The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-18

49, alo puunc facts known to all obser
M anu convict the League of retainin,
~ enef pay for unlawful purposes
Lynch. the colored preacher, is the Com
ndnder ln-Chlef of these bold yiolators .
pupllc law aud private rights. Eggleston
"chee, Railsback and the other foreign In
s'GiVes, are his Inferior officers and obey hi
orders He issues his commands. and tbe,
obey. in his late address c, the " colore,,
Voeers' the following laconisms occur:
iou must vote for the Constitution ant
Ior the men who have been selected by til,
republican party to hold office ~
Republican tickets will be provided. =
De sure you have Republican ticket befor,
you vote Examine it and have it examin
ined." IL
-. Turn deaf ear to every Democratic DO
litlclan." The man is one thing, the polit
clan another" ''Stand firm as the Union sol
9iers did before the CALLING fire of the Con
ieder@te batteries" THE Republican party
oar party calls you to the polls to vote &c
70 work, hunt up votes, and on the 22d day
OF THIS month, Mississippi will be saved
Your humble servant, and fellow citizen.
(signed) JAMES LYNCH
Idese orders show the true relation be-
tween Lynch and the 'colored voter whom
ne has sworn to obey his mandate He
speaks like an an oracle-a military com.
mander with power over life aud death, and
IL Is known that tue negroes of the League
are obeying his orders; they are hunting up
votes sending boys to register, not 81 wears
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 yio-
latlon 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 electiv e
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-
tiers" 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 the 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 e 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
Briaerian arms, stands quietly by--gIves 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
ton is prohibited by article 70, page $50 of
r ho Pa caH nd ha Ma nv fiO
and imprisonment.
Freedmen colored 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 II
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 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-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 YOU consummate this crime, by voting
as agreed upon and, by keeping good your
oaths in this respect, you will forfeit forever
the right tovote 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.
But 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
ces of the League. Ask their advice, and
they will tell you the Law, and direct you
what to do. Go to the Commander of the
Post-to Gen. Gillem, Gen. Mcdowell, OF any
Military officer, near you-tell him all the
truth about the whole matter. 1t is their
duty to protect you, AID relieve you from the
danger you are H.
General Mcdowell, now in command Fere,
has the power, and it is his duty to lnvestl-
gate this Loyal League Consplracy-dls-
perse them all, and punish the offenders who
are about to steal your votes and convict
Won of a crime that will take from you the
elective franchise forever. You are now free,
and Congress has given you the right to vote,
but if YOU vote under the corrupt bargain
Won have made with the Loyal League, you
forfeit your personal freedom for two years,
to be spent in the Penltentlary--pay hne
of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS-and lose
YOUR. RIGHT TO VOTE, forever.
If the Radical Ticket of this State should
be elected by the vote of this corrupt con
suiracy, their right to hold their offices will
be contested on the grounds hereinbefore
stated.
If majority of votes should be cast by
this criminal conspiracy, for the ratification
of the proposed Constitution, the election
for that purpose will be fraudulent and void
able
The public boast of Gen. Mckee, that the
Loyal League was the organization of the
Republican party-that the League had
twenty thousand majority in the State, aud
that the Democrats could not reclaim them
from their obligation TO the same the
boast of James Lynch, that if the colored
voters "stand firm" victory will thrill
their hearts with joy,' and will gid with
glory the Republican banner of freedom,
ali noint with unerring certainty to the vote
of the oath-bound conspirators of the Loyal
Leagues The proof of this monstrous crime
of the age is on record IN the proceedings OF
the LOYAL League in every county in the
State. The guilt of the chief consplrators
is now patent to all beholders, and II they
are not arrested by order of the Command
mo General before the election-if with all
this proof before him he allows this fraud
on the freedmen to be consumated-lt he
allows the honor and dignity of the United
States, and of the army under his command
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