Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-05-03
A Converted Secessionist Blows on the
Conspirators.


The seccssionists have bad an cnthusias-
tic advocate in Kentucky, named Ogilvc B.
Young, who has been much petted by the
conspirators, but has become disgusted by
close acquaintance with jeff Davis and the
other leaders and has returned to his allegi-
ance to the Union. In published letter
confessing his mistake he exposes and de-
nounces the conspirators with admirable in
dignation. His opinion of Davis's ultimate
object is shared by many Union men in the
South. Mr.. Young says -
"You will be as much delighted as astound
ed to learn of my conversion and REDEMPTION
from the bonds of political death and iniauity.
My conversion has been as sudden, but no
less genuine. than that of ST. Paul, who de-
clared himself the greatest Of snncrs-such
am l. But the scales have fallen from nv
eyes, and now see this most unnatural and
unnational monster, Secession, in all his naked
ugliness and hidcous acformty. 1t is a
splendid cheat--a magnificent humbuc-a
stupendous liza gigantic deception, des-
tined to dissolve before the light OF reason
and good sense, like the baSeless fabric of a
dream. 1t ismy unwavering bcIief--and 7
would not say it if | did not belicve-and |
would not 5elieye'it if ! did not almost know
it beyond the possibility of reasonable
doubt-that it is the prime purpose and
grand orient Of this Jnnta at Montgomery to
plunge the South first into anarchy-this
will furnish the despots plea for monarchy
the central idea Of JEFF Davis's little soul. So
soon as he has accomplished this, which is
wcll-nigh achieved now, and shall have col
lected around him a sufficient corps OF paid
mercenaries, he will re-enact the coup d etat
of Louis Napolean, and the country will
emerge from anarchy under bloody scep-
ter and All iron crown" And king cotton
and the cotton-bale arstocracy win rule with
imperious sway, and lord it over the land
Look around you. and say If the country is
not tending as rapidly as possible to this un-
happy end.
Far other and darker motives than those
which influenced me melted them to the un.
hallowed work. ] wanted my rights under
the constitution, in the Union: and unless
those rights had been conceded and reycr
enced, wanted to fight, il need be. for their
in the Union, under the consti.
tuition. This was my plan, which conceive
will be readily conceded far more patriotic
and polite than that adopted by the Jmmor.
tai Ten Of Montgomery. II would have left
NA'S ''''ss~S - u''PusS Nv DOtn
parties. We might have then met concilia-
ton with neutrality-suspicious. with or
ganizatiOn-c0ncert with CONGREGATION
with action. The dmende honorable would
have been made, and long years of peace and
would have thrice doubly blessed
this unhappy land. But no, these mischiev-
GUS men cared not for the perpetuity Of the
and the public veal, as their
acts abundantly attest. They must reign or
ruin-and they madly rush on to the consum-
nation Of th ir diabolical purpose-the over
the government, and the erection OF
q monarchy upon it's ruins. These wicked
men at Montgomery have nearly run their
course. In tn. midst of their carnival flust
and internal saturnalia of a disrupted and
bleeding country. the ominous hand Of fdesti.
ny is now writing upon the wall Of their
guilty orgies Meme, meme, tekxl upAnrsin. -
Verify, verify. terrible fate awaits these de-
stroyers Of a nations repose and authors Of
realms decay They will fall beneath the
very storm which they have gathered. Like
the authors Of tke Reign of Terror, in France.
they will be condemned BY their own laws
and perish by the hands Of their own friends" /"