The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-07-22

sultan Is protected in his palace and
when he goes abroad, by y strong mill.
tary force and the unceasing vigilance
OF u multitude Of spies. Vet the same
measures of defence did not avail to
save his two immediate predecessors
from death or deposition. And here
Wo may recall tho striking fact that,
sood after the death of Abdul-Aziz,
} one aStute and resolute man found
, means to push his way through the
: files of soldiers and attendants into the
| Council OF Ministers, and attendants
into the Council of Ministers, and With
} his own hand slew three Of the CHIEF
officials before he was overpowcrcd.
The uselessncss of preventive meas
lres against assassination has been re-
pcatedly attcsted in the most civilized
countries of western Europe during tho
past three centuries. For some years
after tho murder of the Due dc Guise
the life Of Henri III. was perpetual
vigil, and the most complete and care
iui precautions were taken to secure
him against the vengeance of II league.
Yet, III 1859, he perished by tho dagger
OF Jaqucs Clement, whose religious
ianatieism had boon adroiuy wrought
upon by II sister OF the murdered Duke.
tlVe years before, in tho Low Coun-
tries, another bigot, Balthazar Gerard,
had frustrated all the steps taken to
shield tho person of William tho
Silent. and, penetrating the house in
which he lived, succeeded in killing
the liberator of Holland. This case is
startling one, because the murdered
man was forcwarncd and completely
on his guard. For four years Phillips
offer OF 5000 crowns and u patent Of
heblllty TO any one who would rid him
OF his enemy had stood open, and had
led to several attempts on Williams
life, III ono of which ho had been
dangerously wounded. SO, too, in
1910, the attendants who surrounded
Henri Nv. us he rode through Paris OH
his way to take command of his army,
were powerless to ward Off tho dagger
! of the assassin Ravaillac. Nor could
all tho agents of the Lieutcnant- g ene-
raj of Police and tho horse and foot
soldiers of the royal household prevent
Damiens from levelling vicious,
though, as it happened, not mortal,
blow ut Louis XIV.
If we look mt tho most remarkable
attempts upon the lives of sovcrcigns
during the present century, We shall
find that in almost every instance the
assailcd person was encompassed with
guards, yet owed his Escape from death
! less to their intervention than to acci-
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| the assailant. Such precautions did
| not hinder the wouiGl-be assassin from
approaching the person OF Alfonso
Nll., or from reaching the very door
OF the carriage in which Iumbert /.
| was seated. If the presence of armed
attendants could suffice to avert assassi-
nation, tho recent desperate assault
upon tho German Kaiser would not
have been risIcd, and the samo thing
| may be said of the fatal attack on
Alexander H., who, it will bc rcmcm-
bercd, was returning from II review,
and was accompanied by II military es-
cort. Louis Phiiiippe, too, was on his
way to n military pageant and was sur
rounded by officers OF the royal staff
when he so narrowly escaped death
from the IFicschi Internal machine,
through whose explosion some forty
persons were killed or wounded.
Again, it was pure accident that RES
cucd Napoleon III. from the brsini
bombs, for the police of Paris had
! failed to arrest the conspiracy, of which
they had heard rumors, and tho body
guard of the Emperor could not pre-
vent the tragedy which followed.
In the long record of attempts on tho
lives of public pcrsonagcs, tho most
perfect analogue to the crime of
Guitcau seems to bc the assassination
| of Spencer Pcrceval, the head of tha
| British Ministry in 1909. Tho real OK
ccutivc chief of the United Kingdom
is, of course, tho Prime Minister, and,
like our President, he may be said to
incarnatc the deliberate will of the
nation though his representative char
| actcr WAS by no means 80 perfect be-
| fOro the first Reform bill rs it IL now
But it is a curious fact that pcrccyal,
like Mr.. Garfield, was shot by dis
| appointed Office seeker, one Belling-
| ham, an English trader, who alleged
some injury at the hands Of tho Rus
sian Government, and who seems to
| have become half crazcd by his failure
to procure redress from the British
Ministry. Bcllingham was tried, CON
victed, and hanged for tho common
law crime Of murder, and such will no
doubt be the fate of Guitcau, should
| the Presidents wounds prove fatal
But, notwithstanding tho shock OF
horror occasioncd by Bcllingham's
mad decd, British public opinion
would not sanction the proposal to
guard against the repetition Of such
crimes by surrounding the person of
the Prime Minister with an armed re-
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