The Greenback heresy had sprung up with rapid growth.

The same influence which had resisted the issue of legal-tender notes during the war, when they were deemed vital to the National success, now demanded that they be used to pay the public debt, though depreciated far below the standard of coin.

"_The same currency for the bond-holder and the plough-holder_" was a favorite cry in the mouths of many.

This plausible and poisonous fallacy quickly took root in Ohio, whose political soil has often nourished rank and luxuriant outgrowth of Democratic heresies, and it came to be known distinctively as "The Ohio Idea." The apt response of the Republicans was, _the best currency for both plough-holder and bond-holder!_ Mr.Pendleton was peculiarly identified with the _Ohio Idea_.

If not its author he had been its zealous advocate, and had become widely known as its representative.