The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1864-05-12
PROM THE THIRTEENTH v. vi.
BANpouRsvlLLE. April e0lh, l00t.


MN. EpIroR:-Y Yesterday Lieutepa an;
George ioldcrby was eOp,urcd in this
place, having slipped through the pick
OF lines iu Che darkness of the night
He was captured in the House Of one
OF his rebel relatives by Lieutenant Wm.
Shannon, who hsd received orders from
Colonel Brown to search the house
Ho had made an effort TO conceal him
self by placing himself crOsswiso at the
head Of bed, where rebel ingenuity
had excrtod itself for the purpose of
Oluding the impertiuenco, aS tho rebels
said, of the Federal officer, but, all 10 no
purpose, his hiding place was soon
Iouud out, and Mr.. Reb was quickly sur
rounded by loyal bayOnrls, and on his
way to tho Colonels Headquarters
where his description was taken and
soon afterwards was peeping through
the iron grating Of tho iOlOns cell, a
punishment by no means commensurate
to the turpituds Of the crime, of which
he is guilty, viz; Treason. Your cor.
respondent discovering that he was a
man Of some considerable intelligence,
and knowing that no had taken and did
feel deep interest in lhia most wicked
rebellion. soon visited him in his seclu'
dcd apartment, where we had some con-
versation with him, on tho various ques'
lions, involving the reasons held up by
these cOnspirators. in justification Of tho
efforts they are making TO break up the
government. In the course Of my re.
marks, stated that the leaders Of this
rebellion, did not only design the csIab.
lishment OF o Southern Confedcacy up
to MOson and Dixon's line, but they
purpos 10 subvert and remodel the entire
system Of Government, handed down TO
US BY our ancestors, that their object
was 10 destroy constitutional liberty for
ever from this continent, and TO build
upon its ruins a limited monarchy, in
which capital should own the labor. and
that certain privileged class should
control the government Of the nation.
To all OF which 10 assenLod, stating that
he was emphntically in favor of such a
government, aud that our government
was too ~eok, and had proved a failure,
aud that the best evidence Of that fact to
his mind, was the existence Of the pres
ent war. Here we discover at once the
deep laid scheme of the Oligarchy Oftho
South. Negro slavery has insprcd thOm
with the belief, that because nothing
else but an unmitigatcd dcspotism can
rob tho black man of lis freedom AMI
reduce him to n level with the brute,
that, therefore. our free and bonifcont
government built upon tho cardinal doc
trines oil our holy christianity and tho
natural rights Of men having failed to
cloth them with absoluteism not only
over. the poor down-troddcu slave, but
also over the white man who has been
so unfortunate as 10 have descended
from an ancestry that happened 10 be
too poor TO furnish him with these hu'
man chat,leS, has proved failure and
must be destroyed. So you see at once
what we may expect should these slave.
mongers Of the South triumph in their
present struggles for the mastery. A
system of drouuge would be established
at once; you and your children would be
sold al the auction block as the poor Af
rican has been for tho last 400 years, TO
the highest bidder. They would rivet
chains upon the poot and unfortunate,
as CALLING aud oppressive as was ever
conceived of by the most inhuman ty-
rants that have ever scourged the race
of mankind. You may think that al
this is imaginary. but | tell you the am
bitiOn and cruelty Ofthe human heart is
The same as in other days, aud II II is
unchecked by the people whose liberties
it would rob them them Of. it will
again establish It's throne upon the ruins
of free government, baptized with the
blood Of "sloughtercd innocence" and
maintain It by tho sweat and toll Of
those whose imbccility had suffered
themselves to bo reduced TO the condi.
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