On the question whether United States notes ought still to be a legal tender, I referred him to my report, in which I said: "The power of Congress to make them such was asserted by Congress during the war, and was upheld by the Supreme Court.
Sherman refers to his report asserting Congress's power to designate United States notes as legal tender during the war.
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Let us, my friends, unite in electing him President of the United States.
The policy of this country ought to be to make everything national as far as possible.
I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
I wrote an adverse report, but it was suppressed in the committee.
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