The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-29
nave nave been committed. and when YOU viii

ha have peen committed, and when You win
hare W., no relief from punishment 80 go :
ue oousnern Conventions have all heen
s,'s.O9 ~ tne same manner and by the same
SSsCtn OF fraudulent voting. Gen. Nc
JoM y, eh could not perform a greater service
70 ene connIry, than by summonsing Lynch,
IEggieston, Mckee, Railsback. and in fact ali
tne members of the late Convention before
hlnl, ana requiring them to diyuloe the
Mnoie tluth about the mode of electi1f, tba-
nlsslssippl Convention, and the Dre1ara
tions now made to ratify the proposed Con
stisutlon and elect the Republican ticket
a crime OF this magnitude, committed un-
ist Church North and of The virtnons ay,a
Pious Ben Butler, Ben Wade, and all the
Radical Benjamites in Congress, will not be
permitted TO sleep-it will be too brilliant q
leWeI In the crown of Impeachment. at
W ashlngton, and of their vain-glorous
braggarts here. to be lost sight of when
their glorious deeds are recounted and no.
lltlcai prizes awarded. We shall keep it
alive if they do not.
Freedmen of Mississippi, your former
owners and masters have no quarrel with
you. The charge of Lynch and the Leagues
thaG we wish to reduce you to slavery or iII
any manner infringe your lawful rights of
person, property, education, or enfranchise-
ment. is utterly false. By our present Con-
SNAHUOAOh anu laws YOU dTb protected In ALI
these; and by the acts of Congress in the
elective franchise. We have lands and
MONIES Tor you; we have timber and stock
and implements of all kinds you have labor
IN abundance-you need employment and
home-we can give you these and make
you comfortable at once. if you accept our
proposed hand of friendship. United, and
as friends, we can hold and enjoy the garden
spot of the earth, and make it Paradise for
us all. --..s...a
Why then take counsel of the strangers
and oath-bound conspirators and paupers
who abuse alike your confidence and our
hospitality, and who seek your friendship
only to elevate themselves and to defraud
and ruin both you and us ? Have they any
homes, or lands, or stock, or provisions or
ralment to offer to you or your families2
Can You live on the impoverished idea that
they are Union men and that we are rebels
lis that patent medicine for all the ills
that flesh is heir to?
When the election is oyer-the NJ ssissip-
plans beaten by your fraudulent votes-your
imported friends installed in Office, and the
Loyal Leagues disbanded until the next
election, what will become of the poor freed
men whose votes have accomplished this
result Will you not be beggars at the
mercy of the very men you will have be-
trayed? Willyou then ask the people of
Mississippi to treat you as prodigal sons.
kill for you the fatted calf, and restore you
to the protection and comforts of their fam
lilies as in days of yore ?
Freedmen of Mississippi, look before you
leap There is an awful gulf now yawning
before you. The vote you may cast in this
election may be decisive of your fate. If
you abandon the people with whom you
have ever lived and who now invite you to
their protection for the future, you cast
your destiny with an enemy between whom
and US there is eternal war. The system of
plumber and robbery they have inaugurated
by their Convention proceedings can never
be endorsed by any people. The entire pro-
ducts of the Garth and the industry of the
people cannot support the burthens they
impose. The State and all its interests will
wither in their hands and become as sterile
and denuded as the sands of Sahara.
We herewith append the legal opinion of
Judge Yerger, formerly Judge of the Su-
preme Court of this State, and which carries
with it the authority of law.
By order of the Committee.
JOHN D. FREEMAN,
Gilman.