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and others for the stand they have
taken for the people’s rights.
Third —Whereas we thing It un
patriotic and un-American and un
constitutional to conscript and take
our young men from their daily avo
cations of 1 ifeagainst their will to a
foreign nation to make battle against
some warring nations; therefore be
it
Resolved by Lord Academy com
munity in mass meeting this the
18th day of August, 1917, that we
take up a subscription to employ the
Hon. Thos. E. Watson as leading
counsel together with such other
counsel as he may deem best to em
ploy to assist him, in order to test
the present Conscript law through
the courts.
Resolved further, that this sub
scription be placed in the Northeast
ern Bank at Commerce, Ga., subject
to his orders, if he should need same
and if not it shall be drawn out and
returned back to the subscribers.
Respectfully, *
E. A. SHAW, Chairman.
M. L. LORD, Secretary.
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resolutions turner county,
GEORGIA.
Whereas, the Supreme law of our
country guarantees to the citiens all
natural and self-evident rights, such
as the following:
’ The right to assemble in peace as
our ancestors have done for thous
ands of years, and to debate any and
all public questions, fully and freely.
The irght to criticise or denounce
any law, any policy of our govern
ment, and the right to petition that
the law or policy be changed.
The right to speak and publish
freely without any abridgement or
■ hindrance.
The right to personal freedom, un
less we commit a c'rime and are ar
rested for that crime.
Therefore, it is resolved, first, by
the people of Turner County assem
bled In mass meeting at Ashburn,
Ga., Aug. ISth, 1917, that Congress
is hereby petitioned to repeal the
Conscript Act and the Espionage Act,
and to pass the bill introduced June
25th, 1917, by Hon. Wm. E. Mason,
known as H. R. 5181.
Secondly—That we thank and
recommend very highly Hon. Thomas
E. Watson and Senator Thos. W.
Hardwick for the work they are so
courageously doing in behaif of the
people and of the hallowed, blood
bought principles imbedded in our
Constitution.
Thirdly—That copies of these reso
lutions be furnished our Senators,
and Congrsesman, and also to the
press.
G. W. THRELKEL,
J. W. HOBBY,
JOSH ELLERBY,
Committee on resolutions.
THOS. BALL, Chairman.
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GLASCOCK COUNTY GEORGIA.
We the citizens of Glascock
county in mass meeting assembled
on August 18th, 1917, at the court
house in Gobson, Ga.» unanimously
adopted the following resolutions.
Resolved, that we do offer to the
Congress and Senate of the United
States our most urgent protest of the
act recently passed, by Congress and
known as the Conscript Act, being
in our opinion a most flagrant vio
lation ofthe letter and the spirit of
the Constitution of the United
States.
Resolved, that,we are as loyal and
patriotic as any body of citizens of
the United States could be, yet we
wish to suffer no encroachment of
our Constitutional rights and liber
ties.
W> endorse the stand of our Sena
tor, Thos. W. Hardwick, as to the
free press;
Resolved that a copy of tehse reso
lutions be furnished The Jefferso
nian, the County paper and our Con
gressmen.
Respectfully submitted,
W. A. WALDEN, Chairman.
! T. A. WALDEN, Secretary.
THE JEFFERSONIAN
COLUMBIA COUNTY CITIZENS"
ADOPT RESOLUTIONS.
Grovetown, GA, Aug. 18, 1917.
As free-born American citizens of
Columbia county, Georgia, in mass
meeting assembled in Grovetown
Academy, on August 18, 1917, we
declare our loyalty to the Constitu
tion and laws of our country, and
aspiring to a patriotism worthy the
heritage of the Hood-bought liberty
bequeathed to us by our Revolution
ary sires, we yield to none in love
of our country and our country’s
flag, for which we humbly pray Al
mighty God’s blessings and protec
tion.
We view with alarm the unpat
riotic act of our National Congress
in enacting the Conscript law; in
levying upon this, and future,
generations a colossal and burden
some debt for the support of an army
and prosecution of war without the
consent of the people, and in viola
tion of both the letter and spirit of
the Constitution of the United
States.
[Clauses 12 and 15 of Section 8
of Article I.]
We petition Congress to repeal the
Conscript and Espionage laws, and
to do no further violence to the Con
stitutional rights of the people; and
we condemn those of our public
servants who aided in any way what
we deem a violation of the rights
of a free people.
We also condemn the usurpation
of power by public officials in an
effort to suppress the freedom of
speech and of the press.
While declaring our loyalty and
patriotism, yet we wish to suffer at
the hands of our public servants no
encroachments upon, nor abridge
ment of, the liberties and freedom
guaranteed us in the Constitution of
our country.
We endorse the fight of Hon. Thos.
E. Watson for the preservation of
our Constitutional rights, and bid
him God speed in his noble, unsel
fish, patriotic course.
We instruct the secretary to fur
nish a copy of the foregoing to the
Columbia Sentinel and the Weekly
Jeffersonian, and to our Congress
men and U. S. Senators.
(Signed) J. E. GIBBS, Chairman.
H. P. BLOuNT, Secretary.
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RESOLUTIONS OM MEETING HELD
AT MARIETTA, COBB COUNTY
GEORGIA, AUG. 11, 1017.
Resolved, First —We endorse the
bold stand taken by Senator Hard
wick, Senators Stone, Lafolette and
others, who have stood by the Con
stitution and the people of the U. S.
against conscription for foreign
fields.
Second—That we believe that
fully 75 per cent of the people of
Georgia do not endorse the Conscript
law passed by the present adminis
tration.
Third —That tjie Georgia Legisla
ture has misled President Wilson
and his administration, by causing
them to believe Georgia is satisfied
with said law.
Fourth —That we Insist that the
Hardwick amendment to the Con
script law be passed by Congress.
Fifth—That the people of Cobb
County are with Thos. E. Watson in
contesting the Constitutionality of
the Conscript law before the Federal
Court.
Sixth—That we endorse the peo
ple’s movement for a State Conven
tion to be held at Macon, Ga., Aug.
23, 1917, and that we now elect
delegates to represent Cobb County
in that convention.
Seventh—That we furnish Thos.
E. Watson, Senator Hardwick, and
the Marietta Journal with a copy of
these resolutions.
T. T. ALEXANDER.
R. R. Petrie,'
B. M. STANLEY,
Committee on Resolutions.
J. B. PETRIE, Sec. •
Watson’s Political Handbook, fifth
edition, just off . the press. Paper
$1.00: Cloth, $1.50. Jeffersonian
Publishing Co., Thomson, Ga.
LIBERTY COUNTY LIVES UP TO
ITS NAME.
Georgia, Liberty County,
At Hinesville, August 11, 1917.
We the people of Liberty County
in convention assembled were called
to order hy Hon. T. J. Harrington.
Hon. J. B. Way was
electee?; a>an of the meeting with
H. C. HodfiKX secretary.
Upon motion the following reso
lution was offeffed, to-wit:
Hinesville, Ga., Aug. 11, 1917.
We the people of Liberty County
in convention assembled, declare it
our duty to mankind and our own
America, to appeal to Congress to
the end, *
First—That the Selective Draft
A'ct be repealed, and that the bills
introduced in the present Congress,
by Senators Mason and Haxdwick, be
passed.
Second —That so much of the
Espionage Act as abridges th) right
of Free Speech and Press be re
pealed.
Discussed by the following gwtiev
men: Hon. Don. H. Clark, of sa
vannah, Ga., J. B. Way and L. W.
Hook, of Hinesville, Ga., after which
the resolution was adopted by a vote
of 75 to 27.
The following Resolution was
offered:
We do unanimously endorse the
action of our Senator, Thos. W.
Hardwick, and pledge to him our in
dividual support. - -
Upon motion a copy of these reso
lutions be presented to the editor of
The Liberty County Herold for pub
lication.
Upon the motion the following
delegates were elected to meetin the
State convention at Macon, Georgia;
or elsewhere that it may be called:
T. J. Harrington, W. C. Long, W. I.
McLamb, F. L. Smiley, J. A. Howard
and H. C. Hodges.
Upon motion we extend to Honora
ble Thomas E. Watson our aid and
sympathies in his efffforts to have
the Selective Service Act repealed or
declared unconstitutional, and in
furtherance of our good faith a col
lection or donation of $27.75 was
offered.
Upon motiort the jneeting ad*
journed.
J. B. WAY, Chairman.
H. C s HODGES, Secretary.
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Thursday, August 30,1917.
WRIGHTSVILLE RESOLUTIONS.
Whereas the laws of general opera
tion in this State are:i
First —As the supreme law, tjhe.
Constitution of the United States,
the laws of the United in pur
suance thereof ; and all treaties mase
under the authority of the United
States.
Second—As the next in authority
thereto; the Constitution of the State
of Georgia, and the law pursuant
theto, etc., and
Whereas, The Supreme Law of the
land guarantees to the people the
right to peaceably assemble and pe
tition the power of government for
the redress of grievances, and,
Whereas, The Supreme Law of the
land respects intellectual freedom,
and guarantees to all citizens of this
government the right of free speech
and preserves the freedom of the
press, and,
Whereas, The servants of the peo
ple, the sworn officers of the law, are
not beyond and secure fro leginti
mate criticism by their
and,
Whereas, The ConstitutiWof the
United States declares that “neither
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except as a punishment for criffie
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