Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-03-28
ASSASSlNATl0NS.
Grimes That Have Changed the His
tory Of the World.

tory of the word.
Step by step throughout the worlds
history assassination has been a factor
In determining tue course OF events
and In molding the life OF nations
Frequently the assassln's weapon
which sent a ruler to death has sent |
upon the worlds stage successor
whose career set irrevocable miestones |
unon the pathway of the peoples of the
world. Especially was this true IN
those days when conquest was the
ending star of the rulers of the NPfld.
Probably one of the most important
and early assassinations was that OIL
Philip of Macedon, which occurred IN
the wear 33G b. C. Not only did 1t ter
inmate the career of one OF the most
remarkable men of his time, but II leu
IN the accession of Alexander the
Great. an event which very likely
would not have taken place at all had
pbilin continued TO rule and had him
self selected the successor TO his throhe'
Pbillp of Macedon then was at the
height of his power, and the battle OIL
Cboeronea had made him the undisput-
od master OF Greece. When leaving
the fheater in which his sister had been
united I'm marriage TO Alexander King
of Epirus. man sprang toward the
r1ler and thrust n sharp, short SWORD
into his side. As the assassin ran To-
ward a swift horse his sandal caught
in IA vine stalk, and his pursuers killed
him with their spears and tore him 10
pieces.
Olvmplas, his former wife, was SAID
TO have aided in the conspiracy. 1nls
J assassination. one of the earliest IN
| noint of time, bore n strong reSeu-
blance In its surroundings to mat
which claimed President Abraham LIN
coins life. In both cases there was an
individual murderer, the scene was
tbeater the act was done with incredl-
Bile audacity in the presence OF a large
concourse of people, and the murderer
was crippled by mlsstep after the
fatal blow.
In the history of ancient Rome there
stands out one political assassination
which marks the first occasion on rec
ord in which the conflicting economical
interests of different classes in a re-
public were settled by resort 10 tue
weopon of the assassin. This was the
murder of Tiberius Gracious, WHICH
soon was followed by the enforced sui
eide of his brother, Caius GracchuS
This deed was the direct result of the
formers attempt to enforce an agrarlar
law passed as an act of justice to the
poorer classes Of Roman citizens.
, In the turmoil that attended the vot
ing of the tribes Tiberius was struci
down to death by one of his own col
leagues, tribune of the people. INF
, chaDter OF death was written in ID
re. History has dealt at length witt
> the assassination of julius Caesar oil
r the ides OF March-the 10th OF TN
2 month-in the year A b. c., and OF IN
imnort of this event IN the history o
I ancient Rome.
AT the time of the assassination o
= julius Caesar the Roman people ma
o reached degree of perversity and dc
n generacy almost impossible of moder
!. comprehension. His death had mos
q demoralizing effect upon the people
The hand Of the master who mign
2 have controlled the unruly masses an
9 restrained the degenerate nobility la
q palsied in death. Later events Ia
o their handspring from this source, an
o the years from 81 to 6S A. d. wer
g marked by the assassinatlons OF It'd
:. RUS. Callgula, Claudius and Nero
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