Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-09-25
RegistratfOns


our readers the necessity of registration
and the rights of the citizens Hereunder
We have explained the laws applicable t.
registration, and to-day insert IN our edi
torial columns statement of facts from
four eminent North Carolinians, citizens o
Orange county, which we find in the Char
{ lotte Times, containing important lnfor
nation for the people. Let it be remem
bered that no man is now DISTINGUISHED II
North Carolina by any military orders O.
acts of Congress. Everybody OF sufficien
age and residence is O legal voter in thi
State. But to secure the right to vot,
there must be a registration. The olt
registration will not answer. With thu
admission of North Carolina into tn.
Union, the Reconstruction Acts, unde
which the former registrations were made
ceased to be in force. The new registra
ton, which is to begin on the 10Th of DC
tober, is to be made under officers of the
State, and those who registered before, a:
we'll as those who were formerly disfran
chised, must then enroll their names to Sc
cure the right to vote.
The registration lasts from the 10Th O.
October until and including the day of the
election. We suppose the registrars will
make public the times and places at which
they will receive names. This should be
done for obvious reasons. 1t will be I'M
necessary to keep the books continually
open, and rs challenges are allowed only al
the time of registration, notice should be
given SO that challengers from both parties
could be present. It should be the aim OF
the registrars to insure fair election, and
! this course is absolutely necessary for that
purpose.
: We call upon our people to see that all
understand the requirements of the law.
Let no vote be lost from ignorance. I'm
press upon all tho absolute necessity of a
new registration, and see that no one loses
hi, vote from a belief that he is disfran-
chioel. Doubtless fraud will be attempted,
but it will be our own fault if votes are lost
by that means. The law is plain. None
being DISTINGUISHED. there is no latitude
for corrupt registrars to make arbitrary
and illegal decisions, from which there
was no appeal. 1t is for us to impress
upon our people the necessity of their
registration-the vital necessity of our car
rying the State for SEYMOUR and BLAIR.
We can do so, even if there be no reac-
ton in our favor since the election in May.
Let every one do his duty, and victory is
assured.
Badfnage
The cowardly Editors OF the Raleigh
.Staudnrd, frightened by the enormity Of
their base SANDER upon the women of North
Carolina, and the righteous resentment OF
the people of Raleigh, processes to be as
founded that its article should have been
taken so seriously, and says it was ''bad
image and nothing else" The disclaimer
is a silly subterfuge from this outrage upon
society. How depraved must be the heart,
and wicked the thoughts of one who even
in JEST reflects upon the virtue and purity
of our women. 1t coHld proceed only from
4 corrupt mind, and tolerated only by a
corrupt party. Let North Carolina place
the seal of it's indignation upon the bias
phemous and ibcllous paper, and the foul
party which supports it.
Facts to be Observed by the People.
/. In the approaching election no man
is disfranchised who ever was entitled to
vote.
2. A new registration will begin on the
10Th OF October. and every voter, old and
new, must register.
3. There are one hundred and forty thou
sand white voters in North Carolina, and
seventy thousand colored voters, in round
numbers, a majority of two to one.
4. Although the whole Of the colored
vote should be cast against the Conserva-
tives, (which will not be the case,) and
thirty five thousand white votes added,
SEYMOUR and BLAIR will still carry the
State, if a full vote be polled.
5. Military Government has ceased. The
election on the 3rd of November is to be
free, as in former times
E. Any person who shall assemble armed
men at any place Of election, on election
day, is liable to penalty of 81 900, accor-
ding to the Revised Code, page 3OS-9.
W. A. GRAHAM,
JOHN w. Norwood,
HENRY X. NASH,
JOSIAH TURNER, Jr
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