The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-08-15
STILL THEY COME .
Hon. GALUSHA A. GROW
OIIp FOR GREELEY
OUT FOR GREELEY.

The Hon. GaluSha A. Grow. for twelve
Wilmot district of PENNSYLVANIA and
Speaker of the House during his late term
Of service has formally repudiated Grant
and declared for Greeley. Mr.. Grow s
record us one OF the earliest. most earnest,
and most consistent Of Republicans has
given him an unquestioned right to rank
with the abiest and purest leaders of his
purity. He was an early advocate of the
Homestead law and one OF its most tire
less champions. In a letter recently ad-
dressed to Col. A. X. Mcclure, Chairman
OF the Pennsylvania Liberal Republican
State Committee, after stating his inabili-
y to take the stump because of throat dis
e'lst and generally impaired health he
says:
| am for Greeley tor President He has
devoted a busy lite" to earnest thought
ana study on all the grave questions of
government policies. and the equally
.rave questions affecting the welfare OF
ithnr and the development OF the indus
trial interests "l the country. Penniless.
riendless and alone in a great city, strug
cling for years against adverse fortune
M has achieved unprecedented success.
Editing the recognized organ of the Old
Wing party Gin which he had been school
al from boyhood) he was among the first
IN advocating it abandonment aud the
formation of the Republican party, when
hr had to choose between duty aud his
convictions or iealty to party organization
For 30 years with each setting sun he has
boldly uttered his convictions on the
worlds public dongs OF the proceeding
"a hours, whether political, social. moral.
% religious, yet never pandering To the
vices OF toIlies of his time Daring that
whole period Crusader-iike he has cham
loned the universal manhood of the race
and the equal rights of all mankind
No one living has devoted more brain
york to the cause of universal liberty, or
the elevation OF fallen and crushed hu-
manity, and few, II any, have endured
more OF the ieers of gilded prejudice or
the SCOTS of bgoted error. Yet to-day
the leading ideas for which he has strug-
9Ied 50 long with unyielding tenacity are
incorporated into organic law and are
stamped indelibly upon the pillars of the
Rrpnbllc. And now, when great politi-
cal party, through its regular organiz&-
tions, selects such "A man for its standard
bearer, | haIt it rs the political dawn OF a
brighter and better day The Democrat
who can lay aside his party prejudices o!
u Lifetime and accept the foremost and
hlest representative of the ideas of his
political opponents, gives the best evi-
,lt.nce he can furnish that he is willing to
let the dead past bury its dead and to act
IN the living present.
When the people of one section OF the
'nion, despite the education OF their en-
ire section, rally round the standard of a
man whom for a quarter of a century
they have been taught by all their teach
ingS to hate as their deadliest foe, they
give the best evidence that with them the
1nimosilrs OF the past are buried forever
Ii not IN this way, how, then, is the Union
ever to be restored to peace and lasting
reconciliation \ victorious party in a
carnival of blood cannot, in this age, con-
vert itself into party OF perpetual hates.
When the vanquiShed are ready to close
the bloody chasm and bury forever the
Animosites engendered in the deadly
Slillr, returning over The graves OF their
dead ones, and through the bitter memo
ries of the past to grasp i'll fraternal con
cord the hand OF the victor where is the
patriotism that would refuse the prolfered
offer?
ln what other way can we ever expect
10 have onr 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 forever9 Are
these grand results of less consequence
To the Republic than the ambitious wishes
ol one man struggling to proong his term
1T office. Yours. truly.
GALrsHA A. GROW.