The State Rights Democrat

"We favor the payment of the public debt of the United States as rapidly as practicable; all moneys drawn from the people by taxation, except so much as is requisite for the necessities of the Government, economically administered, being honestly applied to such payment, and where the obligations of the Government do not expressly state upon their face, or the law under which they were issued does not provide that they shall be paid in coin, they ought, in right and in justice, to be paid in the lawful money of the United States.—National Democratic Platform of 1868.

Resolved, That the assumptions of the opposition that the Democratic party is in favor of repudiating the public debt, and that it is in favor of nullification and secession, are slanderous and false.—Oregon Democratic Platform of 1866.

Resolved, That good faith and justice to all demands that the public debt shall be paid in like currency as contracted, and we favor action by Congress submitting United States securities to be taxed as other property.—Oregon Democratic Platform of 1868.

We are willing to pay our national debt in strict compliance with our contracts, whether it was made payable in gold or greenbacks, but we are unwilling to do more than that; and we declare that the five-twenty bonds are payable in greenbacks or their equivalent; and we condemn the policy of the Administration which is squandering millions of money by buying such bonds at a high rate of premium when the Government had the clear right to redeem them at par.—Indiana Democratic Platform of 1870.