Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-06-14
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE IA, 1857.

upon to do SO by the Boards Of Registration.
In this issue we publish the notice, Of the
President Of the Board, that registration will
be commenced, in District No. l and 2,
Staunton, and District No. 3. Middlebrook,
on June 22nd, tomorrow one week, and
continue until and including june 29th,
Sunday excepted The time for registering,
revising the lists and reporting to the COM
mandant of the State is short and we desire
to impress upon all the necessity of prompt
ly presenting themselves for registration.
There are also several points to which we
desire particularly to call the attention of our
people. There will be but one place of reg
istration in each magisterial District, and
consequently but one place of voting, and no
one can vote except at the place he registers.
Each one is, therefore, expected to register
in his magisterial District, where he must
vote.
There will be two lists, one for those who
are registered as voters, and another for
those who are rejected or are considered
doubtful, with the reasons therefor The
latter we may call the doubtful list, and up
on which we advise all, who are uncertain
whether they are disfranchised, Or are rejec-
ted, to have their names placed and let the
matter be decided by the commandant of the
State. In this way many will be allowed
ultimately to register as voters, who are in
clined to believe they are DISTINGUISHED.
We desire also to remove the impression
that any one who aided the rebellion is, there
fore, DISTINGUISHED. We published the Or
der Of Gen. Schofeld in our last issue, from
which this conclusion was enormously drawn,
in the 3rd paragraph of which he distinctly
says that no one is disfranchised for partici-
patton in the rebellion, unless he previously
was either member of Congress or officer
of the United States, civil or military, and as
such took an oath to support the Constitution
of the United States, or was a member of any
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State Legislature, or executive or judicial
officer of any State and afterwards engaged
IN instruction or rebellion against or gave
aid and comfort to the enemies of the United
States, or has been convicted of felony against
the laws Of any State Or Of the United States.
He then proceeds to define the executive
and judicial officers of State to be "Goy-
ernor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of
State, Auditor Of Public Accounts, End Au-
ditor, Register of the Land Office, State
Treasurer, Attorney General, Judges Of the
Supreme Court Of Appeals, Judges Of the
Circuit Courts, Judge of the Court of Hust-
ings, Justices Of the County Courts, Mayor,
Recorder and Aldermen of any city Or incor-
porated town, who are er-o6icio Justices,
Coroners of towns and counties, Escheators,
Inspectors of tobacco, -four and other com
modities"
No all who held any one of these Offices
before the war and afterwards gave aid and
comfort to the enemies of the United States
and all who have been convicted of felony
are disfranchised, but no one is disfranchised
for aiding in any way in the late war, unless
he previously held one of the offices which
General Schofeld enumerates, as given above
by us, and all such can take the oath re-
CURED, which we publish again for the in
formation Of our people, and is as follows:
II -, do solemnly swear, or affirm,
in the presence of Almig hty God, that am
citizen Of the State of -; that I have
resided in said State for - months next
preceding this day, and now reside in the
county of -, or the parish Of -, in
said State, as the case may be; that I am q
years old; that [ have not been DISTINGUISHED
for participation in any rebellion or civil war
against the United States nor for felony COM
mitted against the laws of any State Or of the
United States; that have never been mem
Der of any State Legislature, nor held any
executive or judicial Office in any State, and
afterwards engaged in instruction or rebel
lion against the United States or given aid
VI comIOTC W Tie enemies thereof; that
have never taken an oath as member of
Congress Of the United States, or as an off
Ger of the United States, or as a member of
any State Legislature, or as an executive or
judicial officer of any State, to support the
Constitution Of the United States, and after
wards engaged in instruction or rebellion
against the United States, or given aid or
comfort to the enemies thereof; that l will
faithfully support the Constitution and obey
the laws of the United States, and will, to
the best Of my ability encourage others so
to do.' 80 help me God"
Some may think that they can not take
this oath on account of swearing that they
have never been disfranchised for participa
ton in the Rebellion, when the Alexandria
Constitution disfranchised all who aided or
abetted the Confederacy. We would ask all
such to reflect little and remember that
Congress, by its Reconstruction act, ignores
that Constitution, and consequently no dis
franchisement under that act could possibly
be claimed. The President of the Board