The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-06

The Duty oT Voters.
TIE Atlanta 9ateHigsscsl one Of
f6us best southern exchGnge after
having, in Difference to, Governor
Jenkins, waited the result 81 the ap-
piication for an injanction to the
Supreme Court, now defines lis posi-
ton as to the duty Of voters under
the reconstruction Acts. We extract
the following from its article; e
The first duty, then, of every
white citizen in the State. who is not
disfranchised, is to register. s We
urge this upon, him as q most inn
portant and sacred duty, The &C.
tive efforts of the radicals at the
North, and the radicals at the South,
to control the vote of the freedmen
in oil coming elections, will insure
their registratit II to q man. Whether
this will be attended by an entire
control Of that vote to further the de-
signs of the radical party, remains to
be seen. We doubt it very much.
Among the freedmen of Georgia,
there are very many who do not, and
who will not, go with the radicals.
Nevertheless, it is proper and impor-
tant for every citizen, not disfran-
ohised, to be prepared to resist the
radical influence at the polls, and by
their votes to check and defeat it.
Registration consummated, what
nextP The voter is required to place
upon his ticket, Convention" or "No
Convention. Here, we apprehend,
will come division. This we shall
very much regret. We would prefer
..'to pretermit'' the question, if we
could, but it is one that forces itself
upon us, and we must be candid.
We're there any hope-thc least that
we could cling to-that any better
terms than those embraced in the re-
construction measures will ever be
offered to the South, we should ad-
wise mo Conventions; but satisfied
that this will never be; that in the
rejection of those now rendered, terms
more proscriptive, more degrading,
will be absolutely forced upon us, we
are for Convention, with true men
as delegates to represent the several
Counties of the State in it, Lamb
like, we shall not, as it were, click
the hand just raised to shed our
blood;" we shall have no afliiiation
with the National or Republican
Party" in Georgia. We submit to
what we cannot avert. We submit
to the inhiction upon our State and
people of the reconstruction mea-
sures of Congress, impressed that
worse will follow if they be rejected.
In doing so, however, we shall exer-
else whatever influence we can to
keep the State in the hands of it's ma
tural custodinns; of her own true M
tive and adopted sons, and resist
every effort made to place it in the
custody of either Southern or North
ern Republicans, radicals or conserv-
atives, call themselves or their party
whatever they may.
That the convention will be called,
we have not the shadow q. q doubt
resting upon our mind. TsS1 it will
frame a constitution, embraWing what
is required by Congress, we have no
doubt. That it may not go further
in the exercise of its power to the in
jury of the State, and the proscrip-
tion or further disfranchisement of
our people-so as to place it and them
in the deplorable condition of Ten
nessee-we must elect good men-
men of sterling integrity and worth
upon whom we can depend, to save
the State and protect the rights of
the people. If any other than such
q constitution shall be framed by the
convention, we reserve the right,
when it is submitted, as it must be,
to the people for ratification" or
"no ratification, to cast all the in
fnence of this journal against its ra-
tification, and submit to the conse-
quences, whatever those consequences
may be.
In the days of slavery, says the
New York Times, the negro women
| constituted fullv One-half the field