The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-15
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iostiaint-by corrupting ths minds 4 RI
'iootors and voters, and swearing them
without knowledge of candidates or maas
ures, 10 vote for particular party. and mar
'ieuiar men and measures, regardless of til,
puolic welfare. The latter is the soul. life
ana existence of free government, and ybe,
corruptedo or perverted as it is by the Leapn,
eue whole system of free government fails
lhese Leagues extend, not only to Mis-
sisslppi, but TO ten States, and have con
eroiied' and are now controlling the negroe
vote IN all these States, with the same GER
talnty and absolute power that the STANDING
army of Louis Napoleon controlled the pre.
tended vote of the French people, when by
force OF Military authority, he elected him.
self Emperor of France.
I'd. These Leagues retain men in the coun-
try with fees and under salaries and pay, to
maintain their malicious enterprises, in vic.
lation of the law above quoted.
James Lynch, the agent of the Northern
Leagues, admitted, in public discussion. at
Brandon, with Gen. Lowry, that he received
salary OF two thousand FIVE hundred dol
lars year from the Methodist chui ch North.
he is believed to lie in pay also. of the Rad
lcal party in Congress. You know MANY col
ored men and white men engaged in the ser.
vice of the League, and visiting Won on the
plantations for the purpose of seenrinp vour
votes who have no means of living, if not
paid by the League. The one hundred and
eighty-three Commissioners of Election. an
polluted by the Committee of Seven, now at
the Capital, are, in fact, in the service of the
League at six dollars per day. The Com
mittee of Seven. at seventy dollars ner dav.
are IN the SAME service, and all at the
expense of the tax payer
These are public facts known to all obser-
vers. and convict the League of retaining
men in their pay for unlawful purposes
Lynch. the eolored preacher, is the Com
mander in-Chief of these bold yiolators of
public law and private rights Eggleston.
Mckee, Railsback, and the other foreign fu-
gitives, are his inferior officers, aud obey his
orders He issues his commands. and they
obey. In his late address t, the " colored
voters" the following laconisms occur:
You must vote for the constitution and
for the men who have been selected by the
Republican party to hold Office !"
Republican tickets will be provided
Be sure you have Republican ticket before
you vote. Examine it and have it examin-
ined."
Turn deaf ear to every Democratic po-
Htlcian." ''The man is one thing, the politi-
clan another" 'Stand firm as the Union sol
diers did before the CALLING fire of the Con-
federGte 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 mouth, 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
it is known that the negroes of the League
are obeying his orders; they are bunting up
votes" sending boys to register, not 81 years
of age-inducing perjury to "hunt up votes
the same voters in two counties;
brow beating and intimidating negroes to
vote with the Loyal Leagne; 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
at an expense of unnumbere
millions for the purpose of protecting the
Fro Al
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 the laws of Congress-vio ate the
rights of the freedmen, and call on the army
to support them in defrauding the negroes f
their votes, and depriving them of the free
exercise 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
aud on election days to march them to the
polls to vote the Republican ticket, in mill
tary rank aud file, to the terror and intimi
daton of all good citizens. sA
This military mode of conducting an cleo
ton is prohibited by article 70, page $50 of
the Revised Code, and is punishable by fine
and Imprisonment
Freedmen lcolored men of Mississippi. we
have deemed iG our duty to address yon
these words offriendly warning. You have
been deceived by wicked and designing men
You have been induced under false preten
SEES 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
toeommit: thew are the guilty culprits at