The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-16

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perfected this scheme and enlarged its Grim.
4 mat proportions for the election on the ed
inst, is fact OF which they publicly boast,
| and no reason is perceived why Gen. Gillem
] should not break up the lodges and disperse
| the conspirators.
| CONVENTION COMMITTEE OF SEVEN,
AT SEVENTY DOLLARS PER DAY.
In addition to the Loyal Leagues estab-
lished all over the State, the late Convention
| appointed a committee of five-increased
now to seven, as are informed-witb pay
| of SO per day This committee are author
lied to appoint three commissioners for
| each county, at the same wages of registrars
| to attend the election in each county, and
| report to the committee. Iuasmuch as Gen.
Gillem has sole charge of the election, with
his military force, and has made ample pro
vision for the same. this committee and
commissioners of the Convention have no
lawful duties to perform They are not au-
thorized by the acts of Congress, nor by
military orders 1t is a fraud on the public
treasury of this State, and is manifestly a
| plan of the Convention to aid the Loyal
League in casting the negro vote for the
Radical candidates. The only duty requir
ed of these commissioners is to ATTEND the
/ election" "be present at the counting of the
votes and forward the result of the same to
the chairman of said committee, within
/ three days thereafter"
ONE HUNDRED AND ETGHTY-THREE
| COMMISSIONERS OF ELECTION, AT
+ Sf09S PER DAY.
! There are three Commissioners for each
county at So per day-wth no time specified
when these offices shall end and no duties
to perform in which the public have any
| interest whatever.
| Tere are sixty-one counties in the State
three Commissioners for each makes one
hundred aud eighty-three Commissioners at
| So per day, amounting to (Sl09S) one thous-
and and Einety eight dollars per day, for an
indefinite period of time. 4+
GEN. GILLEM QUESTED TO PROTECT
FREEDMEN.
The attention of Gea. Gillem, the Presi-
dent and Congress, is called to this whole
subject with the hope that they will see the
propriety of protecting the freedmen from
the VOLTS embrace of the Loyal Leagues
tue State of Mississippi and the United
States from the public disgrace ofpermitting
so abOminable fraud on the elective fran
chise, and the people of Mississippi from the
seizure of their government and revenues
WOULD DEMOCRATS BE ALLOWED TO
FORM SUCH A LEAGUE.
If such a vast and well organized conspir-
acy to corrupt, intimidate and control the
entire negro vote of the State, existed in
the Democratic party, would itnot be regar-
ded as criminal otfence-would it not be
considered as an unlawful attempt to pre-
vent some fifty or sixty thousand voters
from a free exercise ofthe elective franchise
| of what value is the elective franchise to
the negro If he can be kidnapped by the
Loyal League and sworn to support their
party and vote only such tickets as are pu
into his hands by the agents of that party
Did Congress confer the right of suffrage
n N ia in tbat foyy
and designing men might direct their votes
to accomplish any selfish and corrupt pur-
yose of~their own9
1t is known that the members of the late
Convention were elected in this manner by
the negro vote, and this alone should con-
denim their work. 7tt
APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT, TO CON
GRESS AND THE COUNTRY.
Will the Commanding General allow the
same wicked farce to be enacted at the com
ing election? Will the President of the
United States and the Congress of the
United States, wink at an enormous fraud
of this character, perpetrated on the wards
and proteges of the government Was not
the standing army placed over the South to
protect freedmen in the freedom of the cleo
tive franchise? Have not unnumbered mil
lions been spent under this pretense on the
part of Congress If the negro vote can be
baton of the civil and military departments,
then it would seem that governments were
inaugurated that corruption may thrive;
that the negroes were emancipated that the
ballot box might be stuffed with their votes
by any combination ofadventurers, who are
wicked enough to seek offices by corrupt
means, and to inaugurate reign of terror
and crime, which has no example in the po-
litical intamy of past ages. Will the people
of the Northern States gaze with stohd in
difference at this, the most appalling spec
tacle of the age ? Are they deaf dumb and
blind? Are their hearts made of stone and
their heads of ice? Will they continue to
support the majority in Congress, who are
/ the legitimate authors, the putative fathers
of this marvellous wickedness? Will they
allow their standing army TO be used in
support of such a monstrous tyranny? How
/ long are we to be subjected to this dupli
cate despotisln of the civil Ind military
power2 Are we to be relieved of this I'M
natural and barbarous punishment, only to
be enslaved and crushed out of civil and
political existence by the Inauguration of a
negro despotism for the next twenty-seven
years, under the Radical constitution now
proposed and about to be fraudulently en-
forced upon us by criminal conspiracy
What has become of the National Democ-
racy! Have they too disappeared before the
political Goths and vandals of the day ?
of the country! Can they no longer rally
the people when the life of the nation is in
danger? Will not the old Democratic lion
arouse from his lair2 VIII he not assert
his ancient title to the dominion of the coun-
try-wili he not enter the great arena OF
battle and drive into the depths of the
wilderness the swarming armies of wolves
and hyenas who now cover and dispon the
! land2 That this will, be done in the APP
preaching Presidential contest with all the
sublime power of an outraged and indignant
pc ople is now plainly written in the distor-
ted eyes and melancholy visages of Ben
Butler Il Co. That the impeachers will be
impeached before the august tribunal of the
American people and exiled froever from the
control of the government. is now foretold
in every local expression of the public voice
and is daily gathering the volume and pow.
er of a tempest that will sweep the Radical
party with the Bosom of destruction.
CONCLUSION.
The Democracy of Mississippi now see and
feel the exciting influence of this popular
power and have resolved to fight their share
of the great battle. Then
Saddle White Surry for the field to NOR
row."
Our riders are up--Our men in the ranks
and eager for the fray. Let US on to thu
enemy at once Lei MS storm and eaDtIlr,