Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-04-26
of the Cincinnati Commercial.l
A Tremendous screed from
Ogilvie Byron Young.
zit Comes out from the Camp OF the
Traitors.
His Fearful and Wonderful Derunciation
ofthe Mont gomery Despots-The
Language Exhausted,
GAIT HOUSE, LOUISVILLE, |
April 9TH, 1861,

April Oth, 1871,
EDS. Co1g You will not be a little
amused as we'll as startled, to learn tina
Ogilvie Byron yourg> so recently one O.
the most radical and uncompromising O.
secession orators, whose speeches have
been SO widely and extensively circula
ted as models Of secession eloquence
has abandoned the Southern Junta anc
denounced jeff. Davis & Co. in un.
measured terms. In letter written tC
lady of this city, which l had the
pleasure to peruse and the permission
to transcribe a part, he says:
"You will be as much delighted a:
astounded to learn of my conversion
and redemption from the bonds of polit.
ical death and iulquity. 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 IN
NATURAL and UNNATIoNAL MONSTER
SECESSION, in all his naked ugliness
and hideous deformity. 1t is SPLENDID
cheat-a magnificent humbug-a stupen-
dous lie--a gigantic deception, destined
to dissolve before the light of reason
and good sense, "like the baseless fabric
Of dream"
Il would to. God all men could sec
and comprehend this movement, and
the aims and purposes Of its originators
as [ do now; then would they be swept
off in the twinkling 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.
"llad the great enemy OF mankind re
yealed himself to our first parents in the
Garden Of Eden, in his true character
had the spear Of Ethural unmasked the
naked deformity of the diaboic fiend,
our first parents would have shrunk in
horror and disgust from mis- appalling
presence. But no, he came as the in
sinuating serpent, he presented fruit OF
all the garden. He told his glowing
story i'll honeyed acccnts-in winged
words Of celestial fancy ."iIe gained
her ear. lie won her confidence -
His triumph was accomplished. He
presented the tempting fruit-bade her
eat, assuring the unsUspecting victim Of
his 3uiic, that it was the fruit Of ali
know!edse:' That it would raise her
to an equality with the angels ',That
| it would give her knowledge and empire
and dominion over all things in heaven
and cn the earth" She heard his won
drous story with delight. She tasted
the fruit and fell from a world of hap
piness into an abyss Of misery. The fatal
catastrophe is too we'll know to ynu 20
need repetition. She who knew no sin.
no want, no woe-guarded by the minis
try of angoIs-returued to the partner
of her bosom a miserable, po!luting and
polluted thing. They wander forth
outcasts and aliens, to achieve by the
sweat of their own brow their daily
bread--wilhout habitation or home
and their bright heritage, their
beautiful Eden, is shorn of its loneliness
a barren waste; a bowling desolation.-
The figure is not inapt.' These
Southern traitors dare not reveal them
elves to the people in their real char
actel. They dare not unmnsk their
purposes were they-they would be
hurled, instantly, by an avenging 'popu-
lace, to the Guillotine or the Bastile.
at is my unwaveriug belief-and I
would not say it if | did not believe
and l would not believe it if | did not
| almost know it beyond the possibility
Of Il reasonable doubt, THAT 1T IS THE
PRIME PURPOSE AND GRAND orient of
this Junta, at Montgomery, to plunge
the South first into anarchy-this will
furnish the despots plea for Monarch
the central idea of jeff. Davis, little
soul. So soon as lie has accomplished
this, which is we'll nigh achieved now,
and shall have collected around him a
sufficient corps Of paid merconaries, he
will re-enact the ''coup d etat of Louis
Napoleon, and the country will emerge
from anarchy under a ''hloody scepter
and an iron crown" "And King Cotton
and the cotton bole -ari> tocracy, will
rule with imperious sway and lord it
over the land ," Look around, and say
if the country is not tending as rapidly
as possible to this unhappy end.
w mere are we HOW. Arc We uFIlIiuS
on the Dosphorus or the Danube? Look
to the edicts Of this pseudo o-Emperor,
passed by his venal Senate over the
heads Of the people, and say, if you can,
all is reU ''Ihe fatal lethargy of some
and the seeming Indifference Of others,
are signal Indications Of the demoraliza-
tion of the Southern States, and their
maturity to bear meekly the yoke OF
their would be masters"
"Far be it from me to say ought of
the Southern movement per Sc. 'It
was right, just and commendable. "The
South would have been wanting in self
respect and courage had she done less
than demand of the North reparation for
the past, and security for the future. -
Thus far, this movement had my heart
and my hand But the powers that
be at Montgomery, constituted as they
are of a body of uperannuated, detunct,
fire brands Of political dscord and party
infdelity, thrown of; by their constitu-
ents for infdelity to delegated trusts
Men who had outlved their Immortality
| (if they ever had any) who entertained
no honorable preferment under the old
Government, as it stood, pure as it
sprung forth from the patriotic hearts
that conceived and the valorous army
that achieved it and gave it to prosper
ity-a monument lottier than the sub
lime Pyramids Of Egypt, and they finally
hoped that it would be more to us-more
''lasting than Brass These petty ty-
rants, at Montgomery, saw that under
that Government their hopes Of political
preferment were forever foreclosed-that
they "spotted men, upon whose sinister
Drows "GOd Prinaol e!ejcst curse rested
branded bone-deep in characters ot
fire. Hence, like their exemplar-the