ou are. They
don't want the gold at all and we cannot put it on them. Why, my
countrymen, United States notes may now travel the circuit of the
world with undiminished honor, and be everywhere redeemed at par
in coin. They are made redeemable everywhere, and at this moment
the greenback is worth a premium on the Pacific coast and in the
Hawaiian Islands, and in China and Japan it is worth par; and in
every capital of Europe, in Berlin, in Paris, in London, an American
traveling may go anywhere in the circuit of the civilized world,
and take no money with him except United States notes.

"Well, now, General Ewing was mistaken. Well, why don't General
Ewing come down and say 'I was mistaken?' [A voice, 'He will come
down.'] Yes, after next Tuesday he will."

On the next day I spoke at Springfield to an audience nearly as
large, following the general lines of my Columbus speech. On the
following day I spoke at Lancaster from a stand in front of the
town hall, in plain sight of the house in which General Ewing and
I were born. I spoke of General Ewing in very complimentary terms,
said we had been intimate friends from boyhood, that our fathers
had been friends and neighbors, but that he and I then found
ourselves on opposite sides of a very important question. I
expressed my respect for the sincerity of General Ewing's motives,
but believed that he was thoroughly and radically wrong. I said
I wished to state frankly how he was wrong, and to what dangerous
consequences the fruit of his errors would lead, and I wanted the
people of Lancaster to judge between us.

On the Saturday before the election I spoke in Massillon. By some
misunderstanding I was advertised to speak on that afternoon at
both Massillon and Mansfield, but, by an arrangement subsequently
made, I spoke at Massillon to one of the largest meetings of the
campaign, and then was taken by special train to Mansfield in time
to make my closing speech in the canvass. It was late in the
afternoon, but the crowd that met to hear me remained until my
arrival, of which the following account was given by the local
paper:

"But the grand ovation was reserved for our distinguished townsman,
Secretary Sherman. There were acres of men, women, and children
and vehicles at the depot to meet him, and as he stepped from the
cars he was greeted with the booming of cannon, the music of half
a dozen bands, and the loud and long acclaim that came from the
throats