The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-04-24
of part one % Of the Revised Statutes

| of part one o. OF the Revised Statute
: of South Carolina Of 1898. and as ais
! required by sections 1, ), 6, 7 and o
S the aforesaid act of 1894; and in this
that they add to the causes authoriz
: ing the Legislature of said State to de
r prive the citizens thereof of the righ
of suffrage, a cause not contained ii
5 said Constitution, to wit: a failure tt
, be possessed at the time of election o.
5 certificate of registration. although
: then duly registered upon the books o.
registration: and in this, that the sew
eral supervisors of registration of sale
State are directed to open their regis
tration books after each general elec
ton for the registration only of those
. citizens coming of age and becoming
qualified as electors since such gen
eral election. and to close said books
and to keep them closed as to all 9th
er classes Of unregistered electors, with
no provision in said unconstitutional
registration laws, except the ten days
! provided for in the act of 1894 after the
registration of those coming ofage and
becoming qualified to vote for the gen.
eral election of 1882; or the general
election of 1884 or the general election
of 1886; Or the general election of 1888;
or the general election of 1890: or the
general election of 1892, failed to regis
ter at the time provided in said laws
for the registration of such voters
that inasmuch as no person shall be
allowed to vote unless registered, as
provided by the aforesaid laws, and
inasmuch as none of the said laws pro-
vide for the registration period next
succeeding their coming of age and be-
coming qualified as electors excepting
within the aforesaid ten days, said reg
istration laws do deprive all such vot-
ers of their constitutional right of suf-
frage, and all such voters are perma-
nently disfranchised, in plain violation
of their constitutional rights.
9. That by Section Two ~ of Article
One O of the Constitution ofthe Unit
ed States it is provided that the Federal
ELECTORS IN each State shall have the
qualification requisite for electors of
the most numerous branch Of the State
Legislature" That the effect of the
above quoted clause is that the Con-
stitution of the United States has pro-
yided that the qualifications of the
Federal electors in the State of South
Carolina shall be the same as those
provided in the Constitution of the said
last named State, for electors of the
most numerous branch of the State
Legislature as completely and clearly
as though each and every one OF said
qualifications wese in exact words in
corporated in the Constitution of the
United States-and your orators AYERS
that the said registration laws are in
violation Of said Section Two (2) Of
Article One % of the said Constitution
in this that they undertake to add to
the qualifications of the Federal elect
ors of the State of South Carolina,
qualifications not prescribed by the
Constitution of the United States,
and your orator further AYERS that the
said registration laws of the State of
South Carolina are in violation Of
Section One U, Article Fourteen 90
of the Constitution Of the United
States and, also, are in violation Of
Section One % Of Article Fifteen Q5)
and divers other sections and articles
of said instrument
And your orator further ayers and
charges that said registration laws are
not reasonable, uniform, Or impartial
regulation of the elective franchise
but, on the contrary, their purpose and
effect is directly and indirectly to
abridge and impede the constitutional
right of the citizens to vote to embar-
rass, render burdensome, the exercise
of the elective franchise and under
pretense of regulating to utterly de-
stroy the suffrage of your orator and a
large number of other citizens of said
State in like circumstances with him.
10. By Section Two (2) of the afore-
said act Of 1894, it is provided that the
election of delegates to the said Con-
stitutional convention shall be held on
the third Tuesday in August, 1895, that
the said convention shall assemble on
the second Tuesday in September,
1895, that such convention is called
for the purpose of revising, amending
Or changing the said State, and when
assembled, will have full power to re-
wise, alter, abridge, curtail and qualify
the right of your orator and of all citi-
zens of the said State of South Carolina
to vote for the members of the most
numerous branch of the State Legisla-
ture, and thereby to revise, alter,
abridge and curtail the qualifications
now requisite to enable your orator to
vote at all Federal elections as now
imposed by the Constitution of the
United States.
II. That W. Briggs Green has been
appointed to the Office of supervisor of
registration for Richland county afore-
said, under and in pursuance of said
unconstitutional registi alton laws;
that he is now exercising the duties
prescribed by the same. and your ora
tor has been informed and believes
that he intends to continue SC do, and
furthermore he specifically intends to
furnish and deliver to the several
boards of managers for the several pre-
cincts in Richland county, aforesaid,
to be hereafter appointed, to hold the
election OF delegates to the said Con-
stitutional convention, certain paper
writings purporting to the registration
books aforesaid Of the several precincts
to be used by said managers at said ap-
preaching election.
II. Your orator further shows that
under. and by virture of the said TN
constitutional registration laws the su
pelvisors appointed hereunder, are re-
quired to continue said partial, Toid
and Illegal registration on the first
Monday in May and June and July.
1895: and that after the first day OF
July, 1895, they are directed by Sec
ton Eight (S) OF the act OF 1894, to
furnish the managers al each pre-
clnct with one Of theregistration books
for each precinct, and 70
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