Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-11-27
Mr.. MahOny's Reception at Du-
bgrOiIc.

Mr.. MahOny's Reception nt Du,
bUquc.
ID. a. MAuoNY, Esq. had q grand rccep
ton in Dubuque, on the night, of the 15tl
on the occasion of his return home from
his lengthy imprisonment in the Old Cap
itol Prison, at Washington. The Den,
ocratic Herald gives the following accoun
of tine proceedings:
AT seven o'clock the committee Of re-
ception proceeded to Dunlieth, and there
awaited the train. Upon its arrival, ant
the appearance of Mr., Mahony, three
times three cheers were given him, and
his hands nearly wrung off by shaking
by the excited and enthusiastic ENJOYS
Arrived on board the ferry boat, Ben
Nj. Samuels welcomed him in neat and
appropriate speech, to whom Mr.. Mahony
replied. Cheers were given for him and
Mayor Brand and e. a. Collins, of Ca
lena, who accompanied him from Galena
Cheers again, all around cheers from
the wharf still distant; cheers from every
quarter.
The bluffs were lighted up with large
bonfres bonfires made the whole city
a blaze.
Store after store displayed gitteling
array of light The Nationd Democrat,
the Herald office, in fact one-half of
Globe Hall, streamed in light. The eff
feet was beautiful
THE ARRIVAL AT THE LEVEE.
Arrived at the lcvoe huge concoursc
of citizens, to be estimated only by thou
sands, stood ready to welcome the return
ell prisoner. Cheer after cheer arose,
and were taken up all along the length
of the line for the distance of nearly a
mile. Borne on the shoulders of stalwart
friends, Mr.. Mahony was taken to the
carriage, and, preceded by the Germania
Band, the procession took up its march.
a continued succession of bonhrcs and
cheers was about all we saw or heard of
it, until it reached First street, when the
eager crowd, unhitching the horses, af-
fixed to the carriagea a rope, and pulled
it along with its living freight.
THE ROUTE.
AS lar as the eye could see, the street
was lined with people, the ladies as they
should, being out in full force. The pro-
cession, halting at the Democrat and Her.
nld Office, gave us liberal amount of
cheering, and then proceeded up Main to
Eighth, down Eighth to Iowa, down
Iowa to Sixth, up Sixth to Locust, to
Bluff, and thence to Mr.. Mahony's resi-.
lence. The houses of Mr.. Mulkern and
y. q. Hewitt, and others on the route,
were finely illuminated. AT the square
in front of Mr.. Mahony's residence
arge bonfire blazed, and here, too, had
been raised a platform for the speakers.
here Mr.. Mahony was allowed
but moment to see his family, when he
was brought to the platform, and wei.
,omed in a short but pithy
ADDRESS by JUDGE WILSON.
Mr.. Mahony-I appear before you at
he request Of your friends and neigh.
'ors, to welcome you back to your home;
o congratulate you upon your release from
he dampness and gloom of the dungeon
,pon the enjoyment of the sunshine Of
heaven, and the rights of freeman
This vast assemblage, which | have the
,un0r to represent, and which any man
should rejoice to call friends, never doubt
I'd your loyalty, and is composed of as
rue and loyal men as ever breathed the
Ireath Of life. The Democrats of Du-
'uque county, like Democrats everywhere,
Who have contended for "the Constitu-
ion as it is, and the Union as it was"
lave been called traitors because they fa-
'ored the suppression of the rebellion by
egal aid constitutional means. The
harge of treason was once a grave
harge, and the traitor was consigned to
verasting infamy; now it is applied to
no in the army who have been wounded
or life, fighting in the army, because
hey dared to entertain and assert their
Democratic principles. They who ap-
by the name bost that it has been their
fort for sixteen years to destroy this
Government TO this school belong the
eaders of the abolition party Of Iowa,
md to this class belong the men who, in
darkness and secrecy, caused your arrest
The news of your arrest struck the people
With astonishment, and the inquiry went
broad from the people, from your friends,
What is the charge? When a man is
ragged from his bed in the darkness of
he night, such questions will be asked
What is the specific charge let us see it!
But no answer could be found. Where
we're the men who made them? Groans
or them. Did any one ever know any
Who made the aflidavits ? | never did
nlv as vauge rumor. Why did not
heSe patriots come out, and in the face
# day show what you had done?
Where were the manufacturers of affi-
avits? Why didn't they make good
heir charges? No grave was ever more
ient than they. No owl in tie hollow
# tree ever preserved such death like
Hence. l have right to infer from the
act that the charge against you, whatev-
+ it may have been, was false, from the
act that no one made it good, and because
he telegraph from Washington, which
S under control of the Government in
orms the world that you were "honora
ly discharged"
Here Mr.. Samuels read the documents
efered to.
This cordial reception by friendly
carts is worth months of privaton and