Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-09-05
sympu,hfsing with the South.


OF every true Democrat and Union
man, the disunionists in the North say.
''He is secessionist and sympathises
with the South"
OF every such man the sccessionist in
the South say:
"lie is an abolitionist aad sympathees
with the North"
The charge implied is as unjust and
false in one case as the other. "A truo
unionist is no more a secessionist in tho
North than he is an abolitionist in the
South, and vice VerSa.
Naturally the true Democrat and nm
ionist feels more immediate sympathy
with. and for his own section; but he has
a deep and abiding sympathy for every
section and every State in the Union
AS long as the loyal States treat the So
called seeded States as members of the
one great on-family, and not permit
that membership to be severed, so long
every true Union man will feel the same
sympathy and tender regard for the peo-
pie of each of those States in their collec.
tive capacity, that he would feel for an
erling brother or sister whom the family
were seeking to call back to love and duty.
"He is sympathizer with the South"
says the Northern fanatic, with eyes glar-
ing vengence, fearing lest his scheme of
eflecting permanent disruption Of the
Union, or the annihilation of the white
race in the South, should be thwarted by
the retraction of Just, humane, and the
democratic and Union sentiments in both
North and South.
Mind, your Northern fantic does not
accuse you of sympathizng with robels.
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 sympathize with any people
on Gods footstool, and especially with
those of the same race, religion and gov
crnment, but living in another end of the
family mansion.
Go down in the sunny South, and you
will find the fire-eaters playing the same
game as the Northern disunion fanatic,
only with greater and more desperate
stake. Bnt his chief object is to cut off
all sympathy with the North, as our
Nothern fanatic would harden us against
all Sympathy with the South.
AS long as there remains sympathy
between the parts, there is prospect-a
hope that the wound may be healed; and
the more genial and healthy that SYM
pathy becomes, the brighter the prospect,
the more certain the hope for reunion of
the discovered parts.
This the fanatical disunionist of the
North and the fire-eating secessionists at
the South understand full we'll 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 fl
nally modification and death of the en-
tire system may ensue.
To say that a Ncrtheln man sympa-
thzes 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 peo-
pie, is the same as saying that he is I'm
ion 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 as
sliled; but they cannot restore conf
dence where it has been impaired, or re-
kindle love where it has been lost. This
can only be done by mutual good offices
by the manifestation in the North OF
real sympaty for the South, and by the
like manifestation in the South, toward
the North. In this way and this only,
can the Union be saYed.= Stateiman.