The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-22

vioa en ae - and white men engaged in the ser
80 VI the League, and visiting Won on tba
GSaSaelohs Go+es Ior the purpose OF securing you1
o.9o' VINO nave no means of living IF No,
pald by the League. The one hundred and
olghty-three Commissioners of Electihns az
polhIed by the Committee of Seven no,x, Z.
Ihe capital, are, in fact, in the service of tbe
league at six dollars per day. The Com.
nllt:ee OF Seven, at seventy dollars per dav
are In the SAME service, and ali at the
expense OF the tax payer.
noso are puDllc facts known to all obser-
roar' =; anu convict the League of retaining
men In their pay for unlawful purnosaa
Lynch. the colored preacher, is the Com
rlaneeF .in-Chief of these bold violators Of
pupllc law and private rights Egoleston
menee' Rallsback, and the other foreign fu'
gltlves, are his inferior officers. and obev bis
oIuefs. He issues his commands, and they
ooey' In his late address t. the q coloraI
voters, the following laconisms occur:
ou must vote for the constitution and
ior the men who have been selected Inv tbe
republican party to hold Office ~
n republican tickets will be provided
be sure you have Republican ticket before
ined" = ~ ''-i1l- oA''l-i1l-
Turn deaf ear to every Democratic DO
ntlcIan. The man is one thing, the politi-
clan another" Stand firm as the Union sol
oAA ONAOlO Ou0 SdlIlIR OF The Con-
teder@te batteries" The Republican partv.
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.
(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
man6aP ith o,,I \
1T is known that the negroes of the League
are obeylng 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 unnumb bered
millions for the purpose of protecting the
negroes in the free exercise of the electiv g
franchise. Congress supposed their former
masters would coerce aud intimdate 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 Congress-violate 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 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-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
tion is prohibited by article 70, page $50 of
the Revised Code, and Is punishable by fine
and imprisonment.
Freedmen lcUlored 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
deceive aud 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
Ivnch 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 to vote Tor any BODY sucn 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.
Rut Won have a remedy. Your oaths are
not binding. Go before any Judge or Justice
of the Peace, and tell the whole truth abo1t
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, or any
Military officer, re II you.tell him all the
trnth about the whole matte II is their
dnty to protect you, and relieve you from the
danger you are III.
General Mcdowell, now in command here
has the power, and it is his duty to investi-
cate this Loyal League Conspiracy-dis-
9erse 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
sIectiye franchise forever. You are now free,
and Congress has given you the right to vote,
hnt if you vote under the corrupt bargain
yon have made with the Loyal League, you
forfeit your personal freedom for two years,
to he spent in the Penitentiary--pay fine
.of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS-andalo lose
YoITR RIGHT TO VOTE, forever
If the Radical Ticket of this State should
no elected by the vote of this corrupt con-
sn;raey. their right to hold their offices will
be contested on the grounds hereinbefore
IF majority of votes should be cast by
+b;s criminal conspiracy, for the ratification
W tbe proposed Constitutions, the election
for that purpose will be fraudulent and void
able. ec Mo- +bo+ .ha
IoyaI League was the organization OF the
Rennblican party-that the League had
twentv thousand majority in the State, and
ttat the Democrats could not reclaim them
rom from their obligation TO the same the
hoast of James Lynch, that If the colored
ooo'S .s4ord firm /" "victOry Will thrill