The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-26

BRANDON, with Gen. Lowry, that he received
saialy Oh Two thousand five hundred do1.
US year from the Methodist church North
;, ae 70 uelleVed TO be in pay, also, of the Rad
ical party in Congress- You know mo r1sau
oieu men and white men engaged in the ser.
su u tne League, and visiting you on the
pl'.n OaClons 1or the purpose of securing yonr
eo.es, VINO nave no means of living. IF not
paiu py The League. The one hundred and
ignty-bnree Commissioners of Election. an
poihGed Dy the Committee of Seven. now a+
Tno oapitai' are, In fact, in the service of the
league at six dollars per day The Com,
lnittee OF Seven, at seventy dollars per dav
are In the SAME service, and ali AT tbe
expense OF the tax payer. - ''-o :,
Ahese are public facts known to all ohser-
| Fers. and convict the League of rafainine :,
men In thelr pay for unlawful purposes -
Lynen. the colored preacher is the -Com-
nianeeE ln-Chlef of these bold yiolators of
puDllc law and private rights Egrleston
mckee, Railsback, and the other foTeion fn'
gitives, are his inferior officers, and obey his
oraers. he issues his commands. and tbav
| opey- In his late address to the (" colored
voters" the following laconisms occur:
ou must vote for the constitution and
% lor the men who have been selected by the
| Republican party to hold office n -rrf ~ :,
Republican tickets will be provided. =
De sure you have Republican ticket before
you vote. Examine it and have it examin-
ined.'' .gH 7f oF -
| Turn deaf ear to every Democratic no
iltlelan" ''The man is one thing, the politi-
clan another" "Stand firm as the Union SOL
diers did before the CALLING fire of the Con
federate batteries" ''The Republican party9
our party calls you to the polls to vote.' go
TO work, hunt up votes and ON the 22d dav
OF this month, Mississippi viii be saved
Your humble servant, and fellow citizen.
| (signed) JAMES LYNCH"
These orders show the true relation be-
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 obeylng 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 Leagues 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 vo-
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 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. ..-s
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 colored men of Mississippi, we
have deemed it our duty to address you
these words of friendly warning. You have
been deceived by wicked and designing me n
You have been induced under false preten-
ses of friendship, by foreign office seekers
TO abandon your own people and true friends
and cIeave to your enemies. Lynch, one of
your own color, in part, has been selected to
deceive and 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-f
you go to the polls and vote under
the unlawful and wicked Oaths you have
taken YOU will become as guilty and as Grim
inalas 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 anu forever uepflVed vi
the right to vote.
IF Won consummRte this crime, by voting
as aoreed upon and, by keeping good your
oaths in this respect, you will forfeit forever
the right to vote for any body Such is the
low and if YOU persist in following the lead
of LYNCH and his Alblno eo-consplrators,
Won must expect to receive your doom.
Rnt Won have a remedy. Your oaths are
not binding. Go before any Judge or Justice
Of the Peace, and tell the whole truth about
tho oatbs. agreements, covenants, or ALLAN
ces of the League. Ask their advice, and
+bev will tell you the Law, and direct you
what to do.~ Go to the Commander Oh @ tne
post-to Gen. Gillem, Gen. Mcdowell, or any
Military officer, near you-tell him all the
nth about the whole matter. 1t is their
5nty to protect you, and relieve you from the
DANGER YOU are in.
uat Gssnaral Mcdowell, now in command tere,
has the power, and it is his duty to investi-
gate cat. this Loyal League ConsPlraey-dls, dis
ea po,s9 ,bont 10 steal your votes and convict
@ou ,1lT :" of a crime that will take from you the
franchise forever fHa t6s rrh ap1 yote ote
st sn4 r. yen vote under the corrupt bargain
you have made with the L0y1 or Leasus a sesp sDa
1orieio yo y.t n tbe Penitentiary--pay a fine
TO 70 ~ nNE IL THOUSAND DOLLARS-and lose
%oDR G RIGHT TO VOTE 5 tSs fGseysr stats should
II Htad sne nv the vote of this corrupt con,
seeaey De their right to hold their offices w,
he 5piieo Contested on the grounds hereinoef0re
statea. majority of votes should be cast BY o5
this criminal conspiracy for the hat,heation 1eaton
Of the proposed xll GIpSe Be fraudulent and void
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