The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1872-08-24
ANOTHER LIBERAL RECRUIT,

EX X-CoNGREssMAN GROW, OF pENNSYI-
vANIA, GIVES HIS ALLEGIANCE TO
GREELEY.
The Hon. Galusha A. Grow, for
twelve years Republican member of
Congress from the Wilmot district
of Pennsylvania, and speaker OF the
house during his last term of SER
vice, has formally repudiated Grant
and declared for Greeley. Mr.,
Grows record as one of the earliest,
most earnest, aud most consistent Of
Republicans has given him an un-
questioned right to rank with the
ablest and purest leaders Of his
party. He was an early advocate
of the homestead law, aud one of its
most tireless champions. In let
ter recently addressed to A. X, Nc
Clure, chairman of the Pennsylvania
Liberal Republican State Commit
tee, after stating his inability to
take the stump because of throat
disease and generally impaired
health, he says:
am for Greeley for President,
lie has devoted a "busy life" to
earnest thought and study on all the
grave questions of government poll
cies aud the equally grave questions
affecting the welfare of labor and
the development of the interests of
the country. Penniless, friendless,
and alone in great city, struggling
for years against adverse fortune,
he has achieved unprecedented sue
cess. Editing the recognized organ
OF the old Wing party lin which he
had been schooled from boyhood),
be was among the first in advocating
its abandonment aud the formation
Of the Republican party, when he
had to choose between duty to his
convictions or fealty to party or
ganization. For thirty years with
each setting sun he has boldly ut
tered his convictions of the worlds
doings Of the preceding twenty-four
hours, whether political, social,
moral or religious, yet never pander-
ing to the vices and follies OF his
time. During that whole period,
Crusaderclike, 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 of universal
liberty, or the elevation of fallen
and crushed humanity, and few, if
any, have endured more Of the jeers
of gilded prejudice or the SCOTS Of
bigoted error. Yet to-day the lead
ing ideas for which he has struggled
SO hong with unyielding tenacity are
incorporated into organic law and
are stamped indelfibly upon the pill
lars of the republic. And pow,
when great political party, through
its regular organization, selects such
man for its standard bearer, /
hail it as the political dawn Of a
brighter and better day. The
Democrat who can lay aside his
party prejudices of life time and
accept the foremost and ablest rep
resentative Of the ideas Of his politi.
cal opponents, gives the best evi-
dence he can furnish that he is will
ling to let the dead past bury its
dead and to act in the living pres
ent.
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 a
quarter of a century they have been
taught by all their teachings to hate
as their deadliest foe, they gave the
best evidence that with them the
animosities Of the past are buried
forever. II not in this way, how,
then, is the Union ever to be re-
stored to peace and lasting reconcil-
iation? A victorious party in a
carnival Of blood cannot, in this age,
convert itself into a party Of per
petual hates. When the vanquished
are ready to close the bloody chasm
and bury forever the animosities
engeDdsred in the deadly strife,
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