions, when
the question of final reconciliation comes
to be discussed, than it otherwise would
have done