Resumption.

DEMOCRATIC.	REPUBLICAN.

1872—A speedy return to specie payment is demanded alike by the highest considerations of commercial morality and honest government. [Plank 8.	1872—* * * Our excellent national currency will be perfected by a speedy resumption of specie payment. [Plank 13.
1876—We denounce the financial imbecility and immorality of that party, which, during eleven years of peace, has made no advance toward resumption, no preparation for resumption, but instead has obstructed resumption, by wasting our resources and exhausting all our surplus income; and, while annually professing to intend a speedy return to specie payments, has annually enacted fresh hindrances thereto. As such hindrance we denounce the resumption clause of the act of 1875, and we here demand its repeal.	1876—In the first act of Congress signed by President Grant, the National Government assumed to remove any doubts of its purpose to discharge all just obligations to the public creditors, and solemnly pledged its faith to make provision at the “earliest practicable period for the redemption of the United States notes in coin.” Commercial prosperity, public morals and national credit demand that this promise be fulfilled by a continuous and steady progress to specie payment.
1880—* * * Honest money, * * * consisting of gold, and silver, and paper convertible into coin on demand.	1880—* * * It [the Republican party] has restored, upon a solid basis, payment in coin of all National obligations, and has given us a currency absolutely good and equal in every part of our extended country.