Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-09-10
MR.. GEORGE w. M'cooK.

MR.. GEORGE w. M'COOK'
The Democracy of this county
took occasion to call a Democratic
Mass Meeting in this town OF
Thursday evening, during the time
the County Fair was in progress
1t was favorable time to secure {
respectable audience, and after ad
vertising in large posters that the
meeting wonld be addressed by such
democratic worthless as Col. George
w. McCook, Col. Connell, AMI a
gentleman by the name of Van
Trump, they succeeded in getting
the Court House well filled. The
meeting was addressed by Col. Geo.
w. McCook 1--WE suppose the prefix
Col is merely complimentary. J
If the other gentlemen were pres
ent, prudence dictated to them the
prOpriety Of keeping silent, lest
their views upon Finance, &c, might
conflict with the speech made by
Col. McCoOk; for in this political
campaign there is such a contra
riety Of sentiment among gentle,
men protesting to preach Democ-
racy, that there is danger for two
or three of them to speak from the
same rostrum in immediate success,
sion, for fear Of running into each
other, and upsetting each others
doctrines and policy.
But to the speech. The Col as.
sumed that the public debt was $2,-
500, 100000, and not 40, 500, 100000
as Judge Briggs stated it to be in
his speech at Baldwin's Hall, Green.
field, two or three weeks since. ---
This debt, the Col: said with a great
amount Of egotistical certainty
could never be paid in any other
way than upon the Democratic pol.
icy; every other plan for payment
would fail, and the debt would pos.
ltively never be paid unless the De.
mOeracy came into power His
plan for paying the debt-that is the
$50 bonds--was by taking up all
these bonds, calling in oil the issues
of the National Banks, and issuing
the full amount Of these 5-20s in
This, Col. McCook
argued, was the only way the ma
tional debt could ever be paid
though MFR. Seymour, the Demo
cratic candidate for President,
thinks differently, and says ttat the
Indebtedness OF the Government
must be paid in accordance with
the terms and spirit Of the con
tract.
He was opposed to funding any
portion of the debt upon any terms,
)r extending the time Of payment {
beyond the present. lie regarded
The extension Of the time for special {
payment as horribly unjust, and ]
said the system would entail a debt (
upon our children and our chill |
lren's children, that they could
never pay, and assumed that the {
policy Of the Union party was to /
cave to posterity nothing but a i
national debt that would crush them /
20 the earth If an enormous ma [
.ional debt was the only Inheritance ,
his generation proposed to hand {
lown to posterity, It would be an
boon to be sure. But
Lhis is not true. We propose to
cave the future generations Of this
broad, free land, free government
"A government rescued from the
yrasping power Of ambitious, bad
nen--men who sought to destroy
he Government established by the /
'athers Of the Revolution. We pro.
pose to leave to posterity heritage, (
.he value Of which cannot be esti-
mated In dollars and cents a her ]
Itage that has cost this generation
he lives Of hundreds Of thousands
Df the best men Of our land and ma
lion. All over this continent at
his day may be seen loyal, brave,
hearted men, who have sacrificed