The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-09-20
Indretc g. Curtin.

1t will be seen from the following sum-
mary of speech delivered last Friday
night at Columbia, Lancaster county, by
Col \. X MCLURE, the warm personal
and political friend Of Gov. CURTIN, that
the WAR Governor" should his health
permit, viii take the stump in Jar0T Of
BUCKALEw and GREELEY and against
HARTRANFT and GRANT. Thus has the
last hope of Radicalism i'll Pennsylvania
been blasted
At a large meeting at Columbia on Friday
night Col. MClure's most salient points
were in reference to the position of the hon.
y. G. Curtin i'll both the national and state
canvass. The Colonel did not make any
unauthorized statements ; and, as AN carry
and stcadfast personal friend of Governor
Curtin, his statement was entitled 10 ana
received undoubtcd credence. The weight
and Importance which the Grant admins
tration Inen attached 10 the political Position
OF Governor Curtin was evidenced ny thc
pertinacity with which he had been pursued
and sought To be won over To the support oi
the national or state tickets. He had been
approached at ST Petersburg by the ennis
sarics of Grant and Cameron, with protters
of position and honors which would nave
tempted almost any man to s;Icrlhce even
principle He had persistenfly refused their
the. purpose of restoring his impaired health,
h,. was still pursued and inportuned to lend
his aid III sustaining the failing fortunes of
Grant and Cameron. London, Paris-eNery
place in which he had taken refuge to re-
cruit his shattered health and guard himself
from political vandalS, he had been visited
bv these enssaries, with importunatc de-
mands. Alive To the exigencies of their
position, these men had imploringly begged
his influence. Pennsylvania without that
influence was lost not only to Grant but 10
the state ticket. New York WAS irretrieva-
bly, lost Indiana was gone, and defeat, GER
tain and unIniStallablc, would bc the result
of his disaffection. Governor Curtin was
offered any position which his ambition could
crave, within the gift of the government.
All these offers and opportunities were
spectfully, but positively, declined. Gov
ernOr Curtin would have resigned his com
mission long before he did, had he not been
earnestly appealed to TO continue his mis-
sion. 1t was his early expressed detcrmi-
nation To return home, and to direct all his
earnest and vigilaut efforts for the over
throw of the Grant administration and the
Cameron ring in Pennsylvania.
AS regarded Governor Curtins political
sspira ationS, Colonel n 'Clure stated that he
would positively have declined the noInina-
tion for vice president either at Cincinnati
or Baltimore. Had the liberal convention
at Cincinnati rendered him a unanimous
for the presidency, he would
have deferred To the wishes OF the people,
and accepted. He was ambitious, however,
of serving the people of Pennsylvania, in
what might be esteemed an humble capacity,
hut in one which he regarded the highest
in honor which could he bestowed pro-
position had been made To revise and re-
model the fundamental principles of our
by its growth, Its prosper
ity and Importance. Ia that he did feel
interest, and desired TO participate, If his
wishes could be- seconded by his fcllow-citi-
zens. 1t was in furth"rauce of this wish,
and the earnest desire of men of all parties
democrats and republicans-that the move
meut had been made tn place him in noIni-
nation as a delegate at large To the constitu-
tional convention. This step was taken
with Governor Curtin's full knowledge and
approval and as an earnest of the sincerity
which portained TO the feelings and purposes
OF Governor Curtin's friends, there were
several democrats who had been placed in
nomination for the position, who were will
ing to withdraw in favor Of Governor Curtin
in order To secure the weight of his talents
and his personal influence in re-organiza-
ton OF the fundamental law of the state
\ dispatch was received from Mrs. Cur
tin last night, by Colonel Mcclure that
Governor Curtin had arrived safely AT Sara
tOga, and that he had stood the journey we'll
There are promises and hopes uf his speedy
restoration to health, and We have the as
surance that, should he he able TO address
his fellow-citiZcus during the pending can
Vass, he will do ro in favor of Charles r.
BuCkalew and Horace Greeley. Colonel
Mcclure assured the people of Columbia
that Governor Curtin's canvass notes woud
give out no uncertain sounds-the old Key
stone would give out no uncertain sounds
Victory for honest men III opposition to the
Cameron ring was the watchword and in
the memorable words IF Richelieu, there ia
no such word as fall in the reform lexicon