The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-08-15
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Ex-CenR I essman Grew, Of Pennsyl'
~yanla, Gives HIS ,AllsgtapSe u
GreeIey-An Eloquent Tfihnte "a
the Reform Candidate.
The Hon. Galusha A. Grov, 70,
twelve years Republican Congressman
from the Wilmot district Of Penusylva'
MIA, and Speaker Of the House during
his last term Of service, has formally
repudiated Grant and declared for Gree.
ley. In letter recently addressed to
Colonel A. K. Mcclure, chairman Of
the Pennsylvania Liberal Republican
State Committee, after stating, bis inar
bility to take the stump because Of
throat disease and generally impaired
health, be says:
am for Greeley for President. He
has devoted "busy life" to earnest
thought and study on all the grave
questions OF government policies, and
the equally grave questions affecting
the welfare Of labor and the develop
ment of the industrial interests OF the
country. Penniless, friendless aud
alone in a great city, struggling for
years against adverse fortune, he has
achieved unprecedented success. Edit.
ing the recognized organ of the old
Wing party Gn which he hal been
school, d from boybood), be was among
the first in advocating its abandonment
and the formation OF the Republican
party. when he had to choose between
duty to his convictions or fealty to party
organization. For thirty years with
each setting sun he has boldly uttered
his convictions on the worlds
public doings of the preceding twenty
four hours, whether political, socisl,
moral or religious, yet never pandering
to the vices or iollies OF his time.
During that whole period, Crusader
like, he has champ ioned the universal
manhood Of the race and the equal
rights of all mankind
No one living has devoted more brain
work 10 the cause OF Univeral liberty,
or the elevation of fallen and crushed
humanity, and few, if any. have endured
more of the ieers OF gilded prejudice
or the SCOTS OF bigoted error. Yet to-
day the leading ideas for which he has
struggled so long with unyielding te-
nacty are incorporated into organic
law and are stamped iudelibly upon the
pillars of the Republic. And now,
when great political party, through
its regular organization, selects such a
man for its standard.bearer, | hail it as
the political dawn of brighter and
better day. The Democrat who can
lay aside his party prejudices Of a life
time and accept the foremost and ablest
representative OF the ideas of his po-
litical opponents, gives the best evidence
he can furnish that he is willing to let
the dead past bury its dead, and to act
in the living present.
When the people OF one section Of the
Union, despite the education of their
entire section, rally around the stand.
ard of a man whom, for quarter OF a
century, they have been taught by all
their teachings to hate as their deadli-
est foe, they give the best evidence that
with them the animosities Of the past
are buried forever. If not in this way,
how, then, is the Union ever to be re-
stored to peace and lasting reconcilia-
ton! A victorious party in a carnival
of blood cannot, 10 this age, convert
itself into a party of perpetual hates.
When the vanquished are ready to close
the bloody chssm and bury forever the
auimosities engendered in the deadly
strife, returning over the graves of their
dead ones, and through the bitter mem
cries Of the past to grasp in traternal
concord the hand OF the victor, where
is the patriotism that would refuse the
proffered offer?
In what other way can we ever ex.
pect to have our people homogeneous
in ideas and institutions from the Gulf
to the Lakes, and from ocean to ocean,
with one Union and one destiny now
and forever Are these grand results
OF less consequence to the Republic than
the ambitious wishes OF one man strug'
Cling TO prolong his term Of office:
Yours truly, GALUsHA A. GROW.