The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-30

brandon, with Gen. Lowry. that ba raoa;,,a ;,
salary OF two thousand five hnndred al ~
! Iars Id year from the Methodist churcb North
70 oelleVed TO be In pay, also, of the Rad
aSa, 1Sal poi " III congress. You know MANY COL
ored men and white men engaged in tbS 60 60
vice OF the League, and yisiti3g Won -, sIc sIl-
Plantations for the purpose of securing vonp
ro;5 oo99o, VINO nave no means of living, if NOT
pald Dy the League. The one hundred anJ
eigh y-three Commissioners of Election ~
pointed by the Committee of seven now y 4 !
Ghe- Capltal, are, in fact in the service of the
league at SIX dollars per day. The Com
lliU.ee oi seven, at seventy dollars per day.
are in the SAME service. and ali at - tb, /,
expense of the tax payer. me - :
These are public facts known to all, ohsar.
Vers. and convict the League of retainino
men IN their pay for unlawful purposes
Lynch. the cOlored preacher, is the Com
llanuer ln-Chlef of these bold yiolators of
pubic law and private rights Egpleston
mckee, Raj shack, and the other foreign fn.
gltlVes' are his inferior officers, and obey his
ofders. lie issues his commands and tbev
obey In his late address t. the coloredl
voters, the following laconisms occur:
. on must vote for the constitution and
lor the men who have been selected by the
Republican party to hold office :"
Republican tickets will be provided
be sure you have a Republican ticket before
You vote. Examine it and have it examin-
ined"
" Turn deaf ear to every Democratic po-
lltlclan." "The man is one thing, the politi-
clan another" 'Stand firm as the Union SOL
dlers did before the CALLING fire of the Con-
teder%te batteries" The Republican party
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,
(slgned) 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
it is known that the negroes of the League
are Obeying his orders; they are hunting up
votes" sending boys to register, not21 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 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 ongress-vio4ate the
rights of the freedmen, and call on the army
to support them in defrauding the negroes of
their votes. and depriying them of tt e free
xercise of the elective franchise. ss..
The Union army-the army of freedom
the army that pretendsNFuha import the cleo
tive franchise-the army thsptato. cent here
to support the negro--with ar2ted upon II,
Briaerian arms, stands quietly by--gf ' Constli
lection to the Loyal Leagues, y 7res and
to cast the negro vote OF ter sls % -es pro-
make them slaves of the Loyal Leagaeul
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 70, 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 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 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
hoo ifvrn ad q ariI1
inal as they are, and must share the same
fate.
And for what purpose are you asked by
Ivneh 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 rioht to vote for any body Such is the
iaw and if YOU persist in following the lead
nf T ,vnch 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 Justlce
of the Peace and tell the whole truth about
tho oaths agreements, covenants, or allan
cos of the League. Ask their advice, and
thev will tell you the Law, and direct you
wb3t TO do. Go to the Commander of the
Post-to Gen. Gillem, Gen. Mcdowell or any
Military officer, near yoa-Ue1 nlnl All tne
trnth 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 rere,
hos the mower, and it is his duty to Investl-
cate this Loyal League Conspiraey-dIs-
9erse them all and punish the offenders VINO
are about to steal your votes and convict
Won of a crime that will take from you the
elective franchise forever. You are now 1ree'
and Congress has given you the light to vote,
Int If YOU vote under the corrupt bargain
xou have made with the Loyal League, you
| forfeit your personal freedom for two years
80 ha snent in the Penitentiary--pay nne
20 of On ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS-and lose
WoITR RIGHT TO VOTE, forever :,
If the Radical Ticket of this State shoula
ha elected bv the vote of this corrupt con,
sn;racy 90 their right to hold their offices viii
Ile contested on the grounds hereinoefore
! stated. s,,o,Id ba cast by
this criminal conspiracy, for the ratifcation
Of the proposed Constitution, the eleetion
for M that purpose will be fraudulent ana VOID
able. MoKaa that the
roval League was the organization OF .ns =
Republican party-that the League asoto an1 and