The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-19

brandon, with Gen. L Dwrv. that he raea;,,a,a
d salary OF two thousand five hundred dol
lars year from the Methodist churcb North
ne ne IS oeiieved to he in pay also. of the Rad
a Ioal par 1y lh congress. You know mapv col.
go nien e ana white men engaged in the ser.
80 Vi Cne League, and visiting Won on the
plantations for the purpose of seenring von1
o.1s' VINO nave no means of living, If not
pau oy the League. The one hundred and
oighty-three Commissioners of Election an
pointed by the Committee of Seven. now If
Ihe capital, are, in fact, in the service of the
league at six dollars per day. The Com.
mittee of Seven, at seventy dollars ner do,
are in the SAME service, and ali At t5s
expense OF the tax payer
1nese are puolic facts known to all obser-
Vers- ana convict the League of retaining
men in their pay for unlawful purposes.
Lyncn' the colored preacher, is the Com
mander In-Chief of these bold yiolators of
pnDllc law and private rights Eggleston
Mckee, Railsback, and the other foreign I'm
gltiVes' are his inferior officers, and obey his
orders. He issues his commands. and the
opey. In his late address t. the "colored
voters, the following laconisms occur:
L ou must vote for the constitution and
Tor the men who have been selected by the
republican party to hold office ~
Republican tickets will be provided
1i1e sure you have Republican ticket before
you vote Examine it and have it examin-
| ined." A
Turn deaf ear to every Democratic po-
lltlcian." "The man is one thing, the politi-
clan another" "Stand firm as the Union SOL
dlers did before the CALLING fire of the Con-
feder%te batteries" '"The Republican party.
our party calls you to the polls to vote.'F go
| TO work, hunt up votes, and ON the 22d dav
of this month, Mississippi will 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 obeying his orders; they are "hunting up
votes" sending boys to register, not 81 years
OF age-lnduclng 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 eleetiv g
| franchise. Congress supposed their former
masters would coerce and intimidate the
| freedmen They were mistaken. The white
|
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 the laws of Congress-vio.ate the
rights of the freedmen, and call on the army
to support themin defrauding the negroes of
their votes. and depriving them of I'll 9 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-gves 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
Gary 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 10, page $50 of
the Revised Code, and is punishable by fine
and imprisonment.
Freedmen culored men of Mississippi. we
have deemed it our duty to address you
these words offriendly warning You have
been deceived by wicked and designing mel
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 90 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
! Iynch 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,
Won must expect to receive your doom.
But YOU have 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
/ thew will tell YOU the Law, and direct you
ThSt to do. Go to the Commander of the
Post-to Gen Gillem, Gen. Mcdowell, or any
| military officer, near you-tell him all the
truth about the whole matter. 1t is their
duty to protect you, and relieve you from the
danger you are in
General Mcdowell, now in command tere,
has the power, and it is his duty to investi-
cate this Loyal League Conspiracy-dis-
Derse them all, and punish the offenders who
are about to steal your votes and convict
Won of crime that will take from you the
elacti We 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 he spent in the Penitentiary--pay fine
IF ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS-and lose
YOITR RIGHT TO VOTE, forever.
If the Radical Ticket OF this State should
be elected by the vote of this corrupt con,
sn;racy. their right to hold their offices will
he contested on the grounds hereinbefore
stated. ,15 - oos+ =,
=. ar;m;nal conspiracy for the ratification
of of the proposed Consultation the election ;
for that purpose will be fraudulent ana VOID
able. eo, MoKaa that The