Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-05-11
Registration Again.

number of The citizens Of Walhala registered
and few persons from the country who hap
pened In town. The Supervisor will attend Of
the places and times mentioned in his ADVERTISE
nent for the purpose Of registering voters and
We hope no ono will fail to register.
Does 1t injure you or the oauso of good 90
vsramcnt to registeri II does not and cannot.
Does.it benefit your Under tho worst view Of
do'not desire to vote again; suppose you believe
and feel thatthe present government is no better
than that Of tile Radicals and you desire to
express no preference for either; suppose you
condemn the fence law, the registration law the
Citadel Academy law, tho University law, the
militia law and many other Acts of the last Le-
gislature, is that or any other ground good
reason for not rcgisteringa If you register you
can yoto or not as you feel and ploasc. II you
do not register you cannot votc, however much
your mind may change and however much you
may desire to vote ut the election. Friends,
this is no small matter. The question Is, who
ther you will wilfully and willingly forfeit The
highest rights Of citizen. To retain those
fights costs nothing; to lose them may cost
much. Then register.
Again, does not evcry good citizen desire
that every man entitled to vote should be allowed
the privilege, and does he not equally desire
that no one should vote who is not entitled to
vote. How can both these ends DO attained
without registration9 We venture tho assertion
that there are from ono TO two hundred voters
In this township not personally known TO tho
managers or voters in any other township, and
that there arc numbers in other townships not
known to the managers and voters hero, and
With this true, how oan you prevent illegal votes
being cast, unless through registration Could
not five hundred white mon from other counties
or States scatter among our precincts and vote
without challenge, if they so desired, being
known to no ono? Our whito population in the
South are too honorable to do this, but could
not five hundred or even five thousand negroes
in largo negro counties scatter out and so vote?
They have no distinguishing features. Thoy are
nondescripts and tho very persons to do such
things. They differ about as much as two
black. .eyedpeas in appearance and features. It
may be said they cannot vote without swearing
. lilo. To many of the negro race this appears
to be no obstacle. In the Charleston election
cases one juror swore on his voire dire that he
had no bias and had formed no opinion in tho
he had sworn as witnoss in the Mackoy. Conor
contest; that ho saw the managers in the net of
slufipg the ballot box, thus showing his capacity
for lying, in that lie could swear lie as to tho
stuf6ng the box, then swear lie that in that
hc had formed no opinion on matter he pro-
fessed to prove, and finally swear TINT no was
guilty of swearing lie, when he said he had
formed no opinion. Even Judge Bond ruled
him out as juror in that oase.
Again, five negroes followed man all day,
saw him vote aL four places and twice at one of
them, and yet it was proved by fifteen witnesses,
some Republicans, that the party was chairman
Of the board of managers at one precinct and
was there all day. How is Tint for lying? Old
Nick alias Satan, alias the devil, stands con-
founded before down country Radical negro
politician in lying, SO that our only protection
sgsinst illegal voting and frauds lies in rsgisra-
zion. $alee registration would be too apt To-
bs detected in several months and without !
certificate no one can vote.
Again, the Radicals say they want free |
ballot and fair count. Their party creed, says |
Melton, is opposed to fraud of all kinds. We |
think the reverse is true. What tho party can't |
buy IL takes by fraud, as shown in the Tlden- |
Hayes contest for tho Presidency. They want |
office, power, the right to plunder and the ma
3ority In Congress to protect them in IT, Is not
this trnof Look at tho whiskey frauds, the !
Credit Moblior and other hugo jobs OF Radicals, !
end whore will you find Democrats connected |
With themf The Radical party dread disclosure.
They want any and everything that is good,
but what they do not want is TO let "a party get |
into power who will lot the light in on their ad-
ministration and expose its rottcnness and cor |
SuPtion. We are g Democrat but care little |
about parties, except to see some party Of in
teligenoo, whether it be Democratic, Labor
Reform, Greenbaok or Temperance, get into
power and give us government FREQ from
fraud and hate and praotioing honesty and ad-
vocating reconciliation betweon the acclions.
In The South We believe this oan only bo dono
through the Democratic party and we should all
unite on that party at this time.
Look at some of tho best citizens of our State
dragged to Charleston and put on trial before
packed juries backed by Radical witnesses,
bittes prosecuting of6cor and judge whom
Some OF our exchanges denominate modern
Jefiays. Your oath, our oath, the oaths Of
pur most honorable citizens would weigh light
before such tribunal with that Of a negro or
white Radical convict, whose competency to
testify rested sole';y on the pardon Of our Radi-
Gal robber ex.Goyerncr, now in limbo in New
York.
Shall We SEQ these things aud not register9
Shall we see these things and di9ido on minor
FOCAL auestions? Heaven forbid. Lc: us unite.
Let us register. Let us hold our State Govern