ll Union party measures, he wrote his name,
on the 12th of April, at the bottom of it, "Approved, Andrew
Johnson." Now, it is under that measure, and by virtue of that law,
voted for by Mr. Finck and and Mr. LeBlond, of the Democratic party
of Ohio, in the House of Representatives; it is by virtue of that
law that to-day Secretary McCulloch is issuing interest-bearing
bonds, not taxable, to take up the greenback currency of the
country. I think, then, I am authorized in saying that these
gentlemen are mistaken when they accuse the Union party of being in
favor of taking up the greenback currency and putting in the place
of it interest-bearing, non-taxable bonds.

This investigation of two or three of the leading questions
presented to the people at the beginning of this canvass by the
advocates of the peace party of Ohio is, I think, sufficient to
warrant me in saying that all of the side issues presented are
merely urged on the people to withdraw their minds from the great
main issue which ought to engage the attention of the American
Nation. What is that great issue? It is reconstruction. That is the
main question before us, and until it is settled, and settled
rightly, all other issues sink into insignificance in comparison
with it. Fortunately for the Union party of Ohio, events are
occurring every day at Washington which tend more and more clearly
to define the exact question before the people, showing that the
main question is whether the Union shall be reconstructed in the
interests of the rebellion or in the interests of loyalty and
Union; whether that reconstruction shall be carried on by men who,
during the war, were in favor of the war and against the rebellion,
or by men who in the North were against the war, and who in the
South carried on the rebellion. On one side of this question we see
Andrew Johnson, Judge Black, and the other leaders of the peace
party of the North and the unrepentant rebels of the South; and on
the other side is the great war secretary, Stanton, with General
Grant, General Sheridan, General Thomas, General Howard, and the
other Union commanders engaged in carrying out the reconstruction
acts of Congress. This presents clearly enough the question before
the people. General Grant, in one paragraph of his letter to