Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1862-11-25
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Washington. Two Judges Of Illinois Courts
are among them, who we're arrested for the
| impartial discharge Of their official duties We
rejoice to see, likewise, the release Of the gal.
liant d. A. Mahoney, the able and undaunted
editor Of the Dubuque Daily Herald, The
arrest Of this gentleman appears to have bad
| for it's object to deprive the Democracy Of Iowa
Of the aid Of his pen and his personal inau-
ence, during the late election canvass Now
! that the Iowa election is over, and that il Ia
declared Abolitionists by the fraudulent return
OF votes from Iowa regiments, whose rank
| and file were Democrats, but their officers
Republicans" Mr. Mahoney is allowed to re.
turn TO his home. His business, meantime,
has been almost ruined, and his health has
suffered from the rigors Of his confinement
We may now state that we received, midi
rectly, several communications from him while
in prison, but, as often, withheld them from
publication, knowing the cruel and lawless
severities that would be multiplied against him,
we're anything to be published from him, with
out the consent Of his jsiers We can, now,
only congratulate Mr. Mahoney in being again
at his post We trust he has lost none Of his
Gre, and we need not doubt that his resolution
is as firm as that Of the rest OF us, 10 the in.
teresis of justice and for the future security
offreedom on this SOIL to follow every vioator
Of law who has outraged our rights, by civil
and criminal process, in trial after trial, bslore
jures of our countrymen, so long as the often
ders and we do live.
10 the meantime, there are horrible cases
OF wrong still in preparation, even within the
civil jurisdiction of the State OF New York
The venerable Mr.. 0lds, of Ohio, is still sup.
posed 10 be immured in the unwholssome dup
geons of Fort Lafayette, and subjected to its
specially brutal turnkeys in shoulder straps
Ii is stated that his health has thereby been
seriously, perhaps irreperably, injured. His
''offense" was speech during the canvass in
Ohio, ot the same purport, and nowise in ex
cess, of speeches made in this city and State
in the canvass before our election. II was, in
bis case as in others the captious freak Of some
hireling, that singled him out for vindictive
perseeution-and, once victimized, the recol-
lection Of his imprisonment seems to have
passed from those by whose unwarranted Or
der it was made ~-
But why particulariEe II we begin speak
ing OF names of men horribly wronged, the
list would Gil our columns There is Mayor
Brown, of Baltimore. For fourteen months
be has languished in military prisons, dan
esrous to his delicate health. What is hia
history2 In the Baltimore riot regarding the
Massachusetts, regiment, he risked his life
and opposed the overwhelming majority Of
public opinion in Baltimore, in rescuing that
regiment from the excited mob. He then
visited Washington, and had An official inter
view with the President What did Lincoln
afterwards say Of him He said that he
"believed Mayor Brown was an honest man"
That he was more careful than some others
about making promises of what he could and
would do, but that he had fulfilled to the let
ter all he did promise in regard to Baltimore.
Why, then, did Lincoln permit his respect
full request TO bis eold-blooded, whitellvered
) and prophstically hallucinRted Secretary of
State, Mr.. Seward, to be OF no etfeot2 What
kind of Rn "honest old Abe" is that, who re-
quests bis clerk to rescind an order for the
unwarranted imprisonment Of one he "be-
lieyes TO be an honest nsn," and lets such a
request be used by his clark as eigar-lighter2
And our heart blesds when we think Of that
, venerable member of the Baltimore bar, T.
Parkin Scott. So elevated and pure is his
character, so just q man IL he, that, when oil
the Catholic Bishops Of the United States
used to assemble in Baltimore in Council,
they used to consult especially with him, in
regard to all their proposed csnonsthat might
} have reference To the Constitution and laws
of the States. Such was the confidence Of
the Catholic Hierarchy in his knowledge and
in his devotion TO his country and its laws
: Never was there a child so gentle and IN.
i, complaining as he in his barbarous imprison-
ment We saw this accomplished gentleman
I at Fort Lafayette, day after day, sitting down
, to the bad soldiers rations-inferior and bad.
ly cooked pork, served on filthy tin plates, ae-
companied by brown bread and hot decoc.
D ton of burnt rye and molasses-without milk
| called, by way OF jest coffee His scant
and thin straw pallet on an iron stretcher
was placed on the damp brick Of battery
n among the guns OF the fort, and surrounded
by men Of every degree Of social culture, and
every kind Of moral habits As an old
friend, and as brother Catholic, we had
and enjoyed, as full claim to his con6dence
: as any other Of the prisoners But never
did We heRr-never did any one hear-one
1 word Of wrath or even Of eomplaint-from
this noble confessor He suffered for hi,
. country, aud with purity Of intention we re-
/ GREETED we could not emulate, he offered the
4 sacrifice ~ a service 10 his God.
We say here, solemly and advissdly, after
full conversations with Mr.. Scott on the quea
o tions in dsbatS--hs had done nothing--con-
templated nothing not 10 harmony with thu
character of q law abiding citizen. Yet
/ having broken no law--nor contemplating
\ doing so--but, otherwise, resolved, as free
man, TO preserve tho fundamental institution
OF Ills cOuntry's freedom-not for any offenss
4 hn "as q matter preeauction, this noble
Christian patriot was ordered into an imprison
ment accompanied with unusual rgOr and
in u,ts, BY that political failure and verbose
word artist William II. Seward-who nevel
knew what patriotism or honesty meant Mr.
> Seward once on time, when be yet hopeC
= for Catholic votes pretended 10 have a wonder