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DOCUMENTS for the Circulate. 't I- B23 and DAILY CLARION 3 3R- -A- JCNB 6, 18C8 SPEECH OF GEN. JNO. D. FREEMAN.

The HoguM Constitution IMssected und Exposed. We have alluded to the able speech of fien. freeman before- the Democratic As sociate ami citizens generally, delivered iu the Representatives Hall, on Saturday evening last, and we have now the pleasure of laving before our readers a correct report of it: DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES. Gentlemen At a former meeting ot the association, a resolution was passed requester Judge Johnston and myself to address you on the topics of the election, soon to be held to ratify or reject the Constitution proposed by the late Radical Convention. By the Constitution of the Democratic party, adopted throughout the State, we are required to support the Constitution of the Uuited States-aud of the State of Mississippi, and all laws passed in pursuance thereof.

It has ever been the province of the Dem ocratic party to defend the constitutional rights, and especially the reserved rights of the people. The Bill of Rights of the State Constitutions reserve certain inalienable privileges, which are excepted out the geueral powers of government. These are emphatically the people's rights, and the Democratic party had its origin in the de-feuce of these lights in the early history of tke United States, and maintains that posi tion to-day. Hence it is that while many ntWr parties have arisen and fallen, the lHuvmes, wai iree while male officers, without any occupation what- mously increased and their business there-I Under our form of government the elec- of what valne is the elective franchise to 1 me age ot twenty-one years and ever a forced social, civil and political by delayed ad infenitum. five franchise is considered the most vaTua- the negro if he can be kidnapped by the IT snail De a citizen of the equality between the black and white races; No property qualification is required for ble of all public rights, and persons unlaw- Loyal League and sworn to support their United States ard shall have resided in this negro officers, spies and detectives, in all jurors in any case, thereby permitting land fully interfering with the free and unpreju- party and vote only such tickets as are put uuo 3 ear uexi preceuing an election, the dep rtirents of the government the cases to be adjudicated by negro paupers to diced exercise of the 6ame, are held to be into his hands by th agents of that party.

ana tne last lour mouths within the county, oath bound Loyal League established by the injury of the land-owners. criminals of a high character. The offer of Did Congress confer the right of suffrage city or town, in which ho offers to vote, shall law and protected by military force a sys- NO EDUCAT OXAL QUALIFICATION or retrards to influence the vote of an on the negroes in order that a few corrupt UB a. quanjita eifctor. tem of taxation unparalleled and beyoud all OR NERuES FOK 2, l'LAhs.

elector, is punished with disqualification for and designing men might direct their votes an iB-iug cut tne worn unue, in the endurance. A brave, virtuous and enlight- Althpngh an enormous fund is to be raised any office of proht or trust, exclusion from to accomplish any selfish and corrupt pur- urst une oi mis clause, it woul include all ened people reduced to penury and political out of the property of the white race to suffrage and imprisonmen in the penitentiary yose of their own iree maie persons ot the age ot. twenty-one degradation, or compelled to raise the force th nf th ncrroes in the not more than two years, or in the county It is known that the members of the late years and upwards, of whatever race, color standard of rebellion and slay the oppressor same schools with the whites, no education- jail one year, or fined a thousand dollars, or Convention were elected in this manner by ana previous condition, and this would have throughout the limits of the State. al qualification is reauired for voters or jurors both, at the discretion of the court. Code the negro vote, and this alone should con- been a lull adoption of the act of Congress Such are some of the leading tesigns that and bv the wholesale disfranchisement of 579- art 37.

That the managers of the Loy and a compliance with its terms. crop out from the Bill of Rights, and its the whites th( liberties of the people will I a Leagues have committed this crime, on a The first section of the bill of rights of cennections with th Leo-UlativA And Ex- I most L'iffantic scale, there can be little the present constitution also declares "That cutive DeDartments- e- i. all freemen when thev form a social com- pact, are equal in rights." As the negroes were made free. by special ordinance, appended to this constitution in August, 18G5, they are included iu this declaration of the bill of rights, and hence it is seen that the only objection which Congress ever made to our present constitution could have been remedied by the convention, by striking out the said word white; and this work could have been accomplished within twenty-four hours after the convention assembled, and the body could have adjourned with three days after its organization, with ita work all complete and at a trifling expense to the State. REPEAL OF STATE CONSTITUTION REJECTION OF BILL OF RIGHTS.

Such, however, was not the purpose nor the line of conduct pursued by this most remarkable body of men. They claimed and asserted jurisdiction over the entire body politic. They have declared a total repeal of the present constitution and adopted another radically different in manj vital particulars. Sections 1.2, 5, 21,25, 26, 27 parts of section 19 and 29, and the conclusion of the Bill of Rights are entirely omitted. These omissions are as follows: Sec.

1 That all freemen, when they form asocial compact, are equal in rights; and that no men, or set of men, are entitled to TEST OATH WHITES DISFRANCHISED, political slaves of their Radical masters The test oath for electors, in addition to By the terms of this Constitution, no the ordinary form, requires the voter to swear amendment of the same can be made re-that he is not disfranchised in any of the quiring an edcarionaJqnalfication, or even provisions of the acts known as the re-con- an intelligent understandirg for voters, un til the year eighteen bundled and eighty- five. The barbarous motive here displayed is palpable. The registered negro vote is in the majority. They are igncrant, and likely to remain so in despite of th unsought honors and emoluments thrust upon them. They have no capacity whativer for govern ment, and these Loyal Leagus manipulators struction acts of the 39th and 40th Congress, and that he "admits the political and civil eqality of all men so help me God." Any intelligent man knows that all men are not civil and ditical equals the African race has never beeu admitted to a civil and political equality with any other race the barbarian races are not the equal of the civilized races men convicted of high crimes and incarcerated in prison are civilly dead? and not the equals of freemen the Indian race are not the equals of the white race.

Besides, a large majority of persons never saw the acts of the 39th and 40th Congress they do not know what those acts contain. The dis qualifications of the whites in those acts were temporary, applying only to the election then to be held for delegates to said Convention, and the approaching election, and not intended as a permanent disfranchisement after the adoption of the amend ed Constitution. let the Convention lead the public to believe that these dis- doubt. The fact that they have sworn all the feedmen in their lodges to secresy, and threatened them with criminal prosecutions it they divulged the secrets of the order, is evidence of criminal intent that they were promised forty acres of land and a mule and other rewards before the Convention election is a matter of confirmed notoriety. Our statute provides as follows Art.

39. "Whoever shall procure, or endeavor to procure the vote of any elector, or the influence of any person over other electors, at any election, for himself or any candidate, by means of violence, or threats of violence, or demn their work. APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT, TO CON- UKESa A.D 'HIE COUNTRY. Will the Commanding Geneial allow IViu same wicked farce to be enacted at the com ing election'? Will the President of the Uuited States and the Congress of the United States, wink at an enormous fraud of this character, perpetrated ou the wards aud proteges of the government 1 Was not the standing army placed over the South to protect freedmen in the freedom of the elective franchise 1 Have not unnumbered millions been spent under this pretense on the part of Congress 1 If the negro vote can be cast by the Loyal League, with the appro bation of the civil and military departments, and kidnappers will necessari be the chief I threat of withdrawing custom or dealing in then it would seem that governments were recipients of the honors and tmoluments of the State for a period of twen.y-seven years in other words a life estate for the Conven tion carpet-baggers. For this horrible period we shall have the unbridled re'gn of ignorance over knowledge vice over virtue, and crime over innocence.

BARBAROUS PENAL CODE EX POST FACTO LAW. In short the felonious designs of Ben. Butler entrusted for execution to the "drop-shot-gang" of late federal aimy, whose special duty was to despoil the Southern-States to the last point of human endurance, crops out ia bold relief from all business or trade, or of enforcing the pay ment of a debt, or of bringing a suit or crim 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 a county jail, not more than one year, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and im prisonment." inaugurated that corruption may thrive; that the negroes were emancipated that the ballot box might be stuffed with their votes by auy combiuation of adventurers, who are wicked enough to seek offices by corrupt means, and to inaugurate a reign of terror and crime, which has no example in the po litical intamy of past ages. Will the people of the Northern States gaze with stolid indifference at this, the most appalling spec tacle of the age 1 Are they deaf, dumb and blind Are their hearts made of stone and their heads of ice Will they continue to support the majority in Congress, who are Dnwinrut! nirtv has always Uiaiuiamcu no i ciiiuan ocpoiaiD puu.ni cuiwimutuuci v.i eiUOlldllb I i.m l.nt In KAn. will continue to do so un- ur.iinz.vti.,Li, uu I 11 VI til the constitutional lorms oi guve.u"-shall have succumbed to despotic power.

The recent attempt of the Radical party -h and remove the President, was an effort, by a two-thirds majority, to overthrow the Executive Department of the Government and install a despotism of numbers over the the constitutional form of government. Although President Johnson was jelectea to office by the Radicals, in opposition to the Democratic candidate, the Democratic party sustained him in opposition to the Radical party, and the result is that the Constitution is maintained aud anarchy prevented. The principal charge against the President was his vetoes of the several reconstruction acts of Congress. By the Consti- tution of our party, we hold tneseacta sideration of public services. Skc.

2. That all political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority aud established for their benefit, and, therefore, they have, at all times, an inalienable and indefeasible right to alter or abolish their form of government in such manner as they may think expedient. 8ec. 5. That no person shall be molested for his opinions ou any subject whatever, nor sutler auy civil or political incapacity, or acquire any civil or political advantage in consequence of such opinions except in cases provided for in this constitution.

Sec. J9. No conviction for auy offence shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture of estate the Legislature shall pass no bill of attainder. Sec. 21.

That the estates of suicides shall descend or vest as in cases nf natural death; aud if any person shall be killed by cas-na ity, there shall be no forfeiture by reason thereot. qualifications are permanent, and make parts of this, the most ingenious, audacious and barbarous coutrivsnce ever devised as a form of government for a civilized people, It is falsely and fraudulently denominated "a form of civil government." It is simply a penal code fr the punishment of the white race of ssissippi, because they had the manly courage to assert their constitutional rights against the corrupt usurpations of the Radical party in Con gress, and when driven to the wall, to main tain the principles of the Constitution of United States by force of arias. It is crim inal legislation after the fact creating po litical offences, and providing punishments therefor never before known, and is in di rect violation of that clause of the Constitu tion of the United States, which prohibits ex post facto laws. them so by the proposed Constitution, without any authority from Congress for that purpose. This oath is unnecessary, absurd and wicked to the last degree.

It is evidently intended to confuse and defraud conscientious minds, and to exclude a majority of white men' from the polls, while the negroes, under the supervision of the Loyal Leagues and the Convention Election Committees, can be made to swallow it all in the blindness of their unmeasured ignorance. NEGRO OFFICE-HOLDERS. In this connection it is also provided "that no person shall be eligible to any office of profit or trust, or to any officp in the militia of the State, who is not a qualified elector." Th's is intended to put the negroes in the military commands, with the whites in the ranks negroes in the offices By our statute it is further provided "that the legitimate authors, the putative fathers if any person shall offer or give a reward to I of this marvellous wickedness 1 Will they another for the purpose of inducing him to I allow their standing army to be used in persuade, or by any other means, not amount- support of such a monstrous tyranny How ing to "bribery procure any person to vote at I long are we to be subjected to this dupli- any election, for or against any person, the per-1 cate despotism of the civil i.nd military Bon so erivine or offering, and he who shall power I Are we to be relieved of this nn- 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 579. art.

38. That this statute fully covers the gigantic frauds of the Loyal Leagues, in the elective franchise, there can be no reasonable doubt. That they procured the freedmen, by means of unlawful oaths ana false promises of rewards of a political and pecuniary nature, to vote for the Radical candidates and against the opponents at the Convention election, and that they have perfected this scheme and enlarged its crim- natural and barbarous punishment, only to be enslaved and crushed out of civil and political existence by the inauguration of a negro despotism for the next twenty-seven years, under i Radical constitution now proposed and about to be fraudulently enforced upon us by a criminal conspiracy. What has become of the National Democracy 1 ave they too disappeared before the political Goths and vandals of the-day? Have they lost their power over the heart of the country 1 Can they no longer rally the people when the life of the nation is in danger? Will not the old Democratic lion arouse from his lair 1 Will he not assert his ancient title to the dominion of the country wiL he not enter the great arena of battle and drive into the depths of the COST OF C07ENTI0N TAXATION. The Convention was guilty of the most jnai proportions for the election on the 22d of Governor, Lieutenaut Governor, Judges unblushing and corrupt extravagance alike is a fact of which they publicly boast, of the Supreme.Circuit and Chancery Courts, a the per diem of its members its appro- anj no reason is perceived why Gen.

Gillem 24 No standing armv shall be kept and all other offices of profit and trust, and priations to political presses established at should not break up the lodges and disperse wilderness the swarming armies of wolves 1 1 ,1 lri tTH lift TO 1 1 1, i nf niri ni I 1 .1 nri il tKa nrrtTtnaftf 1 Prtnfitltllt.Jnn ll 4 1 I Ji nTmincii rt npAnln f( IT ltfl OWil 11SPS I 1 I awl lirAnna 1-1 aaitqi nrA 1ieril ViA UUC1 tnStltUtlOnai aiSO, iUU 1 I I WIIUUUU LUC MIOI- I UUIO tU HJ-J I I 11 UUO'liaiUl O. I UU UJ JJWT, CI CUU UlDu the discussion of the acts of the late Radical I Sec. 23. That no soldier shall, iu time ot app0rtioned the Legislative representation its allowance of extortionate printing "ills CONVENTION COMMITTE'' OF SEVEN, land 1 That this will be done in the ap Convention in this and the Constitn- peac 4-i Vn tTn of war as to give a large representation to the ne- at the rate of $33,000 for a job worth only AT SEVENTY DOU AKS PER DAY tion it has proposed for the ratification or nner to be prescribed by law. gro counties, and a small representation $2,000 at most the extension of its session In addition to the Loyal Leagues estab- h- rpnnle.

I Sec. 2. That no hereditary emoluments, where the whites predominate. A more from a period ofthree days, all sufficient for lisbed all over the State, the late Convention We held in common with the Democratic privileges or honors shall ever be granted or 8namefui gerrymander for a fouler purpose its legitimate purposes, to one hundred and appointed a committee of five increased ua eat nf Missis- couierieuiu mia oiitt-r-, party everywnere. iuai sippi alone has the power tc form, alter or was never conceived, and yet this system is thirty-three days, and by all these corrupt now to seven, as we are informed with pay proaching Presidential contest with all the sublime power of an outraged and indignant people is now plainly written in the distorted eyes and melancholly visages of Ben Butler Co.

That the ioipeachers will be amend her constitution THE AMEVDED CONSTITUTION OF It ABOLISH ED SLAVERY, AS PRO TECT KD RIGHTS tutiuu. 1S65 any pretence whatever. TLe rejection of all these important provisions of our present bill of rights, neces- Immediately after the surrender of tfce sarily gives the Legislature supreme control Confederate armies, the Legislature was over au tnese convened by Gov. Clark, tor tne purpoq calling a convention of the people to amend these inestimable liberties and as a large the constitution so OT Pin oMdntl frnm this Kf.atA RMflll not bo nrohibited nor shall an free white proposed as a permanent organization of devices taxing the already over-burdened This committee are author- impeached before the august tribunal of the citizen of this State ever be exiled under I government, and irrepealable at least for and exhausted people to the estimated I ized to appoint three commissioners for American people and exiled forever from the to the number of out most useful and valuable citizens are disfranchised and deprived of holding office by the proposed Constitution, we are at liberty to suppose a preme design of tho Convention to persecute and punish this class of persons to any degree that malice may invent. The Legislature is also given unrestricted power over the organization of the militia, and are required at their first session to make it immediately effective.

The Legislat-ire is required to convene soon after the election to be held on the22d of June, next. There is no limit placed on the terms of its session, or the compensation of its members. The terms of all county, township and precinct offices are made to expire in thirty days after the Constitution shall be ratified. All these offices are to be filled by the Governor, and are to continue iu office until the Legislature shall provide by law for an election of the same but no time is limited within which the shall perform this duty. The Radicals, through the instrumentality of the oath-bound freedmen now sworn into their nv-l TAtmes.

claim twenty thousaud majority in the State. They are perfectly confident of success; they expect to wield all the despotic powers of the proposed Constitution for their own emolument, and the oppression of the people. LEGISLATIVE DESPOTISM. fhnrnnosed Constitution is chiS0 the negro. These acts provided espect a perpet.

me negroes should rote tbe Legislature, with an enor- lnte Sectors, no d.sfranch.sed, for the 6e88 press, which is delegates to the convention to be assembled the same Constitution, to under said acts-and that when said con- prov uled Tentiou should adopt a coustitutioxtend islative patronage; a standing mg the elective franchise to all male adults, er va of whatever race, color or previous con- army v. a Legislative consent ior iue kucjw Kuy eminent to keep a standing army lere also; a continuation of all the county, township as to contorm Constitute vi of the United btates in au particulars. This Legislature was not permitted to act upon the subject. Gov. Clark was arrested and imprisoned.

Gov. Sharkey was appointed in -his place. The latter, at the instance of the President, called a State convention to adopt a constitution. This convention assembled in Augu 1865, and adopted a constitution Republican in foi in abolishing slavery, protecting the rights of freedmen in all respects, but not conferring on them the elective franchise. Under this constitution the Legislature couveued.

The State was regularly organized in all its departments. All State officers were duly elected, and Congressmen and Senators were also elected and sent on to represent us in the Federal Government. Our Representatives were rejected on thegrouna that the freedmen were not allowed to vote. CONGRESS EXTEND1 ELECTIVE FRANCHISE lO FREEDMEN. Congreos then passed and submitted to the States for ratification, "What was called the 14th article, as an amendment of the Constitution of the United States, intended to confer the elective franchise on the Leed-men.

This was rejected by our Legislature. Then came the Reconstruction acts tbe Object of which was to compel the people of MississiDoi. with other States, to enfran- twenty-seven years, if adopted. amount of a quarter of a million of dollars. each county, at the same wage's of registrars AMALGAMATION OF RACES.

1 to be immediately collected, and if not paid to attend the election in each county, and We have thus seen that the late slaves of to be enforced by the military, power of the report to the committoe. Inasmuch as Gen. the State are to be exalted to all the offices, United States now present among us. Gillem has sole charge of the election, with honors and emoluments, and hold in their LOYAL LEAGUE CONVENTION. his military force, and has made ample pro- power all the appointments and patronage Last though not least in the black cata- vision for same, this committee and of the State.

They are also, by express pro iogue 0f -lt infamous devices is the evident commissioners of the Convention have no vision, thrust into all the public convey- of all the erovernmental power? I lawful duties to perform. They are not au- ances and places of entertainment, and thus ttn(1 nfRt natronaire of the proposed cov- thorized by the acts of Congress, nor by ditated socially, as well as civilly and politicallv, erument to" the political ascendency of the military orders. It is a fraud on the public elevated above the educated, rehued, enns- Loyal Leagues, composed as they are chiefly treasury oi iuis oiauj, auu ia uiauucsi tian, and heretofore governing class. of negroes sworn under the pains and penal- The school lands and educational funds tJea of perjuryf as we are reliably informed, are all appropriated to this same system ot to 8Uj.p0rt tbeir brethren of the Convention forcibly uniting and mingling the negroes among the whites in all the public and private affairs of life from the cradle to the whatever race, color or previous con dition, twenty-one years of age and upwards, said States should be admitted to representation in Consrress. The convention was ari the capital and could have performed all Legislai uon in congress.

iu fficerednriDg the will of the cordingly elected-it assembled at and precinct a uri frm all Legislature, and subject to its orders, a grave. To complete this bill of abominations, it contains no prohibition against intermarriage between the black aud white races. This, I suppose, is intended as a charitable condescension and privilege extended to the inferior and degraded white race to enable them in the course of coming generations to approach the Convention standard of negro superiority and supremacy. WTas there ever a more disgusting and criminal compound of amalgamation, miscegenation, and taxation INCREASE OF SALARIED OFFICERS. A Board of Public Works iwth salaried officers at the ill of the Legislature, a nontenant a Commissioner ot Emigration, a Superintendent of Public Education, with a swarm of new and heretofore unknown officers, detectives and spies to be appointed at the will of the Legislature are also provided for in this amazing paper, prolific aa it is with ingenious devices to rob the best people of the State of all that is honorable, respectable or valuable in life.

JUDICIARY APPOINTED. In the Judicial Department, the elective system is abolished, and the Judges of the Supreme Court are appointed by the Governor for nine year and the Circuit Judges six yean- The Boards of Police are abolished and replaced by a new system of supervisors. The Probate Courts are abolished.and that conferred on a separate Chan- established plan of the Convention to aid the Loyal League in casting the negro vote for the Radical candidates. The ouly duty requir ed of these commissioners is to "attend the election," "be present at the counting of the votes, and forward the result of the same to the chairman of said committee, within three days thereafter." in all their measures. Having disfranchised a large portion of the whit vote by requiring an oath which few men can take, and enfranchised the negroes who are in the majority of registered voters, and sworn them to vote the Radical ticket, the seizure ot the I ONE HUNDRED AND r- nf th Slat.

JU-ur fcUXHUJ, FU1UU-" jv I'KR DAY. and the adoption oisncn leg.siauou a Th. are three Commissioners for each perpetuate their negro despotisms, is, couaty at $6 per day-with time specified their miUdS, an accompiisueu iact. tWnfE. shall ond-nnd no dnties boast of twenty thousand majority with tQ perform ia wMch the public Lave any brazen and dehant connuence, anu iee no interest whatever.

i i i apparent concern aDout tne resun. Tere are Bixty.oue COunties in the State The Loyal Leagues elected the members Commissioners for each makes one of the Convention the proposed Constitn- hunared and eishtv-three Commissioners at C7 control of the government, is now foretold in every local expression of the public voice and is daily gathering the volume and power of a tempest that will sweep the Radical party with the besom of destruction. CONCLUSION. Tbe Democracy of Mississippi now see and feel the exciting influence of this popular power and have resolved to fight their share of the great battle. Then "Saddle White Surry for the field to-morrow," Our riders are up our men in the ranks, aud eager for the fray.

Let us on to the enemy at once. Let ns storm and capture the strongholds of the Loyal Leagues in ev ery county in the State let us release and restore to the freedom of the elective franchise their armies of oath-bound prisoners drive the Convention conspirators and their candidates to the obscure dens of the North whence they come vote down their Bill of abominations and assert the supremacy of the State of Mississippi under our own Constitution aud laws. 1 I crotpm nai Will vumici iuo vi uiid iui iav.w..- --auty assigned it by stnK.ng a toeducate all the ne-, eery Court, which is also establisbed-a ord from our present constitution. people by tatio toedoe rf DUTY OF CONVENHON. of salaried I and orphans, whose expenses will be enor- The electoral clause in the present consti-' "with a large tion is their legitimate offspring they feel bound to support it, under the delusion of the unlawful and corrupt oaths administered to them.

Enough is known of the Loyal Leagues to condemn them as criminal conspiracies against the freedom and purity of the elec tive franchise, and an unlawful restraint on the electors themselves. In fact the negroes do not vote it is the League that votes for CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY-INDICTABLE Conspirators are those who confederate and bind themselves by oath, covenant, or other alliance, to do an unlawful act, or even a lawful act, for unlawful purposes. Chittv's Crim. Law, 1138. Societies taking unlawful oaths, are deemed unlawful com liSnntna i.f ss on Crims.

277-8. 281 Th of the elective franchise is entire negro vote of the State, existed in i all nnalitW electors, free the Democratic party, would it not be regar aiiu cva uj i rw i i fm intimidation, compulsion, or ded as a criminal offence-would it not be illegal combination. Tbe intention of the considered as an unlawful attempt to shall vote accord, vent some fifty or sixty thousand voters 5 t'h niotM of his own free will. I from a free exercise of the elective franchise $6 per day, amounting to ($1098) one thous and and ninety-eight dollars per day, for an indefinite period of time. GEN.

GILLEM REQUESTED TO PROTECT if I The attention of Gea. Gillem, the Presi dent and Congress, is called to this whole subject with the hope that they will see the propriety of protecting the freedmen from the wolfs' embrace of the Loyal Leagues tue State of Mississippi and the United States from the public disgrace of permitting so abominable a fraud on the elective franchise, and the people Mississippi from the seizure of their government and revenues. WOULD DEMOCRATS BE ALLOTTED TO FORM SUCU A LtAULii. If such a vast and well organized conspir aev to corrupt, intimidate and control the Election Xickets Candidate. The Democratic Clubs in every county should prepare at once for printing their county tickets.

In counties where there is no press they should send the names of their county candidates to some convenient press, and -order an abundant supply, and have them delivered to the President of the Club. Let there be no delay about this important matter. County Clubs must bear in mind that legislative candidates must be able to show that they were privates in the Confederate army, or take the iron clad oath, in order to take their seats if elected. By order of the committee, JOHN D. FREEMAN, Chm'n.

Let the Fkeedmen Rememeer! Gen. Geo. C. McKee, declared, in the recent debate with Judge Pottee, at Jackson, that the freedmen were not sworn to vote for the Radical candidates; but were perfectly free to vole for any Democrat they pleased..

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