Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-05-11

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REGISTRATION. ..... ...
Col. McCorkle, Supervisor of Registration
for York county, is now filling his appoint
ments for registering the qualified voters OF
the county. According to the information
we have received as to his progress in this
work, the colored voters are focking in las is
their right, and to which none can object) and
registering to man, while among the white
voters, or as we learn considerable number
of them, there is an unaccountable !ukeWarm-
ness and apathy. This should not be, and
we are inclined to hope that statements made
in this respect are exaggerated. This apa-
thetic feeling is confined mostly, we are IN
formed, to elderly gentlemen, who, with the
traditions of life time, feel, as we can easily
conceive, repugnance to carrying a certifl-
cate of registration to entitle them to vote.
These gentlemen should remember that the
times have changed very materially since
they deposited their first ballots in the good
old days of the long ago. With the new order
of things, and the new and peculiar classes OF
voters now exercising the privilege Of the
franchise, some protection to the purity of the
ballot-box is imperatively demanded. A Dem
ocratic Legislature has sought to secure that
protection by the enactment of the registra-
tion law now before the people. Of the Wis
dom of the law, or it's requirements. so far as
the question now in hand is concerned, 1t IS
needless to enquire. 1t is the law, and until
repealed, must be complied with. We there
fore reiterate what we have said heretofore,
that if you fail to register, you cannot vote
at the election next November. With this
fact undeniably stated, it behooves every white
voter in the county-in the State--to throw
aside all feeling of opposition to the law and
be prompt to register. A failure on the part
of white voters to register, may be the means
of remanding our State back to Radical rule.
Surely, the white voters who would consent to
this, are few in the State, and when the fact
fairly confronts them, they will permit no
minor considerations to prevent them from
registering. For the information of all, and
that our readers may readily have the regis
tration law at hand, we have published it in
the last several issues of the ENQUIRER, and
it is published in this number also. Give it
careful reading, if you have not done so al
ready, and remember that if its requirements
are not complied with you cannot vote next
November.
We append the following sensible articles
from papers published in the extreme portions
of the State, and commend the ideas therein
expressed to all who feel that it is not incum-
bent upon them to register. The Charleston
Ne.cs and Courier of Monday says:
No person can vote at the election to he
held in this State next November, or at any
subsequent election, unless he shall have been
previously registered, as now required by law.
This registration is provided for by the Act of
Assembly Of February 8, 1882, and is in ac-
cordance with the mandate of the COnStitu-
tion of 1868.
The registration takes place this month
and next. In each county the Supervisor of
Registration goes to each voting precinct,
having given notice in advance of the place and
time of registration for the precinct. After
having gone the round of the precincts, stay
ing at each precinct not more than three days
nor less than one day, the Supervisor opens his
books at the county seat ito correct errors in
registration, and to register such electors as
failed to register at their respective precincts"
At the conclusion of the registration so pro-
vided for, the Supervisor shall revise the list,
and may add thereto the name of any quail
flied voter who has failed to register. Then
and there the opportunities end. Those who
do not register at the precinct, or who do not
register at the county seat or whose names are
not registered at the time of the revision,
cannot vote in November No registration,
no vote.
The colored people will register to a man.
They have been piled for weeks with warnings
and exhortations. They have been told that
the registration law is a scheme to deprive
them of their suffrage, and that failure to
register will remand them to a condition OF
political slavery, at least 1t is great wrong
to alarm and excite the colored voters in this
way; but they were expected to register.
The law is for white man and black man alike.
Will the white people register? We can only
say that if they do not they deprive themselves
of the opportunity to secure the continuance
of good government and peace for themselves
and their felloW-citiZenS next November.
The nature of the contest in South Carolina
is not in doubt, since the curtain rose in the
United States Court month ago. 1t is the
intention of the Stalwarts to steal South Caro-
lima. TO accomplish this they will spare neith-
er threat nor cajolery. They will vary their
bribes to meet the tastes of individuals and of
communities. They want to break the back
of the Democracy this year, so as to crush it
completely in 1884 1t is not unlikely that
there will be struggle this fall as arduous as
that in which Hampton led the State to victory
in '76 The citizen of South Carolina who does
not register cannot vote for the Democratic
candidates, cannot cast his vote into the scale,
though but single ballot stand between sue
cess and failure, cannot exercise the freeman's
highest privilege of declaring by his vote his
sovereign will. No registration, no vote
And the following voice comes from the
mountains, through the conservative columns
of the Walhalla Courier:
If the right to vote was curtalled by law
limiting it to property or educational or col
or qualification, great hue and cry would
justly go up, but here is a law, new to us, but
common in the North, which requires little
act to entitle you to vote, and which bears
equally on all, and shall you through pride OF
liberty lose the right of freeman by refusing
to comply with it Heaven forbid The law
is believed to he good one by many, though
condemned by many. If it gave any race or
class any privilege over another, then you might
complain, but it eXempts no one from its pro-
visions. Will you lose the highest rights of
freemen by refusing to perform little act at