Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-08-22

the law Yet history shows us that as
sassination is like an immortal VIPER
that, crushed TO earth. will sooner OF
later again raise its head and lnsul us
poison into the veins Of another victim:
Canoyas Is declared 10 be the victim OF
the International Association OF Anar-
chists. 1t is alleged that the assassin
Coli, or Angiolillo, was delegated by lot
at a meeting OF the Central Association
OF Anarchists i'm London TO Kill Canovas
The same statement was made at the
time of the death OF Carnot.
1t follows. then, disguise IL as we may,
that an association OF murderers exists
lust as that one existed which decreed
that Caesar should die by the hand of
Brutus. II one viii but stop 10 think
he will see that here is another institu-
ton Of the Roman Empire which has
come down 10 US as healthy and full
hedged as IN the days when the yellow
Tiber paid ceaseiess homage 10 the city
OF the Seven Hills. thar ruled the world.
In the centuries which interviewed be-
tween the killing Of Caesar and Canovas
the hand Of the assassin has been busy.
Look az the list: Thomas Beckett. En-
perOr Albert |. OF Germany. James J. OF
Scotland. Allessandro de Medici, Cardinal
RCaton, David Rizzio. Lord Darnley, the
Earl OF Murray Regent Of Scotland, VIII
lam OF Orange. Henry III. or france
The Duke of Buckingham. Wallenstein,
Archbishop sharp, Gustavus III. Of Swe-
den; Marat, the tyrant OF the Commune;
General Kleber; Car Paul, Of Russia; the
Duke Of Parma, Abraham Lincoln Sui
tan Abdul-Aziz, Car Alexander H.. OF
Russia; President Garfield Lord krede-
.ick CayenGish and Il. H. Burke, at Pnoe-
: nix Park, and President Carnot.
These by no means constitute com
plete list OF those who have fallen VIC
tins to fate and circumstances. They are
| merely those who he'd high places on the
roll Of fame. and whose power over others
was so great. their positions such that
! 70 murder them would create terror, or
| persons whose rigid idea Of what their
cause required was productive Of torture
| and other evils 10 those whom ther
| assasslns represented.
Caesar was the victim Of Jealousy, al
! though Brutus had a fancied grievance.
| Canovas's death Is allcscd % be the d.
rect result Of the execution OF the An
| archists al barcelona.
Coming over the list OF assassinatlons
| OF famous persons the fact becomes cyi-
| dent that three weapons were the IA
vorites OF the assassins-the knife. the
| pistol. and the bomb. These three were
| occasionally supplemented by poison put
| as rule held their places as fayorites.
| All the history-reading world Is familiar
! with the death Of David Rizzio, whom
| love made the victim Of a trio of assas-
| sins. Who has not seen that famous
! painting that depicts his death at the
| feet of the woman for whose beauty ana
! love his ilic was sacrlticed-Mary, queen
| OF Scct,2
| Passing over thu earlier assassinations,
! the most notable is found in the sixteen n
/ century, when Henry ", of France
! one Of the NEST beloved OF monarchs,
! wa1 killed by Raviiac Nineteen times
| had Henry'g lif0 been attempted. but It
was not until May Il, lGit. that tho plot
against him reached a successful culml-
nation. Tho people OF Paris punished the
! assassin themselves in tho most fright
| ful manner for they fairly toro him TO
/ pieces.
The one assassination which all histo-
rian.. in a measure. justify. was the
| stabbine 70 death Of Jean Paul Marat
by Charlotte Corday, July 70. 1885 Marat
was tho conferred Of RObespierre and
| Danton Eohespierro was bad enough.
| bu. in Narat. a dwarfed body contained
! n superlatlvo amount OF viciousness and
| lust for blood. His assassination was
| during what Is Known as tho Reign OF
| Terror. which no one had greater hand
| in creating than he So frlghtful
wero his cruelties that Charlotte Corday,
quiet modest woman OF the people,
was stirred TO what tho sans culottes be-
! lieyeG genuine heroism. and to-day, I'm
tho minds o. the French people. she Is
moro saint than assassin.
The year 1850 was marked by tho as
sassinaton Of man OF whom tho world
knows but little. aud yet who did a vast
deal for that very world. The man was
Jean Bsptiste Kleber. French gene
raj, the son OF garden laborer in Stras-
burr. While at Cairo, endeavorlng
to negotiate a treaty with the Turks
Turkish fanatic who had conceived the
idea that Kleber was an enemy OF his
country, shot him. France was at that
time In state OF almost anarchy. and
for this reason the death OF man who
ranked with the greatest fielc marshals