In view of the pledges of the American Congress when our present legal-tender system was adopted, and debt contracted, there should be no delay--certainly no unnecessary delay--in fixing by legislation a method by which we will return to specie.
Grant stresses the urgency of returning to a specie standard to honor the commitments made by Congress regarding the legal-tender system.
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