The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-09-07
Gr..en,,acks and Gold. .

,x,,o y,anublicans 10 Ohio were quite : nus
tratcdn BY speech delivered by Mr. OeLss.
~ United States senator from Illinois. de
Aid mt follow the cue of the hard.moaey
uradgrInds," and very loosely left open all
the ends Of the Repu blican policy. He spoke
ia Cincinnati on Friday evening, and put the
Republican papersinto quite dilemma. de
was in love with the greenback currency,
aud denied that It could be betsered. lie
"found In the Democratic platform that toe
"sveenback is legal tender. He thought II
"sbout time!n "When they were declared
ga legal tender he rejoiced that IL had been
"done." He added:
g After they had been placed in the hands
oe the soldiers IN payment for shc,r services
while risking their lives for their country
he could not bear TO have it SAID that toey
were tcheat and fraud. lGreat ap-
plause.] He wasn't going back on the green.
back. BE couldn't do 1t. lie wanted 10 De
frank about it, and he would not belle bis be-
lief"
This rendered the "gradgrinds :" a little
restless, and the frank senator did not say
ANYTHING 10 the evening calculated to please
them. He thus spoke Of the suspension by
the Government:
CATER 1862 gold was not paid out by the
banks. The three months men got PAID In
pold-tDon't you remember IL! and don't
YOU remember that we didn't get any after
that!' The country was out of soap. The
army must be supplied, and there wasn't gold
enou IA to do it. The Treasury notes were
first issued, and made payable in gold on de-
maud. Every body took 'cm back ana de-
1nanded the gold. The Government dldnt
bave the gold. Then it issued the green BACK
rayablc to bearer. He the speaker) couIdh 4,
stand there and say that they had been issued
or gold basis There Uas no goI@ III Tue
coun,ry to base il on. Blu, they were Issued
or the credit Of the country. They were
made ieqnl tender. They must be taken
for Il debt"
This is pretty good talk for senator.
Houcly and frank enough; but the follow
iny is the finest example Of the way states
man puts things we have for long time
seen:
sin his mind they had constitutionaly
been made legal tender. (rue speaker
here referred 10 the power so granted TO
Congress TO make these legal tenders: To
psy the national debt, provide for the public
credit 10 coin money the
power to pass the laws necessary to carry
firse mowers into eXccution.) so We can
sc,ir' money. What shall we coin it out
o.: Gu, Of gold: Not necessarily. Out OF
siiyer-copper-n ickel-.iron! Not nece>s1-
rily. The nickel contains no gold or silver,
a.d yc. it is a legal tender. Wcc'n coin the
vegetable kingdom and make it a legal ten
Ger. ADD a%e haze done ii. Every coin has
al,,y in il. Ii gold, it has silver: if silver,
j. mas copper. And yet we make it legal
Nrdtr. De never had any trouble in getting
Gnwn to .nc lcgal-tender qualities of the
s1ctntark. lie had great faith 10 it, ard be-
mved il wonld be- many scirs before the
last ont wolid be seen III the country"
Cincnkaii is rc1. Sausage and souse
have done their prettiest, and tue hard.mo.
nay people are plenty there. OGLEsBY didn't
Please them. But OGLtsBT is Il great senator,
from Illinois. He has got somewhat OF
the Winnebago in him, and is very much
an adnlrer Of the word "notwitlstand-
Ing" And so be went on his own
way. very much disconcerting the rich Rad
iealS aud imprcssing them with the idea that
there was great difficulty in making defi-
ME issue with the shrewd Democrats in the
Northwest upon the currency question.
Nr. OGLySBY did his best TO enter caveat
against the Democrats, charging that be was
better grccnback. man than they; that be-
fore the grcenback was issued they "bore it
malice" He rambled on with his love Of
crccnbacks, and declared that he did not be-
Neve there would be gold enough for re-
sumption at the time fixed for resumption,
and positively declared that Senator SnER.
MAN was TOO much of q hard-money man.
senator OGLEsBY will hardly be asked to
spak again. But he is nevertheless sena
to- Of powerful State, and very probably
speaks the Republican opinion of his consti-
tuenis. Mr. GGLEsBY's homespun ideas (; bis
"sapsucker" Illustrations; his grcenhorn"
logic, or, as he would have il, logic for
sreeuhorns," would fare better in the
country among the Buckeyes than in Circin.
Da,i. He evidently thought the Democratic
pl,,folm very smart. He knew THURMAN
did not write it. "Then," said he, "who
the devil did?" Mr. OGLEsBY and the Radi
Gals will find out on the day of election!