The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-08-28
throw the Government of the United

| Answer -
4th. Will you strive to the extent OF
your ability for the maintenance OF hner-
ty; the elevation of labor; the education
| in the responsibilities and duties OF Amerl-
can citizenship of all the people OF this
country; the practice Of a true friendship
and charity towards each and all of the
order. of which you are about to become
member, and for the election or appoint
ment to all places of public trust OF such
men only as are reliable supporters of
these principles and measures!
5th. Are you willing, and do you desire
to bind yourself by solemn oath to the
maintenance of the principles and policy
indicated in the interrogatorics to which
you have now afirmatively replied?
Answer -
9th. Do you pledge your honor that
you will; obey all rules and orders OF the
/ Union League of America, which shall
not conflict with your lawful rights and
privileges as loyal citizen, and keep in
violate all secrets and ceremonies of the
League, when communicated to you as
such?
Answer
.(Should the candidate answer all of the
foregoing questions in the affirmative, the
A.. V. P. shall report to the ?. and G. as
follows y
"A. v. P. Mr.. President, have made
tho proper examination, and find all the
candidates worthy and willing to proceeds
Unless the report is objected to by the
,l hn,
viii direct as follows:
P. The Marshal will conduct the can
didatc to our council.
The Marshal retrcs and conducts the
candidates to the door and makes the
usual alarm.
FL. Who comes here under the private
signal of our League?
nj. Candidates who, having been duly
elected and examined, desire admission
into our loyal band.
IT. Mr. President, the Marshal an
nounces candidates, who, having been
duly elected and examined desire admis-
sion to our loyal band.
P. The loyal and worthy are always
welcome Admit them.
The door is opened, and the candidates,
preceded by the NJ, enter in double file,
arm in arm, and passing around the altar
are presented in front of the P.'s chair.
AS they enter the door the P. gives three
raps with the gavel-which will call up
the c. The President rising, the NJ. will
introduce the candidates by name.
While the candidates are coming in and
taking their places around the altar, the
P. may direct the c. to sing verse or
more of the patriotic song, "Hail Colum-
bia," or s.Star Spangled Banner" which
may be printed on cards for the use Of the
C. By signal from the P. the members
take their seats during the delivery OF the
address,:
NJ. Mr. 'Vicc-President, have the
pleasure of presenting these candidates
for membership in our Union League,
ADDRESS.
v. P. Gentlemen Cor sir:) We rejoice
that YOU have thus voluntarily come for
ward to unite with us. The cause we ad-
yocatc is that Of our country. Banded
together for the purpose of perpetuating
the liberties for which our fathers fought,
we have sworn to protect them. In time
of peril to our government and the Union,
it became the sacred duty Of all true
patriots to unite their efforts for the
preservation of constitutional freedom,
and in thwarting the designs of traitors
to destroy the tree of liberty planted by
our patriot fathers, and watered by their
blood.
Neither domestic traitors or foreign
foes must be permitted to destroy this ma
ton, nor to circumscribc the influence and
progress of American institutions on this
continent
The first grand purpose of our organi-
cation has been accomplished, through
the combined efforts of our order and the
callantry and perseverance OF our citizen
Soldiers, to whom our grateful acknowl-
edgments ami continued appreciation are
ever due.
The legitimate fruits of this triumph
are vet to be secured in the complete as
tendency of the true principlus of popular
government; the establishment OF equal
| liberty; the elevation and education OF
the toiling masses of the republic; the
preservation of the national honor and
faith the incubation of brotherly afiec-
tion and true charity towards all; the
comnlete and final overthrow at the ballot
box. as in the field, of the oligarchy of
nolitical leaders, who sought to ruin when
thew could not rule, and through whose
errors and wrongs our country has been
bantized in blood; the establishment here
of an asylum for the oppressed of other
lands and of a beacon light so prominent
and enduring as to bo seen by all nations
for all time, and so unerring as to guide
all people to the certain possession OF ma
tional and true liberty.
BY means of this Loyal League these
grand purposes may be realized.
We ask none to Join us who have not