Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-08
GRANT AND THE GOLD STANDARD.

The esteemed Intelligencer INDUCES
in a fit of unseemly indignation
against the Register for proving from
the words of Gen. Grant, taken from
the mouth of our esteemed neighbor
itself, that the brave and just soldier
President was not, as our truthful ana
honorable neighbor intended to show,
in favor of paying our national debt
in the dearest money metal at the
time of the maturity of the debt" but
in the cheapest" and we are shocked
at the language the gentleman of the
press" of Fourteenth street uses in
this connection, for such violent in
vective should never pass from the pen
of so good and pure an editor.
When our neighbor is checkmated in
an argument he makes haste to howl
that he has either been abused or
"garbled" This time he makes the
claim that not only he, but President
Grant, too has been garbled by his
wicked contemporary, the Register,
although the Register quoted only
from his (Pecksnif' 81 own columns
The following is the portion of Grants
inaugural in 1S69-the only portion
Pecksniff, himself quoted-which our
contemporary claims was ''garbled"
by the Register:
ITO protect the national honor every
dollar of government Indebtedness should
be paid in gold unless otherwise expressly
stipulated in the contract
This was in 1869, when the gold dol
lar was worth LESS than the silver
dollar at the ratio of sixteen to one
When President Grant. therefore, said
that ITO PROTECT THE NATIONAL
HONOR every dollar of government
Indebtedness should be paid in gold,
unless otherwise stipulated in the con-
tract" what did he mean unless he
meant that the debt should be paid in
the COIN most convenient for the gov
eminent, or in other words, the
cheapest money metal?
Wherein is Grant "garbled" in this
utterance, which was clearly in de-
Tense of the rights of the nation
against the encroachments of it's cred,
itors?
But says our contemporary 10
escape the charge of "garbling'' the
gcod man, we will quote him fully
further evidence of the Registers un-
IalrfeSs IN constituting President Grants
poslrson Is found in the fact that our
neiehbor stopped short with the above
quotation, and totally ignored the follow
irg from Grants Paris letter which fol
lowed it in the INTEL genver showing that
god was the recognized standard and re-
The whole Democratic party cried itself
hoarse over the outrage upon the consti-
tuition when the nation in its DISSERTATION
ADOPTED the legal tender note Now the
an unlimited quantity of this money in
spite of the solemn promise that above
certain amount-S400. 600. 0i0-should not be
issued. in spite of the solemn obligation
that those issued should be redeemed in
coin understood at the time to be gold
coin
AT THE TIME" said President
Grant
Come, good and holy neighbor, take
the witness stand
WHAT TINE was Grant speaking
Of? Come, look the jury in the eye
if you can-and tell us, without pre-
varication Or shutting, when the legal
tenders were issued
You answer reluctantly that the act
of February IS, 1862, authorized the
issue of s150,oo0, 600; that a second is
sue of $150,0o0,000 was authorized by
the act of July II, 1862: that a third
issue of Sl50,000,000 was authorized
by the act Of March 8, 1863