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

tive franchise is considered the most vafua-
BILE of all public rights, and persons unlaw-
fully interfering with the free and unpreju-
diced exercise of the same, are held to be
criminals of high character. The offer of
gifts or REGARDS to influence the vote of an
elector, is punished with disqualification for
any office of profit or trust. exclusion from
suffrage and Imprisonment in the penitentiary
| not more than two years, or in the county
Jail one year. or fined thousand dollars, or
| both, at the discretion of the court. Code
579, art 81. That the managers of the 10y
al Leagues have committed this crime, on
most gigantic scale, there can be little
doubt The fact that they have sworE all
the feedmen in their lodges to secresy, and
threatened them with criminal prosecutions
if they divulged the secrets of the order, is
evidence of criminal intent-that they were
promised forty acres of land and mule
and other rewards before the Convention
election is matter of confirmed notoriety.
Our statute provides as follows: Art. ~.
Whoever shall procure, or endeavUr to pro-
cure the vote of any elector. or the influence
of any person over other electors, at any
|
means of violence, or threats of violence, or
threat of Withdrawing custom or dealing in
business or trade, or of enforcing the pay
ment of debt, or of bringing a suit or GRIM
inal prosecution, or by any other threat or
injury to be inflicted by him, or by his
means, shall, upon conviction, be forever
disqualified to hold any Office or place
trust, honor or profit, under the laws or con-
stitution of this State, excluded from suf-
frage, and be punished by imprisonment in
the penitentiary, for a term not exceeding
two years, or in county Jail, not more than
one year, or by fine not exceeding one thou
sand dollars, or by both such fine and i'm
prisonment."
By our statute it is further provided that
if any person shall offer or give reward to
another for the purpose of inducing him to
persuade, or by any other means, not amount
ing to bribery, procure any person to r0te at
any election, for or against any person, the per-
son so giving or offering, and he who shall
receive such reward, shall, upon conviction
thereof, be imprisoned in the common jail
. tor not more than one year, or fined not more
than five hundred dollars, or both at the
discretion of the court" Rev. Code, page
$40, art 80. That this statute fully covers
the gigantic frauds of the Loyal Leagues, il
the elective franchise, there can be ne
reasonable doubt. That they procured the
| freedmen, by means of unlawful oaths anC
false promises of rewards of political anC
pecuniary nature, to vote for the Radica
candidates and against the opponents at the
Convention election, and that they hav'
perfected this scheme and enlarged its Grim
u inal proportions for the election on the 22'
q inst, is fact ofwhich they publicly boast
J and no reason is perceived why Gen. Gillen
Ir should not break up the lodges and dispers
- the conspirators
10 CONVENTION COMMITTEES OF SEVEN
y AT SEVENTY Doll AXIS PER DAY.
N In addition to the Loyal Leagues estat
II lished all over the State, the late ConventiO
id appointed a committee of fve-increase
1t now to seven, as we are informed-with pa
I'd of $40 per day This committee are author
"a lied to appoint three commissioners fC
s. each county, at the same wages of registrar
Id to attend the election in each county, an
ne report to the committee Inasmuch as Ger
Gillem has sole charge of the election, Wit
his military force, and has made ample pr,
a. vision for the same, this committee an
at commissioners of the Convention have 4
re- lawful duties to perform. They are not a
y thorized by the acts of Congress, nor
be military orders. 1t is a fraud on the publ
Nv treasury of this State, and is manifestly
H. plan of the Convention to aid the 10y;
d. League in casting the negro vote for tt
nm Radical candidates. The only duty requi
I'd ed of these commissioners is to ATTEND tt
;r- election "be present at the counting of tt
nd votes, and forward the result of the same
~ the chairman of said committee, With
~, three days thereafter"
he ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-THRE
70 COMMISSIONERS OF ELECTION, AT
- $1.09S PER DAY.
III There are three Commissioners for eat
- county at S. per day-with no time specific
- when these offices shall end and no duti
LII to perform in which the public have al
interest whatever
Tere are sixty-one counties in the State
eiS three Commissioners for each makes o.
u hundred and eighty-three Commissioners
eel Sc per day, amounting to (Sl098) one thou
Inc and and Einety ght dollars per day, for
~ indefinite period of time.
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GEN. GILLEM REQUESTED TO PROTE(
W FREEDMEN.
The attention of Gea. Gillem, the Pre-
dent and Congress, is called to this wh'
subject with the hope that they will see
propriety of protecting the freedmen fro
AoI +ba xro1f,, auhrare of the Iova1 Teapnes
lie tue State of Mississippi and the Unit
States from the public disgrace ofpermitti
ate so abominable fraud on the elective fir,
or chise, and the people of Mississippi from
ro;n,ra &c their nnvarnment and reY.nnes