The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-13

prohibitions of the statute and common IA !
LIST. They prejudice the public and Cypress
individuals, by holding them in fear and
restraint-by corrupting. the minds If the
electors and voters, and sw caring them,
without knowledge of candidates or meas
ures, to vote for particular party, and par
ficular men and measures, regardless of the
public welfare. The latter Is the soul, life,
and existence of free government, and when
corrupted or perverted, as it is by the League
the whole system of free government fails
These Leagues extend, not only to Mis-
sissippi, but to ten States, and have con-
trolled, and are now controlling the negroe'
vote in all these States, with the same GER
taiuty 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,t to
maintain their malicious enterprises, in vio-
laton of the law above quoted m
James Lynch, the agent of the Northern,
Leagues, admitted, in a public discussion, at
Brandon, with Gen. Lowry, that he received
a salary of two thousand five hundred dol
lars a year from the Methodist church North.
He is believed to bein pay, also. of the Rad
ical party in Congress. You know many col
ored men and white men engaged in the SER
vice of the League. and visiting you on the
plantations for the purpose of securing your
votes, who have no means of living, if not
paid by the League. The one hundred and
eighty-three Commissioners of Election, APP
pointed 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 per day,
are in the SAME service, and all at the
expense of the tax payer. "
These are public facts known to all obser9
vers. and convict the League of retaining
men in their pay for unlawful purposes
Lynch. the colored preacher, is the Com
mander I'M Chief of these bold violators of
public law and private rights. Eggleston,
Mckee, Railsback, and the other foreign fu-
gitives, are his Inferior officers, and obey his
orders. He issues his commands. and they
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 :" lr..
Republican tickets will be provided
Be sure you have a Republican ticket before
you vote. Examine it and have it examin-
ined.' -ues.F
''Turn deaf ear to every Democratic po-
litician." 1.-The man is one thing, the politi-
clan another" "Stand firm as the Union sol
diers did before the CALLING fire of the Con-
federcte batteries" THE Republican party,
oar party calls you to the polls to VOTE" go
to work, hunt up votes, and on the 22d day
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 ''hunting up
votes" sending boys to register, not 81 years
of age-inducing perjury to 'hunt up votes"
registering the same voters in two counties;
brow beating and intimidatng negroes to
vote with the Loyal League; and this in vo-
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 unnumbe red
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 the laws of CoDgress-vio.ate the
| rights of the freedmen, and call on the arm
to support them in defrauding the negroes OF
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 theLoyal 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 aud file, to the terror and intimi
dation of all good citizens. ~ aalHa
This military mode of conducting an cleo
ton is prohibited by article 70, page $50 O
the Revised Code, and is punishable by fin,
and imprisonment 9i'1 s3s
Freedmen co1ored men of Mississippi. w.
have deemed iu our duty to address yor
these words offriendly warning. You hav,
been deceived by wicked and designing men
4 You have been induced under false preten
l-ses of friendship, by foreign Office seeker
to abandon your own people and true friend