The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1861-09-21
Symr athizing with the South.

Of every true Democrat and Union man. She
disun onists in the North say:
He is a seccssionist and symputhizcs with tho
South
OF every such man the seeessi9nists in the
South say
He is an aboitioniSt and sympathizes with
the North
The charge implied is as unjust and false in the
one case rs the other. a tEue unOnst is no moro
a seccssonst in the North than he is an abOlition-
list in the South, and uice ucrsa,
Naturally the true Democrat and unionist feels
more immediate sympathy with and for his own
scction but he has deep and abiding sympathy
for every section and every State in the Union.
As long as the loyal States treat the so called Sc
cetcd States as members Of the great Union-tam-
lily, and not permit that membership to he served,
50 long every true Union man will feel the
same sympathy and tender regard Tor the people
Of each OF those States in their collective capa-
city. that he wOuhl feel for an errinS brother oy
sister whom the family were seeking to call back
to love and duty.
He is sympathzeF with the South,' says
the Northern fanatic. with eyes glaring vengeance
fearing lest his scheme Of etecting permanent
disruption of the Union, or the humiliation of
the white race in the South, should be thwartcd
by the reaction of just humane, and The demo
cratic and Union sentiments in both North and
| South
Mind, yOdr Northern fanatic does not accuse
you of sympathizing with rebels. That he is
too wary and cunning to do; it would not in fact
answer his purpose but he says you sympathize
with the South; as though it were crime for an
American to sympathizc with any people on Gods
footstool, and especially with those Of the same
race, religion and government, but living in an
other end Of the family mansion.
| Go down in the sunny South, and you will find
the fre-caters playing the same game as the
Northern disunion fanatics, only With greater
and more desperate stake. But his chief object
is to cut off all sympathy with the North, rs our
Northern fanatics would harden us against all
sympathy with the South
AS long as there remains sympathy between
the parts, there is 4 prOspect--a hope that the
wound may be healed; and the more genial and
healthy that sympathy becomes, the brighter the
prospect, the more certain the hope for the re-
union of the discovered parts.
This the fanatcal disunionists of the North
and the ire-eating secessionsts at the South nn
dcrstand full WELL and hence they labor jointly
and earnestly to cut of all sympathy between
the parts of the one body Union-to render
them callous to each other, that separation,
and finally modification and death Of the entire
system may ensuo.
To say that a Northern man sympathses with
the South that is with the Southern people ass
whole or to say that Southern man sympnthi-
yes with the North, that is with the Northern pe0-
pie, is the same as saying that he is Union man
or q true Union No man can be q genu-
inc Union man without such sympathy nor can
the Union over be saved without its constant,
free and full exercise. Arms may accomplish
much in dispensing armed rebellion, rs we'll us in
defending rights violently ass,led; but they
cannot restore confidence where it has been i'm
paired or rekindle love where it has been lost
THIS can only be done by mutual good Offices
by the manifestation in the North of real sympa.
thy for the South and Ivy the like manifestation
in the South, toward the North. In this way and
this only. can the Union be saved.
Ohio Statesman.
a L. Al Al,