The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-04-14
The yallandigham Revival.
THE MAHoNY BEM0CRlCY TRIUMPHANT. 4
DUBUQUE A "SECESH CITY.

At the late city election in Dubuque
the revived Democratic party, stimulated
by the Vallandigham movement at WASH
ington, carried everything before them.
The Mahony platform sympathizers had
everything their own way, and openly
proclaimed their opposition to the Ad-
ministration and their admiration of JEFF.
Davis and Beauregard. The spirit in
which they conducted the canvass, and
the frauds they perpetrated, are but =
forctaste Of what may be expected in Hi
nois and wherever else in the North the
Vallandigbam Democracy have show for
success.
The Dubuque Times says:
One curious development of this con-
test was the remarkable increase in the
number OF voters since our last election.
Last year the number of votes east was
az near $500 40 you can estimate it. Last
fall the number Of votes polled in the city,
including the FIVE Wards and Julian town,
ship, was less than 2400. Since the last
municipal election at the lowest calcula-
tion three hundred Of our citizens have
gone away as soldiers, yet on Monday
last there were 26l4 votes polled here.
There could not have been less than
from $50 to 800 illegal votes cast here
Doubtless much Of this was done by the
Democracy going from one Ward to the
other, and casting votes in each. A Reg
istry law would have been = good thing
to have had just about that time. There
is no use of whining about it now though.
We shall know how to take 'em next
time.
The only cause for serious morti6ca-
ton in this defea. is in the class Of men
by whom we have been beaten. Az an
example Of their IRRESPONSIBLE inclinations
it is notorious fact that during the after
noon and evening of election day scores
and hundreds of men were swarming the
streets cheering for JEFF. Davis, the South
ern Confederacy, Beauregard, D. A. Ma
hony, the Ierrimac, etc, etc. In the
evening one Of the Herald proprietors,
decorated with the secesh colors, enter
tanned large crowd in the Nebraska Sa-
loon, with the classic air Of "Dixis," exc
cuted upon the fiddle. An employe Of
the same Office, wearing q cap conspicu-
ously ornamented with the letters c. s. A.,
accompanied the violin with the "bones."
Dancing, brawling, fighting, maudlin,
drunken speechifying, groans for "Old
Abe" and shouts Of "Down with the Ad-
ministration,' were heard there till nearly
morning.
Dubuque is a sample Of what vallan-
digham, Mahony, Geo. W. Jones, and
that class of Northern sympathizers with
treason, would make of the Democracy
and the people of the entire North if they
were permitted to have their way.
The editor of the Times closes his no.
tice Of the defeat Of the Union ticket there
in the following terms:
Never before in the history of Dubuque
did there occur so bitter and desperate a
municipal election contest as that which
was witnessed here last Monday. The
Union men, confident in the justice Of
their cause. and intending to be guided
by honor aud by law themselves, made nj
preparation for the scenes that awaited
our city on that day. Limitations had beer
given that the Knights Of the Colder
Circle were at work preparing 70 carr,
the Breckenridge ticket at all hazards, ant
that weeks ago colonization had been be
gun in the lower portions Of the city, bn
honest men could not believe that the in
timations given were founded on fact, anc
hence no adequate precautions were Ia
j ken to preserve the purity Of the ballot
box from the violence and rufianism tina
carried the city last Monday.
Our readers will find in the local de
partment scenes and incidents Of the day
at more length.
Monday night no well-known Unio,
man was safe on the street, and on Tues
day morning crowd of cut-throat lookins
ruf6ans, clothed in rags and dirt, huns
around The Herald efiee corner, hootinJ
at and insulting Union men a. they
passed.
Such scenes as were enacted in this cit,
last Monday and part Of Tuesday, by thu
lower scum Of secessionists, would dis
grace population of Fee Jee Islanders
May our city never witness the like again
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