The Southern Enterprise

Who has a Right to Vote According to the New Constitution.

Not long after the New Constitution of this State was promulgated, we took occasion in advance of all the journals of this State, to demonstrate, that after its ratification by Congress, no citizen of the State could be prevented by reason of past political conduct, from voting at all elections; and this is perfectly clear and plain to any who will read the clause on suffrage. We are glad to see that a writer in the Phoenix, the editor of the Charleston News, and other papers are showing the same fact. Gen. Hampton, also: in his public speeches, is also pointing out this very important matter, and showing that in all future elections everybody in the State can vote, without respect to party. Now, that our city paper has taken up this subject, and Gen. Hampton, we presume all the District town papers will venture to take the same ground.

If there is a single white man in Greenville District, with capacity to think and reason, that still inclines to the Radical party, this Saturday's demonstration ought to open his eyes to the motives, ends and purposes, of the carpet-baggers, white and negro. This man Whittemore, from the North, for instance, settles himself in a strong negro section of the State, and has himself elected by negro votes to Congress and has the assurance to come here to Greenville, a white man's District, to urge people to sustain his negro rule. that he may enjoy his $5,000 salary. Also the negro carpet-bagger from the North, Rainey, representing low country negroes in the Legislature, comes here, into this white region, to advise white people to sustain the negro predominance in the Legislature. Merciful Heaven! is there a white man so low as to pander to such creatures, and glory in being the understrappers of such men as addressed the negro crowd on Saturday? The very negroes themselves, before they were demoralized, used to despise that class.

We believe that there were very few white Radicals present at the meeting; they are becoming very scarce in Greenville.