he devotes to that important question, which the _Enquirer_ says is
the real question, and which many of your speakers doubtless here
say is the real question, precisely eleven lines--one short
paragraph. And the pith of that paragraph is contained in these two
lines: "I am sorry that what I have to say on that subject for
publication I must reserve for some future time."

I think that this satisfactorily shows where my friend Judge
Thurman stands on that issue, and that we therefore need no longer
discuss it--in short, that, as a party question, it is abandoned by
the candidate of the Democratic party. There is another phase of
the financial question. Judge Ranney and Judge Jewett are telling
the people that it is the policy of Secretary McCulloch to take up
the greenback currency and issue in its stead interest-bearing
bonds, not taxable, principal and interest, both payable in coin at
the option of the secretary. That is true. That was the policy, and
is the policy of Secretary McCulloch. But they go further, and say
they are authorized to say that this is the policy of the Union
party. I take issue with them on that statement. They offer no
proof that it is true, except the fact that it is the policy of the
Johnson administration; and I submit to an intelligent audience
that the fact that Johnson and his administration are in favor of a
measure is no evidence whatever that the Union party supports it.
It is not for me to prove a negative, but I am prepared,
nevertheless, to prove it. The very measure which was intended to
carry out this policy of Secretary McCulloch to enable him to take
up the greenback currency with interest-bearing bonds was
introduced in Congress in March, 1866. I have here the votes upon
that question, and I say to you that the Democratic party in both
houses--all the members of the Democratic party in both
houses--voted for Senator McCulloch's plan, and that Mr. Julian,
Judge Schofield, Mr. Lawrence, all of whom I see here, and myself,
a majority of the Republican members of Congress, voted against the
scheme, and it became a law because a minority of the Union party,
with the unanimous vote of the Democratic party, supported it; and
because, when it was submitted to Andrew Johnson, instead of
vetoing it, as he did a