The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-09-18
Number 8.
another Liberia! Recruit,

Ex-coNGREssNAs GROW, OF PENNsrL-
WANNA, GIVES His. ALLEGIANCE TO
GREELEY. 60 -,
The Hon. Galusl.a a. Grow, for
twelve years Republican Congressman
from the Wilmot District of .penrsyI-
yauia, and Speaker Of tue House dur
ing his last term Of service, has formal
ly sepndiated GRAFT and declared for
Greeley. IN aletter recently addressed
80 Colonel A.. X. Mcclure. Chairman
of the Pennsylvania Liberal Republic
can State Committee, after stating his
inability to take the stump because of
his tIsaat disease and generally ina
paired health, he savs:a So g
am for Greeley ior+ President. He
has devoted i '.busy life''tueo, eafness 3
thought and staly on All tile grave
Questions Of government politics, and
the equally grave questions effectioS
the welfare Of labor aud the develop
ment Of the industrial interests Of the
country. Penn.less, fl;endless and
alone in g great city, struggling for
years against adverse fortune, he has
achieved unprecedented success. Ell
ting .the recognized organ of the old
Wing party, lin which he had been
schooled from boyhood) he was among
the first in advocating its abandon
ment and the formation OF the Re-
publican party, when he had to choose
between duty to- his convictions ors
fealty to party organization. For
thirty years, with each setting snn, he
has boldly uttered his cenyictions on
the worlds public doings of tho pre-
ceilings twenty hours whether
political, social, moral, or religious; and
yet never pandeling to the vices or
tuIiies of his time. During THAT whole
period, Considerable, he has cham
pionea The universal manhood Of tho
race and the equal rights Of all man.
hood.
No one living has devoted moro
blain-work to the cause Of universal
liberty, or even elevation of fallen and
crushed humanity, and few, if any,
have endured moro Of the jeers Of
gilded prejudice or tile SCOTS Of bigoted
error. Yet to-day the leading ideas for
which he has struggled SO long and
with nnyielding tenacity are incorpo-
rated into organic law, and are stamp
ed indclibly upon the pillars of tho
Republic. And now, when great
political party, through its regular or
ganization, selects such a man for its
standard bearer, I.hail itas the politi-
cal dawn of a brighter and better day.
The Democrat who can lay aside lis
party paejudices ola Lifetime and ac-
cept the foremost land ablcst represen-
tatiye of the ideas of his political OPP
ponents, gives the best evidence he
can furnish that he is willing to let the
dead past bury is dead and to act i'll
the living present.
When the people Of one section Of
the Union, despite the education OF
their entire section, rally around the
standard OF q man whom for quarter
of a century they have been taught by
all their teaching so hate as their dead
lest foe, they give the best evidence
that with them the animosities of tho
past are buried forever. If not in this
way, how. tfran, is the Union ever to
be restored to peace and lasting recon-
Citation ? A victorious party in T.
carnival of blood cannot, ia this age,
convert itself into party of perpetual
hates. When the vanquislcd are
ready to close the bloody e}iasm aud
bury forever the animosities engendGTs
cd in the deadly strife, returning ever
| the graves. Of their dead ones, and
| through the bitter memories of the
past to gasp in fratcrnal concord tho
hand of the victor, where is the patri-
otism that woH.d refuse She piohcrgd
offer s.a
j. {. I'm xba' ether way can we ever cx-
pcct tohave our people. homogeneous
in ideas and institutions from the Gulf
10 the lakes, and from ocean to ocean,
with one Union and one destiny now
and forever Are these grand results
Of less Consequence to tile Republic
than the ambitions wishes Of one mais
struggling TO pgolong his term os
ofIice' Yours truly,
/ GALrsnA A. Grow.
JOHN VAN BuRES's cooL IMpu-
DEScE.-A writer in the Galaxy says
that at fashionable party in Albany,
the late John Van Buren, cooiiy CUT
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