The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1861-09-28
sympathi.lng with the south.

vi every true OenOCtut anu Union man
the DiSunioniSts in the North say:
:. lie is n SeceSsionist, and sympathizcs
with the South"
Of every such man the Secessionists in
the South say:
"IIc is an Aboltionist, and sympathizes
with the North"
The charge implied is as unjust and
false in the one case as in the other. A
true Unionist is no more SeceSsioniSt in
the North than he is an AbOlitiOnist in
the South, and rice rersn.
Naturally the true DcmDcrat and Cnien-
list feels more immediate sympathy with
and for his own section but he has
deep and abiding sympathy for every Sec
ton and every State in the Union. As
long as the loyal States treat the so-called
seeded States as members Of the great
Union family, and not permit that men,
bership to be severed, so long every true
Union man will feel the same sympathy
and tender regard for the people Of each
Of those States, in their collective capac-
ity, that he would feel for an erring bro
ther or sister whom the family were seek
ing to call back to love and duty.
"Hc il sympathizer with the South"
says the Northern fanatic, with eyes glar-
ing vengeance, fearing lest his scheme Of
effecting q permanent disruption Of the
Union, or the annihilation Of the white
race in the South, should be thwArted by
the reaction Of just, humane, and Demo-
cratic and Union sentiments in both North
and South.
Mind, your 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 we're crime for an
American to sympathize with any people
on Gods fOOtstOo, and especially with
those Of the same race, religion and gov
ernment, but living in another end Of the
family mansion.
Go down in the sunny South, and you
will 6nd the tirc.eaters playing the same
game as the Northern dsuniOn fanatics,
only with . greater and more desperate
stake. But his chief object is to cut off
all sympathy with the North, as our
Northern fanatics would harden US against
all sympathy with the South.
AS long as there remains q sympathy
between the parts, there il . prospects,
hope that the wound may be healed and
the more genial and healthy that sympa-
thy becomes, the brighter the prospect,
the moro certain the hope for the reunion
of the discovered parts
This the fanatical DisuniOnistS of the
North and the fire-eating Secessionists at
the South understand full well, and hence
they labor jointly and earnestly to cut off
all sympathy between the parts Of the one
body-the UniOn-to render them callOus
to each other, SO that separation, and, fin-
ally, modification and death Of the entire
system, may ensue.
To say that q Northern man sympa-
thizes with the South, that is, with the
Southern people as whole, or to say that
Southern man sympathizes with the
North, that is, with the Northern people,
is the same as saying that he is Union
man or true UniOn.saver. No man can
be- . genuine Union man without such
sympathy, nor can the Union ever be
saved without its constant, free and full
exercise. Arms may accomplish much
in dispensing armed rebellion, as well as
in defending rights violently assAiIsd, but
they cannot restore confidence where IL
haslbcen impaired, or rekindle love where
It has been lost This only can be done
by mutual good OffiCes-by the maniFes-
tatiOn in the North Of real sympathy for
the South, and by the like manifestation
in the South toward the North. In this
way, and this only, can the Union be
saved.-[OAiO St0tesmGM.