The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-04-20
A Converted Sinner...HOvv n SecesSiOnist
Saw the Error Of his Ways and Re-
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A Converted Sinner...HOW a SecesSiouist
Saw the Error Of his Ways and Re-
pented.
The notorious 0gve Byron Young, who has
been petted by the Secessionists as one of their
most effective champions, has forsaken them
In very cautions letter, addressed to lady in
Louisville, Kentucky, and sent to the Cincinnati
Commercial for publication, Mr. Young tells his
experience in a startling style. So heartily dis
gusted is he with the hypocrisy and rascaiity of
the traitors that he expands in the vigor of his
Indignation till the English tongue becomes
quite inadequate for the expression of his loath-
ing. Hear him:
HIS CONVERSION.
You will be as much delighted az astonished
to learn of my conversion and redemption from
the bonds of political death and iniquity Ny
conversion has been as sudden, bm less genuine,
than that of Saint Paul, who declared himself
:" the greatest of sinners such am l. But the
scales have fallen from my eyes, and non see
THIS most unnatural aud ao.ationdl mo,.ster Seces-
sion, in all hsnaked ugliHess and hdeous deformity
1t is splendid cheat--a magnificent humbug-
a stupendous liza gigantic deception, destined
to dissolve before the light of reason and good
sense, like the baseless fabric of DREAM"
THE AIMS OF THE sEcEssIoNlsTs.
1t is my unwayering belief-and would not
say it if did not almost know it beyond the
possibility Of a reasonable donbt-thdt 1t is the
prime purpose and grad orient of this Junta at
Montgomery to plunge tie South first into anarchy
-ttis ,cN furnish the despots plea for monarchy
tile centre idea of JET. Daris' soul So soon as
he has accomplished this, which is well nigh
achieved now, and shall have collected around
hlm sufficient corps Of paid mercenaries, he
will re,enact the coup d'etat of Louis Napoleon,
and the country will emerge from anarchy under
"bloody sceptre and an iron crown" And
King Cotton and the cottOn.bale aristocracy
will 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 unhappy end.
SPOTTED MEN. sfa.
These petty tyrants at Montgomery saw that
under that government their hopes Of political
preterment were forever foreclosed-that they
were "spotted men," upon whose sinister brows
Gods primal eldest curse" rested-branded
bone deep in characters of fire Hence, like
their exemplar-the. fiery Lucifer-they re5elled,
and would have revolted had they, like him,
been in Heaven itself. Far other and darker
motives than those which influenced me melted
them to the unhallowed work. l wanted nv
rights under the Constitution, in the Union and
unless those rights had been conceded and rev.
erenced, wanted to fight, if needs be, for their
maintenance in the Union, under the Constitu-
ton. This was my plan, which conceive will
be readily conceded far more patriotic and poll
tic than that adopted by "the Immortal Tenn of
Montgomery. 1t would have left the issues in
dispute approachable by both parties We might
have met Cancellation with concilation-or-
ganization with rganization-concert with con
cert-action with action. The amanda honora-
Die would have been made, and long years of
peace and prosperity would have thrice doubly
blessed this unhappy land" But no, these mis-.
ehieyous men cared not for the perpetuity of the
Government and the public veal, as their acts
abundantly attest. They must reign or ruin
and they madly rushed on to the cOnsuEmation
of their diabolical purpose-the overthrow of
the Government, and the erection of monarchy
upon its ruins. ri
THEIR COURSE NEARLY RUN.
These wicked men at Montgomery have near
ly run their course. In the midst of their car.
nival of lust and internal saturnala of disrupt
ed and bleeding country, the ominous hand of
destiny IS now writing upon the wall of their
guilty orgies" Meme meme, tekel uptars;ar
Verify, verify terrible fate awaits these des-
troyers of nations repose and authors of a
realms decay They will fall beneath the very
storm which they have gathered. Like the
authors OF the Reign of Terror in France. tney
will be condemned by their own laws and perish
by the hands of their own friends
A PECULIARLY FIERCE DENuSc1ArIoN.
VI such foul set of unconsecrated traitors.
be it written upon my tomb, that lived and died
in nothing their DEBTOR 81 have washed INV
hands of them forever, signing that my country
ever should have been cursed by such inhuinaaiii
monsters of turpitude and depravity. ~ p'9'5'7s
III there is rolled up in the caginous sheets
OF hell more exquisite piece of cold bloodpd,
black hearted treason than Jefferson Davis. the
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