New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-09-20
TILE GOOD CAUSE GOES on.

when q party after stTaiElng every nerve,
spending money incalCula6le, putting It's Cabl-
net in the field to make stump speeches while
their unmatched employees pave the way for
fresh defalcatlOns, exhausting ITS patronage and
wearing out its stump-spcakers, begins to find the
steady pull against the tide too eXhausting, 1t
becomes greatly addicted to whistling to keep
ifs courage I'D. "Tho Opposition have stopped
making gains" exclaim It's organs. The
" tide has reached its hight and begun to re-
" cedc. There hasn't been notable addition
" to their ranks for weeks"
Let us see We need not grumble if there
has MT; since there were additions enough,
weeks ago, to secure the great October States
and so settle the fight. But in this very period,
when the Grant organs say we have been
making no gains, just see what KIND OF gains
are scored up for us:
|. ANDREW G. CURTIN, the great War Cover
nor of Pennsylvania, the most popular states
man of tho Keystone State, and the only
one of late years fully capable Of defeating
Simon Cameron, has declined a nominate on
for Congress in his own district, rendered in
the most fattering manner, but tainted by
being capable of being counted in
the Grant interest. He has consented
to accept the Liberal Republican and Demo
cratic nominations for delegate to the Con-
stitutional Convention, and fairly allied him
self with the great movement for Reform. We
reckon this gain second in Importance at the
critical spot to no one made since the Liberal
Republican movement began.
g. FRED. HAssAUREK, scarcely second to Carl
Schurz as orator or editor, has been fairly
lifted out of his long essayed position of neu-
trality between Grant and Greeley by the up
rising of the people behind him, and has come
out in an eloquent and cOgent address
for Greeley and Brown. Grant organs,
vainly striving to belittle this bril-
liant accession, sneer that Herr Hassaurek
does not control the Germans of Ohio and
Indiana. Most true the Germans of Ohio
and Indiana control him. lie came out be-
cause they had already done so. BY expedi-
tous work he could regain his place in the
van by standing still he could get run over ;
and he chose the better part. ALI honor
to the Germans who began this move
ment in that section, and who mean to
aid its triumph. Mr.. Hassaurek too, deserves
all praise. He has been most kindly treated
by the President. His step-brother appointed
u. S. Minister to Bolivia through his infu-
ence, has been retained in spite of his failure
to support the Administration. He braves the
danger of losing this place by his open
defiance. All the more, it serves to show how
strong was the movement he could no longer
resist.
8. Ex-President MAHAN of 0berlin College is
hardly a new accession, but his public utter
ances are only of recent date. AS Gov. Curtin
speaks for the great class of average, well-to-
do Pennsylvania Republicans; and as Nassau
rex shows the sweep of the German move
ment, so President Mahan illustrates the Lib
eral hold on the best old anti-Slavery reli-
gious element of the Western Reserve.
T. FREDERICK Brown, sole surviving brother
of John Brown, shows the same drift even
more significantly. Here is family, to whose
insight and devotion even Mr. VIM. Lloyd
Garrison would be willing to bow. Where
John Browns brother gladly goes, no declara-
ton by Mr.. Wendell Phillips of danger from
Rebels can deter anti-Slavery men from fol-
lowing.
The list might be easily extended, but these
are types, and enough. Now watch for the
next Grant man, chattering about the stoDpage
of accessions to the Greeley ranks and give
him this, to comfort himself witha!