American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-07-20
Southern SympatlhizcEs.

Through all the various changes that
have marked our history during the pro-
gress of the war, it is singular to observe
that there has been visible sympathetic
cord running between the rebels of the
south, and the political wirc-workers who
manage the affairs of the Democracy of
the north. Why is it, that now, when not
only the national health but even the ma
tional life itself is in peril, there is no sign
of sympathy no word of encouragement
from our Democratic ncighbors? ? The
answer is easy their former masters, or
" southern brethren" forbid it. On pain
of accommodation they require them to
assist in discouraging the people in their
efforts to 4" cocrce sovereign states" In a
Richmond paper, Of recent date, they
are told thatit is their interest to do their
very utmost to weaken the Federal finance
in short, to extinguish the war altogeth-
er" True to the wishes and interest of
their southern friends, they are indeed
doing every thing to discredit and weaken
" Federal finance" Look for instance,
at the Union HerdM of last week read
carefully an editorial in that paper under
the caption of The Currency" and see
whether it would be possible for that pa
per more efficiently to ser7e the cause of
the rebellion, than it is doing, Its whole
effort seems to be to induce its readers to
believe that the paper issues of the Gov
ernment were all wrong. " One reason"
says the HeralE "why paper money de-
prcciates so rapidly, is more because of the
vast volume of it which the Administra-
ton has set afoat, than in the ability of
the Government to redeem it, although
that is, growing small by degrees, and
beautifully less The Abolitionists, fail
ing to take warning by the past-by crash
and reputation Of paper issues after the
wars of the Revolution and of 1912, and
after the suspension of 1888, 80, 40,
and again in 1854 or 1855, have not only
issued paper by hundreds of thousands of
dollars, but have established National
Banks still further to initiate the curren-
cy." And again it says " Government
could have borrowed money upon its bonds
just as we'll without increasing the vol
umc of paper money, as with it." What
course could bepursued, better calculated
to injure the Federal creditand thus obey
the instructions of theirfriends than this i?
Truly they have waited not too patient
ly for four years, trusting to regain power
and profit which they but lately held to
be Democratic inheritance" and ike
Absalom they exclam o. that | were
made Judge in the land" But this will
never be. No party ever enjoyed the
public confidence to greater extent, than
did the Democratic party and none so
basely betrayed that confidence Know
this, therefore, Oh Copperheads that ye
shall surely die and not livel The shad-
ow shall not turn back on the dial inyour
behalf. A just God has decreed it, and
no human ingenuity can avert that decree.
Go on then in your work of detraction.-
Throw odium and suspicionon every mea-
sure of the Administration, question its
every motive, but recollect that you have
been tried and found wanting.
No Administration ever weutinto pow
er under more favorable auspices than did
that of Mr. Buchanan-that old Federalist
and none ever betrayed its trust so wan
tonly and wickedly. 1t found an over
flowing Treasury, the credit of the Gov
ernment unlimited The old flag still
" floating in all its native glory, aud, if
the rights of the private citizen were not
secure at home, they were still respected
abroad. But at the end Of that Admin
istration how changed 1.-The same hea-
yens were indeed over our heads: the
same ocean rolled by our feet, but all else