The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-01-04

sISu tne party 10 loathsome dungeon
until be died, forgotten by all the world.
An Imperial uhdSe will answer the same
purpose In Russia. The most faithful
subject of that amiable autocracy may lie
down in the evening to dream of his fu-
ture prosperity, and before daybreak be
will tind himself between two dragons on
his way to the mines in Siberia. In
Turkey the verbal of the Sultan or any of
his powerful tavorites, will cause IA man
to be tied up in sack and cast into the
Bosphorus. Nero accused Peter and
Paul of spreading a 'pestIlept superst.
tion," which they called the gospel He
heard their defence in person, end sent
them to the cross. Afterwards be tried
the whole Christian Church in one body,
90 a charge Of setting fire to the city, and
he convicted them, though he knew not
on y that they were innocent, but he him.
Stlt had committed the crime. The judg-
mcut was followed by instant execution
be let loose the Pr@torian guards upon
meD, women and children to drown,
butcher, aud burn them. Herod saw fit,
for good political reasons, closely affecting
the pernaueuce Of his reign in Judea, to
punish certain possible traitors in Bethle-
hem by Anticipation. This required the
death Of all the children in that city un-
der two years.of age lie issued his ''gen.
craI ordcr,' and his Provost Marshal car
ried it out with so much alacrty aud zeal,
that in one day the whole land was filed
with mourning and lamentation,
Macbeth UNDERSTOOD the whole phloso-
ply of the subject. He was an unlimited
monarch. Ills power to punish for any
oiielue "a Sor no oiienee at al was as broad
AS tuat which the Attorney General claims
for blmSe!t' aud his brother officers under
the United States, But he was more eau
tous how he used it He had danger
GUS rival, from whom he apprehended the
most serious peril to the "lite of his Gov
ernmeut." The necessity 10 get rid of
Elm was plain enough, but he could not
aE ord to shock the moral sense of the
world by pleading political necessity for
murder. He must
"Mask the business from the common eye"
Accordingly he sent for two eutcrpris-
ing gentlemen, whom he took into his
service upon liberal pay-"made love to
their assistance;' and got them to deal
with the accused party. He acted as his
own Judge advocate lie made a most
elegant and stirring speech to persuade
his agents that Banquo was their opprcs-
sor, and had "keld them so under fortune"
that be ought to die for that aloue.-
When they agreed that he was their eLe-
my, then safd the king:
80 is he mine, and though could
With bare faced poVer sweep him from my sight
And bid my nOW avouch it; yet must not
For certain friends, who are both his and mine,
Whose loves may not drop"
For these, and 'many weighty reasons''
besides, he thought it best to commit the
execution of his design to a subordinate
agency. The commission thus organized
in Bauquo's case sat upon him that very
night at convenient place beside the
road where it was known he would be
travelling; and they did precisely what
the Attorney General says the military
officers may do in this coun,ry-they took
and killed him, because their employer
at the head of the Government wanted it
done, aud paid them for doing it out of
the public treasury.
But of all the persons that ever welded
this kind of power, the one who went
most directly to the purpose and object Of
it was Lola Montez. She reduced it to
the elementary principle. In 1913, when
she was minister aud mistress to the King
Of Bavaria, she dictated all the measures
Of the Government. The times were trou.
blesome. All over Germany the spirit Of
rebellion was rising; everywhere the PEG.
pie wanted to see brst-class revolution,
like that which had just exploded in
France. Many persons in Bavaria dis
liked to be governed so absolutely by la
! dy of the character which Lola Montez
bore, and some OF them were rash enough
to say so. Of course that was treason,
and she went about to punish it in the
simplest of all possible ways. She
bought herself pack of English bull
dogs, trained to tear the flesh, and mangle
the limbs, aud lap the life-blood with
| ehCoe ooSNo az hci uCclsj sue uldTCHeu up
and down the streets of Munich with a
most majestic tread, and with sense of
power which any judge advocate in
America might envy. When she saw any
person whom she chose to denounce for
"thwmting the Goyernmelt" or "usug
disloyal language her obedient follow
ers needed but a sign TO make them spring
at the throat Of their victim. 1t gives
me unspeakable pleasure to tell you the
sequel. The people rose in their strength,
smashed down the whole machinery of
oppression, and drove our into uttcrmost
shame king, strumpet, dogs, and ALL
FROM that time to this neither man, wo-.
man, nor beast. has dared to worry Or kill
the people of Bavaria.
All these are but so many different
ways of using the arbitrary power to pun,
ish. The variety is merely in the means
which tyranDical government takes to