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

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. and orphans, whose expenses will bs enefs
mously Increased and their business there
by delayed Gd infeRitam-
No property qualification is required for
jurors In any case, thereby permitting laud
cases to be adjudicated by negro paupers to
the injury of the landowners.
NO EDUCAT ONAL QUALIFICATION
FOR NEGROES FOX - YEARS. t
Although an enormous fund is to be raised
out OF the property of the white race to
force the education of the negroes in the
same schools with the whites, no education
al qualification is required for roters or Jurors
and by the wholesale Observation-Disclosures OF
the whites, the liberties of the people will
be In the hands of the ignorant negroes who
are sworn in the Loyal Leagues to be the
political slaves of their Radical masters.
BY the terms of this Constitution, no
amendment of the same can be made re-
curing an educational qualification, or even
an intelligent understanding for voters I'M
til the year eighteen hundred and eighty
i've The barbarous motive here displayed
is palpable. The registered negro vote Is in
the majority. They are ignorant, and likely
to remain so in despite of the unsought hon
ors and emOluments thrust upon them
They have no capacity whatever for govern
ment, and these Loyal League manipulatOrs
and kidnappers will necessarily be the chief
recipients of the honors and emoluments of
the State for period of twenty-seven years
IN other words life estate for the Conven-
ton carpet baggers. For this horrible
period we shall have the unbridled reign of
ignorance over knOwledge-vice over virtue,
and crime over innocence.
BARBAR0US PENAL CODE-EX POST
FACT0 LAW.
In short the felonious designs of Ben.
Butler & Co, entrusted for execution to the
''drOp-shOt-gang" of the late federal army,
whose special duty il was to despoiI the
Southern States to the last point of human
endurance, crops out in bold relief from all
parts of this, the most ingenious, audacious
| and b&rbarous continuance ever devised as
form of government for civilized people
! 1t is falsely and fraudulently denominated
"a form of civil government" 1t is simply
a barbarous penal code for the punishment
of the white race of Mississippi, because
they had the manly courage to assert their
constitutional rights against the corrupt
usurpations of the Radical party in Con-
gress, and when driven to the wall, to main
tain the principles of tie Constitution of
| United States by force of arms 1t is Grim
| inal legislation after the fact creating po-
litcal offences and providing punishments
! therefor never before known, and is in di-
rect violation of that clause of the Constitu-
tion of the United States, which prohibits
| u pOob JuCto la" o.
COST OF COVENTION-TAXAT
The Convention was guilty of the most
unblushing and corrupt extravaganza alike
! in the per diem of its members-its appro-
priations to political presses established at
/ the expense of the people for its own uses
! its allowance of eXtOrtionate printing bills
at the rate of $4,000 for a Job worth only
s. 900 at most-the extension of its session
from period of three days, all sufficient for
its legitimate purposes, TO one hundred and
thirty-three days, and by all these corrupt
devices taxing the already over burdened
and exhausted people to the estimated
amount of a quarter of a million of dollars,
to be Immediately collected, and ifnot paid
to be enforced by the military power of the
United States now present among us.
LOYAL LEAGUE CONVENTION.
Last though not least in the black cata-
! logue of its Infamous devices is the evident
adaptation of all the governmental powers
and official patronage of the proposed gov
eminent to the political ascendency of the
Loyal Leagues, composed as they are chiefly
of negroes sworn under the pains and penal
ties of perjury, as we are reliably informed
to support til cir brethren of the Convention
in all their measures. Having DISTINGUISHED
large portion of the white vote by requir-
! ing an oath which few men can take, and
/
| iority of registered voters, and sworn them
to vote the Radical ticket, the seizure or the
political power and revenues of the State.
and the adoption of such legislation as will
perpetuate their negro despotisms, is, to
their minds, an accomplished fact. They
boast of twenty Thousand majority with
| brazen and defiant confidence, and feel no
apparent concern about the result.
The Loyal Leagues elected the members
| of the ConventiOn--the proposed Constitu-
ton is their legitimate offspring-they feel
bound to support it, under the
delusion of the unlawful and cor
rupt oaths administered to them
! Enough is know of the Loyal Leagues to
condemn them as criminal cOnspiracies
against the freedom and purity of the cleo
tive franchise, and an unlawful restraint on
the electors themselves. In fact the negroes
/ do not vote-it is the LIE ague that votes for
them.
CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY-INDIC ABLE
OFFENSE. t
Conspirators are those who confederat
and bind themselves by oath, covenant, OF
4 other alliance, to do an unlawful act, OF
even lawful act for unlawful purposes
Chitty's Grim. Law, 1873. Societies taking
unlawful oaths, are deemed unlawful com
binations. lst Russ on Crims. 277-S, 25I.
| The exercise of the elective franchise is
from threats, intimidation, compulsiOn, OF
illegal combination. The intention of the
laws is, that every elector shall vote accord
ing to the dictates of his own free will.
Under our form of government the cleo
tive franchise is considered the most valua
BILE of all public rights, and persons unlaw
fully interfering with the free and unpreju
diced exercise of the same, are held to bt
criminals of high character. The offer o
gifts or REGARDS to influence the vote of al
elector, is punished with disqualification fo
any office of profit or trust exclusion from
suffrage and Imprisonment in the penitentiary
not more than two years, or in the county
: Jail one year, or fined a Thousand dollars, o.
both, at the discretion of the court. Code
$40, art 81. That the managers of the 10y
al Leagues have committed this crime, on
most gigantic scale, there can be LITTLE
doubt The fact that they have sworn al
the feedmen in their lodges to secresy, ant
threatened them with criminal prosecution
, if they divulged the secrets of the order, i
: ev de nee of criminal intent-that they wer
promised forty acres of land and a null
; and other rewards before the Convention
I election is a matter of confirmed notoriety
; Our statute provides as follows: Art. 80
: f'FWhoever shall procure, or endeavor to pro
g cure the vote of any elector, or the influence
of any person over other electors, at an,