Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1861-04-18
Disguised with Secession.

Our old friend, Ogilvie Byron Young, the
sensation orator of the secession movement
in its earlier stages, has become thoroughly
disgusted with the whole affair, and comes
out from the treason. After talking himself
hoarse in the Border States, he finally went
to Montgomery to give moral, intellectual
and material aid to the Government of jeff
Davis, After watching long time, he has
at last been disenchanted, and now openly
secedes from secession. He has written a
letter to lady in Louisville, KY, which is
an extraordinary specimen of composition.
We can make room for but two extracts. He
thus announces his conversion
You will be as much delighted as aston
ished to learn of my conversion and redemp-
tion from the bonds of political death and in
i9aity. My conversion has been as sudden,
but no less genuine. than that of Saint Paul,
who declared himself the greatest OF sinners
such am |. But the scales have fallen
from my eyes,, and now see this most un-
natural and unnational Monster, SECESSION
in all his naked ugliness and hideous defors
nifty. 1t is splendid cheat-a magnificent
humbug-a stupendoas lie-a gigantic de-
ception, destined to dissolve before the light
of reason and coed sense, like the baseless
fabric of dream.
L" j would to God all men could see and
comprehend this movement, and the aims of
It's originators as + do now; then would they
be swept off : in the tacinkling Of an eye, by
the irresistible decree of one united voice.
But, like the arch deceiver of mankind, they
present not themselves nor their cause in
their true light.
He next says that these Southern trail
tors dare not reveal themselves to the people
in their real character. They dare not un-
masktheir purposes-were they-they would
be hurled, Instantly, by an avenging popu-
lace, to the Guilloting or the Bastile,"
After some more talk very much in the
same strain, he formally repudiates the Con-
federate Government and its leaders. He
does it thus -
"Of such foul set of uncor secrated trai>
tors, be it written upon my tomb. that liv-
ed and died in nothing their debtor. I have
washed my hands of them forever, sighing
that my country ever should have been cur
sed by such inhuman monsters of turpituds
and depravity. They are band of hydra
headed, tripled teDgued, cloven-footed, helI-
begotten, Heaven-forsaked set of unmtigas
ted traitors-whom, if the entire earth was a
fulcrum, and the whole Heavens a lever,
Almighty God could not, in the space of a
thousand years elevate to the level of COM
mon culprits. Ii there is rolled up in the
caliginous sheets of hell more exquisite
piece of cold-5looded, black-hearted treason
than JEFF Davis, the Devil himself would abb
dictate his throne, and fends would run
bowling from the Internal shades, to escape
the presence of monster of depravity TOO
hideous even for the damned to look upon
A monster-who, living, every patriot breast
shonld abhor, and who, when bis career of
mischief is ended, should 60 down the tide of
time with Arnold and Burr, to infamy ever
lasting. For him there is no redemption
there is no intermediate purgatory--nothing
less than damnation awaits here and hear
after"