New Orleans Republican., 1872-08-17
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN. SATURDAY, AUGUST H. 1872

Another Liberal Reeruit-Ex-Congres
man Grow, of Pennsylvania, Gives His
Allegiance to GreeIey-An Eloquent
Tribute to the Liberal Candidate.
The Hon. Galusha A. Grow, for twelve
years Republican congressman from the
| Wilmot district of Pennsylvania, and
| Speaker of the House during his last term of
service, has formally repudiated Grant and
| declared for Greeley. Mr.. Grows record as
| ole Of the earliest, most earnest, and most
| consistent of Republicans, has given him an
| unquestiOned right to rank with the ablest
| and purest leaders OF his party. He was an
| early advocate of the homestead law, and
one Of its most tireless champions. In a
| letter recently addressed to Colonel A. X.
| Mcclure, chairman of the Pennsylvania
Liberal Republican State Committee, after
! stating his inability to take the stump be-
| cause of throat disease and generally i'm
! paired health he says:
| am for Greeley for President. He has
! devoted a "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 development of the industrial interests
Of the country. Pennyless, friendless and
alone in great city, struggling for years
against adverse fortune, he has achieved
unprecedented success. Editing the recOg-
nized organ of the old Wing party lin
which he has been sChOOled from bOyhOOd),
he was among the first in advocating its
abandonment and the formation of the Re
publican party, when he had to choose be-
tween duty to his convictions or fealty to
party organization. For thirty wears with
each setting sun he has boldly uttered his
convictions on the worlds public dOings of
the preceding twenty-fOur hours, whether
political, social, moral or religious, yet
never pandering to the vices or follies of
Bt5g +1oA T,,,1~ Il
saderlike he has champiOned the universal
manhood of the race and the equal rights of
all mankind.
No one living has devoted more brain
work to the cause or universal liberty, or
the elevation of fallen and crushed humani-
ty, and feT, if any, have endured more of
the jeers Of gilded prejudice or the SCOTS of
bigOted error. Yet today the leading ideas
for which he has struggled so long with un-
yielding tcnacity are Incorporated into or
ganic law and are stamped indellibly upon
the pillars of the republic. And now. when
a great political party, through its regular
organization, selects such a man for its
standard-bearer, l hail it as the political
dawn of a brighter and better day. The
Democrat who can lay aside his party pre-
judices of lifetime and accept the fore
most and ablest representative of the ideas
of his political 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 standard of a man
whom for quarter of century they have
been taught by all their teachings to hate
as their deadliest foe, they give the best
evidence that with them the animOsties 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 reconciliation!
A victorious party Ill a carnival of blood |
party of perpetual hates. When the van
quished are ready to close the bloody chasm
and bury forever the animOsities engen-
dered in the deadly strife, returning over |
the graves of their dead ones, and through |
the bitter memories of the past to grasp in J
fratern8l concord the hand Of the victor, I
where is the patriotism that would refuse |
the prOtfcred offer
In what other way can we ever expect to |
have cur people homogeneous in IDEAS and !
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 struggling to prolong his term of Office! |
Yours truly,
GALUSHA A. GROW.
The New York Tribune says of the fore
going letter:
The Hon. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsyl- |
vania, is among the latest of the prominent |
men who have left the Grant party for that !
Of the Liberals. His letter declaring his |
political sentiments, published III the Iri-
bune to-day, is a generous tribute, also, to
The worth OF the Liberal candidate for the
Presidency. As Representative in Con
gress and Speaker of the House Of Repre-
Mr.. Grow has won fame and
honor. His influence in the politics of his
own State is large; and his presence in the
Reform ranks will make an administration
succeas in PennsyIEania q more dititcnlt |