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Identifier: civilwarechoesch00inhowa (find matches)
Title: Civil War echoes : character sketches and state secrets
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Howard, Hamilton Gay Campbell, V. Floyd, d. 1906, ill
Subjects: Statesmen
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Howard Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ious to them, but the ideas, the plans of thevictims, have not always died. Of the great Caesar, Cicero said: The tyrant is dead, but the tyranny still lives. A BLACK RECORD The record of the last 100 years is unparalleled in history, in thematter of assassinations. In England, the prime minister, the Right Hon. Spencer Percival,was shot while he was in the lobby of the House of Commons, byJohn Bellingham. In Paris the Due de Berri was murdered. He had spent a num-ber of years in Edinburgh and London, occupying his enforced exilewith plans for the restoration of the French monarchy. He thoughtthe signs were favorable, and landed at Cherbourg in 1814 and wentto Paris. The duke and duchess attended the royal theater onenight. Shortly after the close of the opera, the duke escorted hiswife to her carriage, and he returned to take part in a bal masquethat was to follow. A spectator sprang between the sentinel and thefootman who was closing the carriage door, and taking a strong hold 9 113
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U. S. SENATOR REVERDY JOHNSON, MARYLANDLATER, U. S. MINISTER TO GREAT BRITAIN Sketches and State Secrets on the duke, plunged a dagger to the hilt in the dukes right breast.He vanished in the crowd, leaving the weapon in the wound. The Duke of Parma was done to death while walking in his city.He was so unpopular that no one sought to rescue him. The deaths of Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, and WilliamMcKinley in our own country are so fresh in the minds of thepeople and the stories are so well known that any extended mentionis not necessary here. The republic was shocked from boundaryto boundary by these terrible crimes, and the criminals who com-mitted them paid the penalty with their lives. Prince Danielo, of Montenegro, was fatally wounded by a politicalrefugee at Cattaro. Prince Michael, of Servia, was attacked by three men armed withrevolvers, and left dead near Belgrade, the scene of the latest as-sassinations. Marshal Prim, of Spain, was waylaid in Madrid. The progressof h

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