New-York tribune., 1878-05-13
TILE ELLrLNG or ELNGS.

Horace Walpnle in his fits of republican aiec-
tation used to talk of that least bad murder tho
murder of king; - and old Quin, the actor hung
up a fac-simile of the death warrant OF Charles J"
with the inscription, major Charta.' Some regi-
cidcs. like HarmOdius and ATistogeiton, who killed
pi,istratus, are pociically immortal. Wherever
there have been kings there has always been a
craze of king killing; and Hoedel and krneger, who
tried TO shoot the Emperor William, on Saturday
last. were doubtless a. crazy the old woman who
fired NJ Gc,ro, H., or he young man who sought
,o .ay Victoria 1t is to be noticed that the assas-
AIMS or wonld-ba assqssirs OF princes have rarely
been person, of the FIRST ORDER and ofcnest desYcr-
oic ,dyeuturrrs or irresponsible fanatics. Tho
most remarkable exception to the rlo occurs in the
cosc Of julius Cesar who not only " died with
dicrityr but by diguIGcd hands. Men Of states
ru9ulike qualities, however great may be the
tcnrtatou 10 resort to rcgclda, have usually been
too wise 10 yield 70 it, Napoleon used to complain
that Pitt kept in his pay IN Paris n band of muir
dcrars with designs upon the imperial person, but
nobody credited the accusation. II was not, and
If never had been, the English way Of making war.
II il remarkable how many attempts upon royal
lives have had no political significance whatever, or
at least no VOL defined political purpose. his was
true of the murder OF our own beloved President.
II was the act Of ignorant men who did not COM
prehcnd that they were fatally compromising the
very cause Of which they fancicd Themselves to be
the champions.
The lunacy which impclcd the attack upon the
venerable Emperor Of Germany is stated to have
been OF religiOusly fanaicai character. This may
be supcriiclaly true. There may have been trace
OF unhealthy picty in the deed, but thorough in
yesfigatiou, we have no doubt. will show the inllu-
ence of the communstical doctrines which have un-
settled the minds of men in Germany, rs IN France
aDd Russia Practically, all extreme notions work
together, however widely they may be separated in
theory Really, restive hatred of authority of law
aud of order is at the bottom of all such diabocal
enterprises. man may talk religiously, and be the
rcddest of communists at heart. 1t is possible that
Max Hoede did not himself precisely comprehend
his own motives in firing az tho Emperor. He had.
doubtess learned III the beer shops of Lclpsic that
al monarchs are villains, from whose presence il
wouId be an act Of plety to rid the world and he
may have said his prayers as he loaded his pistols.
The confusion of his fcverish politics did not admit
of logical distinctions. II il this identical lack of
fine least c0ngruity Of which we have 40 often had
IN complain in considering the communicated
movement in this most democratic of lands. There
il nothing so misCheVOus aS pOinteSs dissaistac-
tiou There ~ nothing more dangerous than loose
and unsccntiic gencrazatlOns of the social sort IL
/, because the communist does not know exactly
what lac wants that he is so often found toundcrug
in 4 slough Of bloody denominations. Anything is
more grateful to him than peace; anything is more
acceptable than the sight OF Others prosperity, or it
NAV be- OF Others greatness, 1t Is bad enough that
men shoula be richer than he il, should work in
WAYS which seem to him easier than his owu-the
state TO which Providence has called him; but that
a mortal like himself should he king or kaiser is
simply intocrable. And in order to set that wrong
right at once and forever he buys a revolver.