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The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
ter. No slave is more entirely the subject of his master's caprices, and it is always, at last, an even chance whether he gets anything. Above all things, the execution of a will made by a potentate of any kind, is uncertain. Alexander gave his ring to Perdiccas, intimating thereby that he wished him to be his successor. All that he succeeded to, was a bloody war and a premature death. Julius CÆsar made the people of Rome heirs to his property, but he could not settle the Empire on Augustus, and that Prince afterwards worked out his own destiny. Charlemagne drew up a charter and made his children all agree to it; but it not only did not operate, but its very existence is now disputed. George II. burnt the will of his father, George I., and the will of Louis XIV., by which he endeavored to exalt his illegitimate children, at the expense of the Regent Duke of Orleans, utterly failed to be carried into effect. The longest will we ever saw is that of the Duke of Aragon, the