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.
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Fundamentum est autem justitiæ fides, id est, dictorum
conventorumque constantia et veritas.--CICERO, _De Officiis_,
Lib. I. Cap. 7.