The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-25

vice of tbo lOo men engaged in the SER
plantations for the purpose of see5O 5Ua On Ihe
eoces, who have no means of Iiy;nn. yoer
patu oy the League. The one hnn6rad areS noS
olgnty-tHree Commissioners of Elect;o,, @uu a.'
p2oll1 poinSed Dy the Committee of Seven nov r
ghe capital are, in fact, in the service ~ az ae
league at Six dollars per day. The Com9
,seoe oi seven, at seventy dollars per dav
rss a.e ~ the SAME service, and ali at fIs
expense per OF the tax payer. y Nif'pnio0 'no
Ihese are public facts known tn oil o,,.a.e
yers and convict the League of rata;n;o- rat 49,
h9n ~ thelr pay for unlawful purposes
Lynch. the colored preacher. is tba o.,
many! dLnTo!eTln-Chlef of these bold violators of
p.1l puplic law and private rights! EoOlastor,
Mchee' cie' Rallsback, and the other foreign fu' e.,
glGiVes' are his inferior officers, and obev i;s
oiuers. de issues his commands. and they
,,otSy 10y. IN MS iate address to the "colored
'oc9' 6he following laconisms occur:
r gu must Vot6 for the constitution and
1oI 10 the men W ho have been selected nv tba
nep1nilcan party to hold office - ~ 81
Republican tickets will be provided
De sure you have Republican ticket before
ined.' ..-,-'- - ~ oA0iiilh-
-, Turn deaf ear to every Democratic DO
nClcian. The man is one thing, the politi-
cian another" "Stand firm as the Union SOL
elers dld before the CALLING fire of the Con-
Iederate batteries" "The Republican party
our party calls you to the polls to vote.' go
10 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
1hese 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-inducing perjury to "hunt UP votes"
registering the same voters in two countless
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 ngress-violate the
rights of the freedmen, aud call on the army
to support them in defrauding the negroes of
their votes, and depriving them of tt free
xercise of the elective franchise. .sl
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. lt4#
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 offriendly 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 cleave to your enemies. Lynch, one of
YOUR own color in part, has been selected to
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
I,vnch 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 I.vnch and his Albino co-conspirators.
Won must expect to receive your doom.
Rnt Won 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
what to do Go to the Commander OF the
Post-to Gen. .Gillem, Gen. Mcdowell OF I, any .I
Military officer, near you-teH him all the
4rI,tb about the whole matter. 1t Is thell
Jntv to protect you, and relieve you from the
danger you are in.
General Mcdowell, now in command fere
bos the power and it is his duty to lnvestl
cate this Loyal League Consplracy-dis
5erse them all, and punish the Offenders Wn'
aara about to steal your votes and conVie
COR r,o,, Of q crime that will take from you th'
ssIective franchise forever. You are now 1ree
ond Congress has given you the right TO Vote
a,,t e Won vote under the corrupt bargain
,,on have made with the Loyal League, yo'
SSorfa;t vour personal freedom for two years
-, .oA 10 snent in the Penitentiary-pay nm
70 S3 one ~ 1 THOUSAND DOLLARS-and los
o, WaIrR- ZIP RIGHT TO VOTE, forever
IF the Radical Ticket of this state shoul'
- a,ected by the vote of this corrupt con
10 s;racv their right to hold their ofnces WI
sphao ao5tested on the grounds herelnDefof
stated. cto, sbou1d ba cast b,
..ia - sr;minal conspiracy, for the ratiheatiol
of the proposed Constitution tae . eiee1to co;d
9, 3ar 1p That nurpose will be fraudulent anu Voio
able. - ofcan Mckee. that th
Inc Inc paDlU Isagne was the organization OF IL tn
Roy RogynhIicaa party-that the league ssats on aa
hepuph tr thousand majority in the State, 4, an
tMo.i s. tba Democrats could not reclaim 'nI, ~
tnas ennn 'iJ their obligation 60 the same nsn
boast boast of james Lynch, that II 'ne re;,I Hob, tbri
voters Voter ssstand firm, "vic'ory ..lSy;,l gild wit
the;r tUeH hearts with joy and VII ned"m gau "'
1.-, 4ba Republican banner VI ~. ~,