Show regicides and political assassins BY janiks HENRY it is a remarkable fact that there have been more Ht tempts on the lives of royal personages rulers ai d prominent officials during tho iago hundred years than ab any other period of history this fact ia explain sd in more way a than one but thu chief reason seems to be that great personages aro less well gui rd ed now alian aliey used to be but fanatics have lived in all agea and omo of the worst political and royal occurred more than two hundred years ago the two henrys of france were iliin by bigots who bopery to reach heaven by killing kings whom they considered to ba enemies of their church in those days kings were truly regarded as the anointed of the lord and it remained for the rev alution to disabuse peoples minds of this to tho ancient rant about the lawfulness of slaying tyrants for tho good of mankind from that giroo kingly and political murders have been frequent and scarcely a in europe has been allowed to reign long without having his life threatened indeed tharo has been as many as forty attempt or threats to anko the lives of royal personages and rulers during the inot forty years considerations of compassion for men or unwillingness to beldere in the existence of human wickedness in a positively diabolical degree eiph t the assumption that all regicide a and political a sins are more or less insane but the truth of the H thal the number of lunatics or semi lunatics is more than counterbalanced by an array of desperate and unscrupulous wretches like boint like john wilke booth like max bloedel ll like glovanni Passau ante perhaps cheri was something in tant an insurrection in italy would follow the revolution in france which tho killing of napoleon would bring about there amny ulo have ible in llie notion of young blind who made an attempt on the lile ol 01 ahat the great hop bof the prussian borics was an 10 german unity but the more recent lean made on men alomi deaths could hardly political iral all the in Itus could not prevent alie azaro from succeeding emperor alexander the death of the emperor orGen nany would only alevato the crown prince to ibo throne and he i umi of uncommon energy the dynasties of spain and italy would not be by ibur dering tin reigning thero would bo no anal and permanent change created fall thea at hud been a ft the if general pardo abil abl fact that roen alit are ro orally murder are tuen talty incapable of reasoning |