The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-08-25
For the Standard.
Union Meeting in Surry County.

At a public meeting of the Union people
of the Hollow-Spring District, in the County
of Surry. on Saturday. August 18th, 1866,
Jonas Simmons was called to the Chair and
J. NJ. Marshall appointed Secretary.
On motion, the following citizens were ap-
pointed committee to prepare matter for
the action of the meeting-Tyrey Riddle,
VIM. Taylor, Rufus H. Redman, John Tay-
lor, Thomas Taylor, Ira Shelton Henry HAY
more Samuel Forkner. and ]. NJ Marshall
The committee after consultation reported
through J. NJ Marshall the following pream-
bic and resolutions:
WHEREAS, The approaching elections for
Governor and members of the Legislature
will be held this fall; and whereas, we q
portion Of the Union people of the County
ofSurry, feel deep interest in the success of
true and tried Union men at the next cleo
lions. and desire to inform our Union friends
throughout the State and nation of our
views of public policy; and whereas, it be-
hooves the friends of the government, the
friends of humanity, the friends of Justice
the friends of liberty and equal rights to ALL
to take their position distinctly, with the
friends of Union and as against rebellion and
the sympathisers with dead Confederacy:
Therefore. be it
1. Rssolced, That we as people are iden-
titled in feeling and interest with the Union
we deplore the necessity that impels us to
the course that We now take for the protec-
ton of our rights and liberties as people
and to preserve the same to our posterity.
2. That the course pursued by certain in
dlYlduals, who set themselves UP as leaders
OF the Union party, is utterly unworthy the
name of loyalty much less leaders and guides
to the party. That they are doing more
harm to the cause of restoration, to the peace
of rol,
els and secessionists can do at the present
time; for they become the willing tools of
the rebels and secessionists to accomplish
their base designs of sowing the seeds of sec
tIonal hate and strife, that have well nigh
ruined our country, and the only return
they get for their faithless course is the sup
port of Rebels and Secessionists for office
3. That we deplore the condition of the
country in which we live; that the spirit of
dlsaffection is on the increase, sectional hate
is nurtured by large class of those, who
failed in their attempts to overthrow the
government and the liberties of the people,
and by class Of professed Unionists who
were always unstable, in the head winds
and current of every shifting prospect of the
four years bloody struggle.
4. That we protest against the appoint
ment to public trust in this County or in the
State or nation, of those who are lending
their aid to disaffect and divide the Union
people North and South, but in all cases pre-
fer those that have been true and tried
friends OF humanity and civil liberty, and are
using all their efforts to promote the unity
and stability of republican government
throughout the whole country.
8. That we approve the report of the ma
Jority of the Reconstruction Committee of
Congress. It is an able document, eminent
ly just in its deductions and liberal in its
concessions towards the people of the Rebel
States.
e. That the adoption of the Constitutional
amendment "A will enable Congress to remove
the disability that now deprives many of our
true men from holding office in the govern
ment OF the United States.
4: mat we approve the course of W. w.
Holden OF this State, in the bold and patriotic
stand he has taken for the Union, and against
rebellion and traitors generally, and in favor
OF reconstruction upon basis of satisfac-
ton and permanent endurance.
8. That we recommend the holding of a
State Convention, at Raleigh, of true Union
lists, to consider the true interest of the peo
pie and lay down platform that ali the
Union men of the State can take their stand
upon ....
y. That while we denounce and deprecate
reoelllsm, secessionism and disloyalty 20 the :