Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-09-10

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the brave"
The Republicans propose thai
. this generation shall pay fair pro
. portion of the debt necessarily in
Cured for the purpose of enabling
them to hand down to posterity the
best heritage a father can bestow
upon his soma united, free Gov
ernment, an asylum for the oppress
ed Of this and all nations upon the
broad earth; and a posterity that
would complain of having to pay
the few remaining dollars that
might be due in consequence of the
war that secured to them the bless
ings of a free government, would
surely be a debased, ungenerous,
degenerate posterity. We should
not want to acknowledge relation
ship to such posterity. Did our
fathers, who were not born when
this Government was snatched from
tyrants and established by our faith
ers' fathers, complain of the debt
they had to pay for ;he establish
ment Of our national governmen 7
Up to the late rebellion the Gov.
ernment was cheaper, in a money
point of view, to the generation that
succeeded that Of the Revolution,
than it was to the Revolutionists |
Now if we extend q good portion
mot all, for nobody proposes to
extend the payment of the whole
debt, Of the public debt, bearing
4 per cent instead of 6 per cent
interest, it will be less burdensomeI
to future generations to pay than
any war debt this country has ever
had to pay. If posterity is true to
it's own interest, the country will
remain free, happy and prosperous,
and vastly more able to pay the
debt than we are at this dqy, just
after having come out from a four
years bloody war for the glorious
heritage we have gained for our
selves and posterity, for whom Col.
McCook sheds such monstrous croc-
edile tears. His wonderful sympa-
thy for posterity is merely a false
pretense; there is not one single
spark of genuine humanity in it.
In his harangue about Govern
mont bonds, he made what he sup
posed to be a decided hit, by swell
ing himself up magniloquently, and
putting some logical questions to
his wondering Democratic hearers.
Said he:
"Did you ever hear of a govern,
ment bond volunteering in the ar
my2 Did you ever hear of gov
ernment bond being drafted ? Did :
you ever bear ofa government bond !
being wounded in battIe2 Did you
ever hear of a government bond be- Q
ing killed in battle ?" :
The only reply we have to make ,
10 this kind of argument against
The just payment Of government
bonds is this Bonds were issued
in good faith by the Government,
for the purpose Of raising means
with which to carry on the war for
the salvation Of the Union, and to
pay such gallant soldiers as the !
rather and three brothers Of G. W.
who fought valiantly, and {
ell either in battle or by the hands
)frehel assassihs. He--George w :
McCook-in the beginning Of the |
var, proved himself unfaithful to his t
Government and his duty as an !
gent OF the Governor of Ohio, and :
,ave his influence to the Vallandig-
lam anti war Democracy of Ohio.
These men who didn't want the war .
0 be q success, during the time Of u
he war, Of course never were fa- y
orable to any means adopted by y
congress for the purpose of enab- %
ng the Government to carry on r.
10 war and completing a final vic, u
Try over the rebel armies. Wheth- tC
: Geo. w. MeCook was one of II
lese anti bond, anti soldier paying al
leaks, we leave the public to g
Idge by his war history, and the &C
1ecches he is making in this cam. OF
nign. II
The Colonel had a great amount ct
skoddy sympathy for the poor ie
Icn of this country, who, he aver II
ID, were ground down to the earth ai
nder the enormous weight of taxa Il
on the Government was packing ca
pom them, Why anybody who te
ID not know better, would suppose at
'om his speech that the poor men n'
'ho had nothing were paying all III
nc millions of taxes he complained
{ so bitterly, for the support of the Ii
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