They resumed specie payment.

They maintained a sound currency, amid great temptation and against great odds.
To this result our friends who were independent of party contributed no jot or tittle.
Our system differs from that which prevails in England in that it is hard to change the political power from one party to another and hard to restore it when it is once lost.

We elect our President for four years.

We elect our Senators for six years.

Therefore in determining whether it is your duty to forsake a party which is wrong on some single question you are to decide, first, whether that question is important enough to warrant sacrificing every other measure in which you agree with your party, and having every measure espoused by the other which you think bad enacted if it get control.
Second, you have not only in such cases to sacrifice every other thing you think desirable to prevent the one thing you think undesirable, but you must decide whether, in regard to that particular matter, the party you are asked to substitute in power for your own will accomplish what you desire if it get power.