The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-19
have have been committed and when you will

lave lave oeen committed, and when you will
nave I'VE no relief from punishment.
Ano southern Conventions have ALI beep
oioo'eu ln the same manner and by the same
system of fraudulent voting. Gen. NJ
l'oWell could not perform a greater service
I 70 the country, than by summonsine Ivncb
Eggleston, Mckee, Railsback. and in fact III
the members of the late Convention hefana
MIN, and requiring them to diyuloo the
mnoie eluth about the mode Of eecting the
Diississlppl Convention, and the pre1ara-
lions now made to ratify the proposed Con
stitutlon and elect the Republican ticket.
crime OF this magnitude, committed nm
aer The pretended patronage of the Method
ISL ohnTch North. and of the virtuous and
Pious pen Butter, Ben Wade, and all the
radical BenJamites in Congress, will not he
permitted to sleep-it will be too brilliant a
geWei IN the crown of Impeachment, at
washington, and of their vain-glorIous
nraggarts here, to be lost sight of when
thelr glorious deeds are recounted and no.
lltlcal prizes awarded. We shall keep if
alive ii they do not.
Freedmen of Mississippi, your former
owners and masters have 10 quarrel with
you. The charge of Lynch and the Leagues
Cna6 we wish to reduce You to slavery, or Ill
any manner infringe your lawful rights of
person, property, education, or enfranchise-
ment- is utterly false. By our present Con.
stltutlon and laws, you are protected in all
tnese and by the acts of Congress in the
elective franchise We have lands aud
homes for you; we have timber and stock
and implements of all kinds; you have labor
10 abundance-you need employment and
hOme-we can give you these and make
you comfortable at once. if you accent our
proposed hand of friendship. United and
as friends, we eau hold aud enjoy the garden
spot of the earth, and make it Paradise for
us all.
Why then take counsel of the strangers
and oath-bound conspirators and paupers
who abuse alike your confidence and our
hospitality, and who seek your friendship
only to elevate themselves and to defraud
and ruin both you and us ? Have they any
homes, or lands, or stock, or provisions, or
raiment to offer to you or your families?
Can you live on the impoverished idea that
they are Union men and that we are rebels
lis that patent medicine for all the ills
that flesh is heir to?
When the election is over-the NJ ssisSip-
plans beaten by your fraudulent votes-your
imported friends installed in Office and the
Loyal Leagues disbanded until the next
election, what viii become of the poor freed
men whose votes have accomplished this
result Will You not be beggars at the
mercy of the very men you will have be-
trayed? Will you then ask the people of
Mississippi to treat you as prodigal sons
kill for you the fatted calf, and restore you
to the protection and comforts of their fam
lilies as in days of yore a
Freedmen of Mississippi, look before you
leap. There is an awful gulf now yawning
before you. The vote You may cast in this
election may be decisive of your fate, If
you abandon the people with whom you
have ever lived and who now invite you to
their protection for, the future, you cast
your destiny with an enemy between whom
and US there is eternal war. The system of
plunder and robbery they have inaugurated
by their Convention proceedings can never
be endorsed by any people. The entire pro-
ducts of the earth and the industry of the
people cannot support the burthens they
impose. The State and all its interests will
wither in their hands and become as sterile
and denuded as the sands of Sahara.
We herewith append the legal opinion of
Judge Yerger, formerly Judge of the Su-
preme Court of this State, and which carries
with it the authority of law.
By order of the Committee.
JOHN D. FREEMAN,
Gilman.