In December he made an elaborate speech on the finances, in which he analyzed Mr. Pendleton's greenback theory.
In 1867 Mr. Blaine made a trip to Europe, returning in time to fight against the greenback heresy, of which he was the foremost opponent.
So it is with the greenback man; he says, "When we were running in debt we had a jolly time--let us keep it up.
But, says the greenback man, "We never had as good times as when we had plenty of greenbacks.
If the greenback doctrine is right, that evidence of national indebtedness is wealth, if that is their idea, why not go another step and make every individual note a legal tender?
The greenback is not money--never was; never will be.
The greenback will be redeemed, we expect to redeem it on the first day of January, 1879.
When the greenback fades away there will fade with it honor from the American heart, brain from the American head, and our flag from the air of heaven.
When hard times came, men were tempted by the dreams of cheap money, and the greenback craze was abroad.
The Greenback heresy had sprung up with rapid growth.
The greenback issue went there with the positive, resolute support of a powerful candidate, and of a formidable array of delegates who knew precisely what they wanted.
In the House, with their Greenback allies, they had more than thirty majority; in the Senate they had six.
This was a distinct adoption of the Greenback heresy.
It resuscitates the obsolete dollar which Congress entombed in 1834, worth less than the greenback in gold, and yet to be a full legal-tender.
Yet on the three leading national questions of the last fifty years--the Negro question, the Greenback question and the Free Silver question--he has challenged and antagonized the general direction of that party.
Nor does it mean that there are no more Democrats and that the Democratic party is dead in the sense that the Federalist party is dead or the Whig party is dead, or the Greenback party is dead, or the Populist party is dead.
It was confronted at the start with the Greenback heresy, and the candidacy of the Greenback champion for the presidency, Mr. George H.
As it was, but for the Greenback plank in the Democratic platform and the indiscretions of General Blair, they might have triumphed.
In 1876, during the "greenback craze," General Garfield and Mr. S.
It was the same which appeared toward the end of the nineteenth century in the United States during what became known as the "greenback craze" and the free "silver craze.
A greenback is a piece of paper with a promise on its face and green on its back, declared to be money by Act of Congress, but which the Government refuses to pay.
Every greenback is red with the blood of fellow-citizens.
The convertibility of the greenback is for the present suspended; but when paid, it must be in coin.
Between the bond and the greenback there is an obvious distinction, doubly attested by the Act of Congress creating them both,--for they were created together.
The National Greenback Convention met at Indianapolis on May 29th, and nominated for President General B.
The Greenback movement and the Granger movements were appeals to government to prevent what the pioneer thought to be invasions of pioneer democracy.
The Granger movement, theGreenback movement, the Populist movement, Bryan Democracy, and Roosevelt Republicanism all found their greatest strength in the Mississippi Valley.
The greenback movement of Ohio and the eastern part of the Middle West grew into the fiat money, free silver, and land bank propositions of the Populists across the Mississippi.
Now, when I whisper in your all-comprehending ear that the leaders of this Greenback Party are anything but Republicans, you will grasp the point.
Believing that their ills were due to the scarcity of money, they opposed the policy of contraction and even launched the Greenback party to carry out their principles.
Evidently the greenback controversy was reviving in a new garb.
As the Republicans were dispersing, the Greenback convention was assembling.
The ups and downs in the gold price of the greenback from week to week and from day to day during the war were largely due to this cause.
I, however, saved my five-dollar greenback note, which was safely ensconced inside my sock at the bottom of my foot.
I had a five-dollar greenback note inside of my sock at the bottom of my boot.
De palm of my hand sho' begin to itch for dat greenback money.
This greenback is no surer of being redeemed in gold than is my confidence in the golden era of legal enfranchisement for woman!
The Republican, Democratic, Anti-Monopoly and Greenback parties equivocated, although the last two nominated Benjamin F.
At the expiration of his first term he was unanimously renominated, and after an exciting campaign was re-elected by a majority of eight hundred and forty-nine over the combined Democratic and Greenback vote.
Mrs. Fowler secured the adoption of the plank by the Greenback convention.
Both the Labor and Greenback parties have uniformly recognized woman suffrage in their platforms.
In 1889 the Greenback and the United Labor State Conventions unequivocally indorsed the franchise for women.
The Greenback candidate was entitled to one vote from that family, and he did not get it; and the Republican candidate was entitled to three ballots, and he got only one.
The Greenback and the People's parties have welcomed women as assistants.
The old gentleman was conscientious and consistent and, although he was a man of strong Greenback convictions, he actually voted the Republican ticket in order to represent his daughters.
The Greenback party, the Labor party, the various Socialist parties, and other reform organizations of a political character have made unequivocal declarations for woman suffrage and welcomed women as delegates.
The Greenback agitation[1] found some followers, and in a few scattered rural districts Greenbackers or Greenback Democrats were nominated.
In a few districts the white men ventured to run two tickets, and in a few cases the Greenback candidate won.
The Greenback craze had created a distrust of the capitalists of the East.
It carried the entire audience, and left in that region hardly a shred of the greenback theory.
One could see the supports of the Greenback party vanishing as he went on.
Drawing money one morning in one of the large banks of London, I happened to exhibit a few of the new National greenback notes which had been recently issued by our Government.
It was different from any other that I had known, for the ``Greenback Craze'' bloomed out as never before and seemed likely to poison the whole country.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "greenback" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
