...necessity, immediately after the first battle of Bull Run, the darkest day the government ever saw, and had pledged gold in return — for then we paid gold to meet all our obligations — if Salmon P. Chase , on the 18th of May, 1864, when called upon to say whether we should pay gold for the gold we had received, broke the faith of the government, if he was one of those repudiators and scoundrels and kn...