Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-12-31
sympathy wIsh the South.

Among the valuable cries Of the Republi-
cans, with which they have endeavored 70
drown every honest eliortto call the North 10
a sense Of their danger, none has done such
good service nor been used with such On APP
parent admission of its propriety ~ the words
which bead these remarks. No matter wat
q mans affiliations wore-he might have new
er seen fhe Southern country, may not have a
relation or friend there, may not own stick
of property, may have all his iutimacies, his
affections, his ties, nay what generally creates
a mans opinions, his interest in the North,
and yet Il he lifts up his voice in condemna-
ton of one act Of the Administration, ha is
''a Southern Sympathizer" Now we have
naught to say Of that inhuman and worse than
autocratic tyranny Of public opinion, which
prevents q man, otherwise known to be good
and true, u he honestly entertains an opinion
ON any subject from saying so We do not
think the South right in its secession, and
therefore the deprivation Of the right OF say
ing so, does not affect us in this respect. But
We do and ever shall stand up for the right
Of any man TO say--if he says it honestly and
in decent language. whatever in his heart he
believes
But what does affect US now is this insane
commonplace---thi trebly worn platitude of
cises IA freemen's right of criticism on his pub
lie servants. We are of the North; and it is
because we see all that we love and value hero
going TO destruction and ruin, that we cry
aloud and warn our people of the breakers. 1t
is because we see one by one,the landmarks
by which the rights of individuals and socie-
ties were regulated and restrained, broken
down-because we see or think we see, our
dearest rights taken away from us because
we see the rich inheritance of our fathers
squandered by set of preHgates and our
selves, without our seeming aware of being
rapidly revOlutioni2ed from nation of free
men into sycophantio crew of false Worship
ers. 1t is because our own North suffers,
our Northern homes, our Northern owe, our
Northern pockets, our Northern lands, and
our Northern-libertiesa all suffer that We grieve.
There our sympathy hes, and there tho sym
pathy of thousands who have cried out and
warned as VIC have done, and have for their
love Of their iather-land been nocked MS
Southern Sympathi2ers' Southern sympa-
thzers indeed we know fully we'll who they
are they are the wretches who by perss
tent Gourse of malicious falsebool sowed halo
and distrust in onrhappy countrywide refused
that which the Fire Brands of he South do
sired to he refuscd-concliatior and compro-
mse.--who furnished the faggos to which the
Southern flame was applied. This ran two
Congresses for Jefferson Davis and so acted
ms to place the Northern land N the dilemma
OF being obliged to sacrifice. i.s own freedom
or its own territory. The bet friends OF the
South are Greeley Sumnei and Lovejoy.
They are the true "Southern Sympathizsrs,'
for had they had n true, hearty love for tho
North in their bodies they would never have
thus ensured, as they have cone, her aillction
aud misery.
But these cant slang tpthets of party
which has nothing else o. which it can rely,
are losing their force. P,ople are beginning
to see that "'tis not so pam as the old Hill
Of Howth-that n man las his belly full of
meat because he talks with victuals in his
mouth" The force of these denunciations
are dying when it is SEN how feeble are the
utterers Of them. To $50 the language of
Sydney Smith, "The INST approved trash and
the most trashy camon are found to DO utter
ly powerless. Two-peiny taunts and trump
cry truisms have lost their destructive omnip-
oteacc, and the exhausted commonplace man
and the afflicted fool moan over the ashes of
imbecility, and sFew flowers on the urn Of ig.
norance" Let us har no more from nboli-
tionists of "Southeri Sympathzers -Phiia-
dephia Age