The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-06
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the negro if he can be kidnapped by the
Loyal League and sworn to support their
party and vote only such tickets are put
into his hands by the agents of that party.
Did Congress confer the right of suffrage
on the negroes in order that few corrupt
and designing men might direct their votes
to accomplish any selfish and corrupt pur-
yose of their own2
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.
APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT, TO con-
GRESo AND THE COUNTRY.
VIII the Conimanding Gener al allow tho
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
aud 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 Congressl If the negro vote can be
cast by the Loyal League, with the appro-
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 of adventurers, 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 stOlid 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 monstrOus tyranny How
long are we to be subjected to this dupli-
cate despotism of the civil md military
power? Are we to be relieved of this
natural and barbarous punishment, only to
| be enslaved and crushed out of civil and
political existence by the Inauguration of a
years, under Radical constitution now
proposed and about to be fraudulently en-
forced upon us by a criminal conspiracy
What has become of the National Democ-
raey? Have they too disappeared before the
political Goths and vandals of the. day I?
Have they lost their power over the heart
of the country2 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 Will he not assert
his ancient title to the dominion of the eoun-
try-wil4 he not enter the great arena OF
battle and drive into the depths of the
g wilderness the swarming armies of wolves
and hyenas who now cover and dispoil the
land That this will be done in the APP
preaching Presidential contest with all the
+ sublime power of an outraged and indignant
people is now plainly written in the distor-
d ted eyes and melancholy visages of Ben
: Butler & Co. That the impeachers will be
: impeached before the august tribunal of the
T American people and exiled forever from the
control of the government, is now foretold
d in every local expression of the public voice
/. and is daily gathering the volume and pow
b er of tempest that will sweep the Radica
J. party with the bosom of destruction.
d CONCLUSION.
The Democracy of Mississippi now see ant
feel the exciting influence of this popular
power and have resolved to fight their shar
- of the great battle. Then
Saddle White Surry for the field to-mor
81 row.
e Our riders are up-our men in the ranks
and eager for the fray. Let US on to tn
e enemy at once. Let us storm and captur
lie the strongholds of the Loyal Leagues in ev
20 cry county in the State-let US release am
II restore to the freedom of the elective fran
chise their armies of oath bound prisoners
e drive the Convention conspirators and thei
candidates to the obscure dens of the Mort
whence they come-vote down their Bill c
~ denominations and assert the supremacy G
~ the State of Mississippi under our own Con
GO stitutiOn and laws