EMPEROR WILLIAM.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 42, 20 July 1878, Page 2

EMPEROR WILLIAM.

(Daily Alta California.)

Tho idea entertained by certain revolu-tionists—would-be-reformers, after their own limited or otherwise revolutionary notions that by assassination they can accomplish what they aro pleased to consider reform, is as false in theory as it is wicked in conception and cruol in execution. The killing of Ceasar, instead of reforming the Roman Commonwealth and saving it from Imperialism, simply turned it over at first to au ambitious triumvirate, and subsequently to the unlimited authority of ono man, after desolating wars and the socrifico of tho best blood and finest minds of Rome. The attempts made upon the lives of the two Napoleons only served to clinch more firmly the hold they had upon tho allcgianoe of the people : for assassination, or the attempt to commit it, is so obnoxious to the sentiments of men gonorally that the deed, accomplished or attempted, Borves but to clinch the moro firmly tho respect, allegiance or love of thoso already frionds of thoassaultod one, while it almost certainly, creates a sympathy near allied to love withthoso previously indifferent or oven inimical. The ossassiuation of President Liucoln had this effect. It did no possible food to the cause which incited the act. 'ew, indeed, wore they of the Confederates, who did not at hoart condemn tho horriblo and cruol act, und many who, up to that time, had folt no kindly sentiments toward Mr. Lincoln, from that moment began to weigh him and his acts with loss of the rancour, hatred and injustice of their previous sentiment*. The assassin's pistol opened tho way to just criticism.

And so will the erad attempts up'" l the life of the old Emperor of Germany, whether they prove a success or not, open the hearts of the German people to the exercise of the love which his long service! to his country, his kindness and his successful reign, compel them to appreciate, and which these assassinating attempts force them to feel. The old Emperor has spent a long life in the service of his country. At the early age of sixteen we find him in the Prussian Army, taking a conspicuous part in the wars and battles which resulted in the overthrow of Napoleon and the freedom of Prussia from the thraldom Napoleon had imposed upon her. He has ever been essentially a soldier, risking in his old age, seventy-five years, as in his youth, sixteen, his person freely in battle to the bullets of the enemy. For a long time he was unpopular, partly becauso of his rigid discipline and organization of the Army. But when that army was called upon, and and gave exhibitions of its prowess, its triumphs redounded to the credit of its organizer. His biographer, in Johnson's "Treasury of Knowledge." August Nieman says that "he is a man of sound and elevated understanding, steady, calm, energetic, always prepared for great decisions, willingly listening to the counsels of wise mon, without jealousy of the fame of his servants and friends, and endowed with a happy faculty of recognizing such characters and talents as might be useful to his plans." In personal appearance he is tall and dignified, with a kind expression and a winning address." Such is the man whom the wild, wicked and senseless creatures have leagued together for the purpose of creating revolution by assassinating this old soldier. King and Emperor. To no profit to themselves those insane creatures have been making these attempts upon tho life of such a man, situated as he is with respect to his countrymon, so old that by tho laws of nature he must soon pass away without tho aid of an assassin's bullet, and with a son and heir himself a soldier and capable of rilling the place his father occupies with sagacity and strength. Should the assassin-con-spirators succeed in killing the Emperor, and Bismarck and Von Moltke, there would still be left a new Emperor, and many an able statesman and soldier to supply the places made vacant by the assassins' bullets. The German people are not assassins, although thore may be political assassins amongst them: men banded together for the puoposo of bringing about a new exhibition of Socialism in its repulsive forms, as twiee in the city of Paris, when the sans culottes were the law givers, judges and oxecutioners, with Robespiorre at their head, until he was left headless. But there was something of manliness even in the taking of the life of their sovereign, Louis XVI. They gave him a trial: they did not shoot him from a secret room as he passed by. Emperor William had always trusted his life to the German people at all times, as he had so often risked it before the enemies of his country. And his subjects have generally regarded it as sacred. But the abominable tonets of the secrot socioties, whose only god is Chaos, have spurned the idea of respecting anything as sacred, and have sunk to the miserable degradation of incorporating assassination as tho first principle of their creed.—June 5.