The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-29

bfandon, with Gen. Lowry. that h. reoa;,,,a
q salary of two thousand five bnndred 1eS
idrs year from the Methodist church Nortb-
;ea, 70 uelleve0 20 be In pay, also. of the Rad
/ 1Sai pai " III congress. You know many col.
v;oo nien s ~ anq white men engaged in the ser.
oo VI Che League, and visiting yon on the
Plantations for the purpose of secnrino von,.
Foees, VINO have no means of LIVING IF no.
Paiu oy the League. The one hundred and
gnty-tnree Commissioners of Election. an
pointed by the Committee of Seven. now a+
Tno oapltal, are, In fact, in the service of the
League at six dollars per day. The Com.
nil'!ee o1 seven, at seventy dollars per day.
are In the SAME service. and ali at +Ia
expense OF the tax payer. '-'o
Ahese are public facts known to all obser-
Nefs' and convict the League of RETAINING
men IN their pay for unlawful purposes
Lynch. the colored preacher, is the Conn
Ihander in-Chief of these bold violators of
pupIic law and private rights Eggleston.
mchee' halls6ack, and the other foreign fu-
glGiVes, are his inferior officers, and obey his
oiuers. lie Issues his commands and thev
ooey' In his late address t, the colored
voters, the following laconisms occur:
iou must vote for the constitution and
LOT the men who have been selected bv the
republican party to hold Officer
| Republican tickets will be provided
De sure you have Republican ticket before
| ined." -
.gH" Turn deaf ear to every Democratic no.
lltlcian." 'The man is one thing, the politi
cian another" "Stand firm as the Union SOL
| diers did before the CALLING fire of the Con
federcte batteries" 'The Republican marty
our party calls you to the polls to vote." go
| to work, hunt up votes, and on the 22d day
of this month, Mississippi will be saved.
Your humble servant, and fellow citizen,
| lslgned) JAMES LYNCH"
These orders show the true relation he
tween Lynch and the ''colored voter" whom
| he has sworn to obey his mandate He
| speaks like an an oracle-a military COM
mander with power over life and death, and
| 1T is known that the negroes of the League
are obeying his orders; they are "hunting up
votes" sending boys to register, not 81 years
OF age inducing perjury to hunt up votes"
registering the same voters in two counties;
brow beating and intimidating negroes to
vote with the Loyal League; and this in vio-
lation of positive laws of the United States
! Congress overturned the constitutions of
ten States, established martial law therein,
and sent five great armies with as many
commanders at an expense of unnumbered
millions for the purpose of protecting the
negroes in the free exercise of the elective
franchise. Congress supposed their former
masters would coerce and intimidate the
freedmen. They were mistaken. The white
men of Mississippi stood aloof from such
crimes. Lynch, -Eggleston, Mckee. Rails
back and other foreign negroes and political
Albinos have seized upon the "colored yo-
ters," and bound them hand and foot, soul
and body, to vote the Republican ticket.
/ Lynch and Company profess to be the
friends of Congress and the negro but they
violate che laws of Congress-vio.ate the
rights of the freedmen, and call on the army
to support them in defrauding the negroes OF
their votes and depriving them of ii free
xercise of the elective franchise.
The Union army-the army of freedom
the army that pretends to support the cleo
tive franchise-the army that was sent here
to support the negro-with argus eyes and
Briaerian arms, stands quietly by-glves pro-
lection to the Loyal Leagues-allows them
to cast the negro vote of ten great States
make them slaves of the Loyal Leagues,
and on election days to march them to the
polls to vote the Republican ticket, in mill
tary rank and file, to the terror and intimi-
dation of all good citizens.
This military mode of conducting an cleo
tion is prohibited by article 79, page $50 of
the Revised Code, and Is punishable by fine
and imprisonment.
Freedmen coIored men of Mississippi. we
have deemed it our duty to address you
these words offriendly warning. You have
been deceived by wicked and designing me
You have been induced under false preten-
ses of friendship, by foreign office seekers
to abandon your own people and true friends
and cleave TO your enemies. Lynch, one of
YOUR own color, in part, has been selected to
deceive aud defraud you. You are ignorant
of the great crimes they have induced you
| to commit; they are the guilty culprits at
present; but if you persist IN your wicked
conspiracy after this friendly warning-if
you go to the polls and vote under
the unlawful and wicked Oaths you have
taken you will become as guilty and as Grim
| inal as they are, and must share the same
| fate.
And for what purpose are you asked by
! lynch and his wicked associates to run the
risk of going to the penitentiary, being fined
| a thousand dollars and forever deprived of
| the right to vote.
If Won consummate this crime, by voting
as agreed upon and, by keeping good your
| oaths in this respect, you will forfeit forever
| the right to vote for any body Such is the
law and if YOU persist in following the lead
of Lynch and his Albino co-conspirators,
YOU must expect to receive your doom.
Rut you have a remedy. Your oaths are
not binding. Go before any Judge or Justice
Of the Peace, and tell the whole truth about
the oaths agreements, covenants, or ALLAN
oaS of the League Ask their advice, and
thew will tell you the Law, and direct you
what TO do. Go to the Commander OF the
| Post-to Gen. Gillem, Gen. Mcdowell, or any
| Military officer, ucdT yOu--bCA I'M obAA ohN
truth about the whole matter. 1t is their
dnty to protect you, and relieve you from the
danger you are IN.
General Mcdowell, now in command rere'
has the power, and it is his duty to lnvestl'
gate this Loyal League Consplracy-dIs-
99erse them all, and punish the Offenders VINO
are about to steal your votes and conVlct
Won of a crime that will take from you tne
elective franchise forever. You are no" Iree'
and Congress has given you the llgn1 70 voGe,
S,t ;f Won vote under the corrupt bargain
ION have made with the Loyal League, you
yorfait your personal freedom for two years,
70 he spent in the Penitentiary@pay e nne
e4 ONE ~ THOUSAND DOLLARS-and lose
WoGTR " RIGHT TO VOTE, forever ,a
If the Radical Ticket of this State shouIo
80 . elected by the vote of this corrupt con,
nn;racv 20 their right to hold their ofnces %lll WI
pi' Se contested on the grounds hereinoe'ore
stated. -,otas sbould be cast by
Il ar;miral min conspiracy, for the ratlilca1ioI
of the proposed Constitution tne I eleoSiUL oo;d
Sl tpe nat purpose will be fraudulent and volo
J able. -. ofcan Mckee. that the
IovaI League was the organlzaIlon " baf sa.f
1ortu thousand majority in the Staae, .hen az,