Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-04-13
Registration Register, Register

Especial attention is directed to the ndvcr-
tisement Of John G. Mickler, Supervisor of
Regi,tration, published in this issue. The
of May for The registration of voters and the
Supervisor will visit all tho polling precincts
in the county on tho days named for the
samo purpose.
To register is essential to entite you to
vote, and to have the right to vote is essential
to tho preservation Of your liberties. 1t
matters not whether you think the law is n
good or q bad one. it's passage in some form
was required by the Constitution, which, in
Republican Government, is tho charter of
che liberties of its citizens. Besides, to reg
lister before voting is the law and ull men
shonldsobey the law 1t is an old and true
saying TINT bad law we'll enforced is better
Than good law badly enforced, and until re-
pealed or modified to suit the people, we
should obey it, In refusing to register you
will be cutting off your nose to spite your face
in depriving yourselves Of oil means to rcme.
dy your grievances.
If the right 10 vote was curtniled by law
limiting it to o property or educational or
color qualification great hue and cry would
justly 60 up but hero is a law, new to US, bu t
common in the North, which requires little
act to entitle you 10 vote, and which benrs
equally on all, and shall you through pride
of liberty lose the right of freeman by ro-
fusing to comply with i,2 Heaven forbidl
Tho law is belicsed to be good one by
many, though condemned by many.
IF it gaye any race or class my privilege over
another, then you might com plain, but it
exempts no one from lie provisions VIII
you lose the highest rights of freemen by re :
fusing to perform q little act at 40 personal
expenec2 Will you submit that negroes and
scalawags shall register, elect your officers
and frame your laws, because forsooth you
do not feel like submitting to the require.
monts Of this law? What shame it would
be. No man in tho North can vote except he
registers and the little difference, if any, in
this and their law can affect no man.
Now, friends, wo speak from our heart. We
live here. Our family and property are here
The bones OF our ancestors rest in this soil
and it may be here ours, too. will sleep the
sleep that knows no waking. The same is
true of you, who read this article, and wo call
on you, ono and all, to bury past differences,
register as required by law and cast your
votes for good government. Your property,
your family, yonr future prosperity. your
educational and religious interest, all call on
and demand this of you. Will you resist the
call and put it beyond your power to help de-
wise and perpetuate such a government as
will promote not only your own security but
your highest social and pecuniary interests?
No! MOI However distastefnl tho law. and
We know it is 80 to many, obey it and lend
your help to preserve the Stato. Wo had
rather lose our right hand than to loso our
right to vote at this perilous time. We are
no candidate, and advocate egistration only
that oil may voto for good govcrnmens. In
this wo feel an abiding interest, even as we
feel an abiding faith in our people. Born
and brought up among you wo arc one of you
and " hat is your interest is our interest. We
have at all times received your suffrages
and we can never cease to respect all our
citizens.
Now friends. ono and all register and pre-.
serve your right to votO and then should you
desire to exercise that right, to ward of ruin,
you can do go.
We are thus emphatic in our request, be-
cause we have heard Of many of our best
citizens. who feeling tho law to be on abridge--
ment Of their liberties. have said they would
notregster WiMthis benefit you? Do you
not lose thereby oil your rights9 We say to
all Registerl Rogis.erll.
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formed !n q us ttat Mr.. Louis Hope 's sufferer
WIN 1henmausm tor number Of years. oh.