Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-05-01


THE UNION LEAGUE OF AMERICA, AT AT
LANTA, GA, April 2, 1879.
Gentlemen You have been requested to
meet to consider the propriety of organ
izing a State Council of the Union League
of America. The Union League was
reorganized a few months
since with view of aiding the Republi-
cans of the South, in their efforts to pro-
mote the Republican cause in this sec
tion.
THE UNION LEAGUE.
The objects of the League are: ''To
preserve Liberty, and to preserve the
Union of the United States of America;
to maintain the Constitution thereof, and
the Supremacy of the Laws; to sustain
the Government and assist in putting
down its enemies; to protect and defend
all citizens, without regard to sect, con-
dition or race; and to elect honest and re-
liable patriots to all offices of profit or
trust in National, State and Local Gov
ernments; and to secure equal, civil and
political rights to all men under the Gov
ernment.''
These principles will, I am sure, be ap-
proved by every patriot in the South
The Republicans of Georgia are already
in accord with them.
PLATFORM OF THE GEORGIA REPUBLICANS.
The Executive committee of our party !,
on the 18th day of September last, adopt
ed the following resolutions as platform
of principles for the Republican party in
this State:
The Republican Executive Committee
of the State of Georgia submit the fol-
lowing resolutions to the Republicans of
the State as a platform of principles:
1. That we view with pride the work
already accomplished by the Republican
party of the nation; but important as that
has been, other work hardly less impor-
| tant remains to be done.
2. That the United States is nation
not confederacy; a government of the
people by the people, for the people; moi
a league of sovereign States.
3. That it is the duty of the Govern
ment to maintain its coin and currency
at all times at par with the gold standard
of the commercial world.
d. That the national honor imperative
ly demands that all financial pledges mad
in the hour of supreme national peril b.
maintained inviolate, and redeemed a
any sacrifice, and every dollar of tn
principal and interest of the nationa
debt according to oft-repeated promises
5. That our legal tender notes ,havin
been issued under a solemn promise tha
they should be redeemed in coin at tn
earliest practicable moment, and as tn
time has arrived when it was promise
that it should be done; and when it ca
be done without disturbing the monetor
transactions of the nation, and we ca
thus fulfill the pledge so solemly made
We denounce all efforts to delay resumI
4 ton. as we'll as all efforts to flood til
& country with an indefinite quantity of il
redeemable currency as unwise and di!
honorable as public measures, and whic
would prove in their operation criminal
unjust testhe labor ng classes'of che seouT
try.
6. That the State 81 Georgia shall eve
remain member of the American q nior
1.-The people thereof are part of the SINE
: lean nation; every citizen thereof owt
! paramount allegiance to the Constitutio
and government of the United States, ar
no law or ordinance of this State in COZ
travention or submersion thereofs
ever have binding force.
7. That the first duty of the Cover
ment is the protection of all its citiZel
in the enjoyment of life, liberty al
property.
8. That prosperity and human libert
depend upon the education of the peopl
that education increases the security
life and property, prevents crime, max
better citizens, promotes happiness, al
teaches respectabilfty and independen
of character, enlarges the sphere Of i
tellectua1 enjoyment, puriffes public mo
ais, and enlfsts public opinion as well
the influence of religion against immo
ality and crime.
8. That a system of general educatio
to be forever free to all the children
. the State, should be established by tt
General Assembly, and amply maintain
by taxation or otherwise.
10. That free speech and free pre-
are essential to the maintenance of h
. man liberty. ~ 80 8 y
IL. That the exercise of the electi
franchise is one of the most sacred rigl
and solemn duties of an American citize
and that every qualified voted should
protected by the full power of the Gc
= ernment, if need be, in the free and [
trammelled exercise of the right to W
ssiust once" at all elections.
. 70. That mechanics and laborers shol
|! have liens upon the property of their c
ployers for labor performed or mater
furnished, and that General "A sse
bly, should provide for the speedy
" forcement of the same. u
ut I3. That we view with apprehens
and alarm the following features of
Constitution of 1877, viz: The omiss
to provide for the protection of mech
les and laborers; the failure to ensure
= efficient system of free schools; its
tain tendency to trammel and unjus
limit the elective franchise, and the
fusal of its trainers to provide suits
punishment for persons engaged in d
ing; as was provided in the Constitut
of 1868, thus virtually re-establishing
code in Georgia.
We, therefore earnestly solicit the
<. operation of all good citizens in effor
secure in these particulars, at ..le
amendments to the Consultation.
20 IA. That the present system of pun
10 ment for criminals in this State, CONN
ly known as the ''chain-gang and. f,
ing out convict labor system, y is
opt. of barbarism, and degrades the hone.
=" Dor of the State by being brought
: competition with it; and we demand
| the General Assembly shall remedy
I evil at the earliest day possible, by
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