Accept my best wishes, and believe me, dear Sir, faithfully yours,
Charles Sumner.
To Thaddeus K. Sasportas, Esq., Columbia, S. C.
FINANCIAL RECONSTRUCTION THROUGH PUBLIC FAITH AND SPECIE PAYMENTS.
Speech in the Senate, on the Bill to Fund the National Debt, July 11, 1868.
We denounce all forms of Repudiation as a national crime [prolonged cheers]; and the national honor requires the payment of the public indebtedness, in the utmost good faith, to all creditors, at home and abroad, not only according to the letter, but to the spirit of the laws under which it was contracted. [Applause.]—Chicago Platform, May, 1868.