The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-08-23
Hon. Gulusha Il. Gro,c for Greeley.

IF we would undertake to publish one
fourth of the speeches which have been and
are daily being delivered, or one-fourth of
the letters written by leading and promi-
nent supporters of GRANT throughout the
country, but who now declare their purpose
to advocate the election of HORACE GREE
LEY the columns of the Freeman would be
entirely taken up that way, tothe exclusion
of all other matter. Last week We pub
lished Gen. BANKs' letter in favcr of GREE
LEY, and we give place below to docu-
ment of a similar character from another
prominent and representative Republican
Hon. GALUsHA A. Grow. Mr.. Grow
was the successor in Congress from the
Bradford district of DAVID WIIMoT, and
was reelected several times. He was
Speaker of the House from 1861 to 1868.
He now resides in Texas, where he is act
| ing as the President of Rail Road Com
pany He is an able man, but his conscience
instinctively revolts from the sins and ini-
! quities of reckless and corrupt admins
tration, and he now comes out squareIy for
HORACE GREELEY as the representative OF
reform and honest government and against
''addition, dirtsiOn and silence"
am for Greeley for President. He has
| devoted busy life to earnest thought and
| study on all the grave questions of govern
mental policy, and the equally grave ques-
! tions affecting the welfare OF labor, and the
! development of the Industrial interests OF
| the country.
Starting penniless, friendless and alone
| in n great city, and struggling for years
| against adverse fortune, he has achieved
unprecedented success. Editing the recog-
! nized organ OF the old Whig party Tin which
! he had been schooled from boyhood) he was
! among the first in advocating its abandon
| ment and the formation of the Republican
| party, when he had to choose between duty
! TO his convictions or fealty 70 party organi-
! zation-
| For thirty years with each setting sun he
| boldly uttered his convictions on the world 3
| public doings of the preceding twenty four
| hours, whether political, social, moral or
! religious, yet never pandering to the vices
OF fOllies of the times. During that whole
period, crusader-like, 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 human
| ity, and few, if any, have endured more of
the jeers of gilded prejudice, or the SCOTS of
bigoted error. Yet to-day the leading ideas
for which he has struggled so long with un-
yielding tenacity, are incorporated into our
organic law and are stamped indelibly upon
the pillars of the Republic.
And now when great political party
through its regular organization selects
such Il man for its standard bearer, / hail
it as the dawn of a brighter and better day.
The Democrat who can lay aside his party
preiudices of lifetime and accept the
foremost and ablest representative of the
ideas of his former political opponents, gives
the best evidence he can furnish that he is
ready To let the dead past bury its dead, and
to act for the living present.
When the people OF one section of the
Union, despite the education of their entire
section, rally around the standard of n man
who for the third of a century they have
been taught to hate as their deadliest foe,
| they give the best evidence that with them
! the animosities of the past are buried for
| ever. If not in this way, how, then, is the
Union ever to he restored to peace and last
| ing reconciliation?
! A victorious party in n carnival of blood
| cannot in this age convert itself into party
| of perpetual hates When the vanquished d
| are ready to close the bloody chasm and
| bury forever the animosities engendered in
! the deadly strife, returning over the graves
| of their dead ones and through the bitter
memories of the past TO grasp in fraternal
| concord the hand OF the victor, where is the
patriotism that would repel the proffered
! offer
In what other way can we ever expect to
! have one people, homogeneous in ideas and
| institutions, 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.
/ Hon. A. X. MCCLURE.