Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-08
Significance Of the Blow.
Netc Orleans Ttmes.

The telegraphic messages of sympathy
and coincidence that have come from the
crowned heads of Europe on the Occa-
sion of the murderOus assault upon the
President of the United States are re-
markable for the sorrow they express
and the intense interest they exhibit.
They are not the mere formal courtesies
that pass between the heads of govern
ments on occasions of state and ceremo-
nv, but they give evidence of feelings 10
which are mingled large ingredients of
intense personal interest and of that in
stinctive sympathy, which, in time of
peculiar peril or of unusual calamity,
sinks all other considerations in an anx-
ious and feverish expectation of the inn
pending catastrophe.
Such to-day, in effect, is the situation
of the kings of the earth. They tremble
as they take counsel together for the
safety of those who have been set up to
rule the nations, and who, in the light of
traditions and immemorial usage, are
held to be the Amounted OF the Lord
1t is not because kings and rulers are
mortal and are liable to death that they
tremble, but because they see them
selves seized without warrant, condemn
ed without trial, and executed without
sanction of right or hope of mercy. They
have seen, on the 18th of March, the
Gar of all the Russias, the most
absolute and autOcratic ruler upon the
earth, violently murdered in the
midst of his soldiery, surrounded by
the fierce and faithful Cossacks OF
his guard, and in scarcely more than
hundred days after that terrible spec
tacle, they have seen shot down and
weltering in his blood at the feet of the
assassin the chosen Chief Magistrate oil
the freest, happiest, most wisely con
structed and most literally governed
democratic republic ever established
upon the earth. When the despot and
the republican, the hereditary autocrat
| of barbarian hordes, and the chosen CHIEF
of free citizens are alike stricken down
by the same terrible fate, where shall
safety for the rulers of the nations bC
found2
The kings of the earth tremble, anC
the law-abiding peace.loving people Of
every country are anxious and troubled
because they are brought suddenly fact
TO face with the disOrganiZation, the
chaos, the violence, the rapacity, the
desperate ambitions, the diabohcal en-
terprlse, the incalculable miseries and
the Unreasonable horrors that can fol-
| low the murder of rulers, the destruc-
ton of organized and lawful authority
and the breaking from their founda
tons of all the restraints and barriers
that serve to keep in check the floods
of mems passions and the great
deeps of human depravity. This is the
significance of the assassination of the
rulers of nations, and most especially of
the unprovoked and fiendlsh assault
upon such statesman and patriot as the
President of the American people. 1t is
crime against all law, order, public
morals, justice, equity, popular rights
and public happiness. 1t is terrible if
not deadly blow at the very founda-
ton of American liberty, and it danger.
ously hurts every good citizen in this
broad land, and every true lover OF
liberty in the world. This is the signif.
canoe of the assassination.