Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-06-22
CHARLESTON CONVENTION,
M'Cook's Proposed Demand Upon
Great Britain for. :.Flgitiys Slaves,

Great Britain for. :.Fugitiys Slaves,
in Canada. 5oJ d 9g7
1t is not what politician processes
now, OF proposes to. carry out in the
future, in case he iselec5ed to an office
of honor or emolument, that you are
to judge of the man, but it. is from his
past acts and political records. Di39
Tried by this standard, we find the
gallant George w. McCook, Colonel,
f(not General of the 18th o, N. G., thai
watched rebel prisoners one hundred
days at Fort Delaware, and now Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor, sadly
wanting. He has political record,
and not very far back into the fruit
fuP' past, neither, which does not COM
mend him very favorably to the free
|dom-loving, God fearing and indie
pendant voters of this day-Who de
spise the man who on. At2 W9i
Crooks. the pregnant hinges OF the knee"
to secure the vote of the power, and
the triumph of the party and despot-
ism in the name Of Democracy!
Such political perfidy and sycophaney
did Col. George w. McCook. practice in
the National Democrats Convention,
at Charleston, South Carolina, April,
1860. In the body, to appease the slave
obligarchy and "bid high" for their
votes and influence he did not only
propose to faithfully obey the require
ments of the Fugitive Slave Law, to
run down, catch and return the negro
to bondage, but he did more, according
to the New York Times report ofthe
proceedings Thursday, April rs, 1860:
'sMeCook, of Ohio, wished the party
bound to a resolution that Great Brit
ain owed it to the United States, to re-
turn all fugitive slaves" isi7 se
There YOU have prominent act OF
Col. George W. McCook, 1860, now the
standard bearer ofthe Ohio Democracy
1871. Could the animus of any politi-
clan be more humiliating? Could the
devil himself, the father Of lies and
slavary, ask more of any Of his subjects
than Col. George W. McCook, in the
Charleston Convention voluntarily
proposed to do. ha19# - Hai
L Leading Democrats, we admit, not q
few in Congress, had previously de-
clared their willingness to turn out in
the service Of their masters, the slave.
holders of the South, help catch the
fugitive flying from an accursed bond
age. But it was left for Col. George
w. McCook, the now Democratic
candidate for Governor of Ohio-nOw
solicitor for negro votes-to tsOut.
Herod Herod, ,"-to proffer the Charles
ton Convention, and the Democratic
party ito demand of Great Britain, Amer
lean fugitive slaves in Canada, and en-
force that inhunnan demand at the
point of the bayonet4, and the sacrifice
of the peace Of the two great Anglo.
Saxon nations, of kindred blood, speak
ing the same language, and united to-
gether in interest by ten thousand so
cial, as well as political ties! ii.ag s94Al
Can such man with such a record,
receive q majority Of the votes of the
freedom lowing, God fearing voters OF
Ohio, for Governor Is there a colored
voter in the State Of Ohio, who will SO
lar forget his wrongs in the past, and
those who inflicted them upon his race,
as to vote for Col. George w. McCook,
for Governor? who was guilty in the
Charleston Convention of the double
|blunder, or Crime-(som blunders are
crimes, said the Great Napoleon )-ot
placing himself in the pitiable attitude
OF being rejected. and kicked by the
South, and despised and repudiated by
the Northi N0i mol great God, Mol
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