New-York tribune., 1872-08-12
ANOTHER LIBERAL RECRUIT.

EX-CONGREssMAN GROW OF PENNSYLVANIA
GIVES HIS ALLEGIANCE TO GREELEY-AN
ELOQUENT TRIBUTE TO THE LIBERAL
CANDIDATE.
The Hon. Galusha A. Grow, for twelve
years Republican Congressman from the Wlmot district
Pennsylvania and Speaker Of the House during ms
last term Of service has formally rcpudiated Grant and
declared FOR Greeley Mr.. Grows record one OF the
earliest most earnest and most consistent Of Repub-
cans has given him an .cstiOned Fight to rank with
the abest and purest leaders OF his PARTY He was an
early advocate Of the Homestead law. aud one or Us
most treless champions In letter recently addressed
TO Col. A. X. Mcclure, Chairman Of the Pennsylyania
Liberal Republican state Committee, after stating his
inability to the stump because OF throat disease and
generally impaired health, he says:
am for Greeley for President. He has devoted a
"busy life earnest thought and study on m ne crave
questions Of government policies and the equally grave
questions affecting the welfare or labor ana tue ut tO
lnent Of the industrial interests OF the country Penny
e,s frieud!ess and alone IN great city struggling iOr
years against adverse fortune, nc has achleVed ut'
dened Editing the recognized organ OF the Ola
hg party which lie had been sC1OOlod from DOyHO
be " As among the first IN advocating its abandonment
ana the formation Of the Republican party when he had
TO choose between duty 10 MS CONVICTIONS or leay 10
party organization For 80 years with eaeh setting sun
he has boldly uttered MS convictions on the WOrlu
Dubc dOugs of the preceding "a hours, whether pOlr,
Social moral. religious, yet never pandefng TO the
wees or fOIes Of his time. During that whole period
Crusalerlkc ne has champOued the universal manhood
OF the race and the equal rights OF all mankind .
No one living has devoted more brain-work TO tho
crushed humanity and few, II any, have endured more
of the ieers of glded prejudice the SCOTS bgOted
error Yet to-day the leading ideas for which ne mas
struggled long with unyleldlng tenacity are moor
porated into organic law and are stamped ndehby upon
The pillars Of Republic And now, when great pO-
tica party, through Its regular organization, selects
such It's staudardDearer, han 10 as the point
cal dawn Of a brighter and better day The Democrat
who can lay aside party prcludices Of lifetime and
accept the foremost ana aDiest representative OF the
ideas ms political opponents, gives the best evidence
lie can furnish that he is willing 10 let the dead past
bury its dead and 70 act IN the living present.
When people of section OF the Union, despite
the education their entire section, rally around the
standard OF whom for quarter OF "a century they
have been taught by all their teachings hate their
deadest foe they give the best evidence that with them
the animOtics OF the past buried forever II not
this way how then IL the Union ever 70 be restored to
peace and lasting reconciliation victorious party IN
carnival Of blood cannot IN this age, convert itself
a party Of perpetual hates. When the vapquished
ready 70 close the bloody chasm and bury forever the
8nimOses engendered IN the deadly strife, returning
yeI tAe graves VI ls gead ones, and through the BIT
tS 1GnQrie OF the past to grasp ia DateTnal concord
the hand OF the victor where Is the PATRIOTISM that
would refuse the prOtered otter
IN what other way can We ever expect to have our
people homogeneous IN ideas and institutions from the
Gulf the lakes, and from ocean TO ocean, with one
Union and destiny and tOrevert Are these
grand results Of less consequence TO the Republic han
the ambitious wishes Of one man struggling 10 prOOuS
his term OF office. Yours truly, GALUoHA A. GROW.