The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1862-11-18
MahOny Released.

Az lhe government mas released
DENNIS A. MAnoNY and other political
prisoners, having, the telegraph reports,
honorably discharged them. MAHoNy
arrived home on Saturday night last, and
OF course was warmly welcomed by the
tories Of Dubuque. The speech of wei
come was delivered by that "pink Of
loyalty" Judge WILSON, who eulogized
MAHoSy as if he had never gone about
the country, previous to the late eletions,
declaring he had no sympathy with him.
and who talked the slang Of party as gil
bly, as if he had not persistently sought
"Abolition" votes by representing him
self as o-party man. SAMUELs and
JONES and LEWIS and QUIGLEY, and all
the big and little traitors of Dubuque,
were out, of course, to show their venom
towards the government.
If DENNIS A. MAHoNY can be honora.
bly, acquitted Of the charge Of treason,
ia the name Of all that is reasonable who
shall he convicted? If there has been
man who has stood by the leaders
of this rebellion more unfaltelingly than
he, we should like TO know it. If there
has been one man, who, to the extent Of
tie influence Of his position. has lent
himself more unswervingly to the inter-
ests of treason than he, we should like to
have him pointed out. He was one Of
those hatchers OF treason who made re-
bellion possible in the South, by persist
ent lying about the aim and intentions of
the Republican party and Of the new ad-
ministration. He was one Of those das-
tsrdly wrelches who supported the South
in all their arrogant demands made after
their Presidential defeat, and upheld and
encouraged all their threatening demon
STATIONS against the government. He
did everything that man could do, af
ter the fall of Sumter, to destroy the feel
ing of enthusiasm for the government,
and to break the chain of Northern unity
and loyalty. He openly advocated the
independence Of the Southern States, and
the right of secession. He declared him.
self against the old Constitution Of the
Republic, and favored the adoption of
the Montgomery Constitution Of the
Southern Olgarchs. He advocated kick
ing out Of the Union the New England
States, and declared that we could never
have national peace and happiness until
this is done. He opposed every effort OF
the government to possess itself of its
forts and arsenals at the South, and Bit
terly denounced the blockade Of the
Southern ports. He denounced the call
ing out OF the troops by the President
for the national capitals protection.
There has been no rebel pretension that
he has not endorsed. and no loyal effort
that he has not tried to belittle. He has
constantly charged usurpation of rights
and Of power upon The government, and
invited and urged warfare upon it,
and a discontinuance Of that against the
rebels. By every form Of lie, by every
species Of misrepresentation, has he tried
to stop enlislments. and to withdraw sym
pathy and support from the government.
Every day, in multiplied ways, while
editor Of tho Dubuque He aid, did he
seek to bolster up the cause of treason
and to break down The cause Of the gov
eminent and Of the Union. These facts
the people Of Iowa know, and no matter
what has been the decision of the gov
eminent upon his case, the people of this
State know that he is as morally guilty
of treason as JEFF DAVIS himself. They
know that his imprisonment was well de-
served, and that had he been hung
it would have been a righteous penalty
penalty as just AS that which oysrtakes
the rebel shot in his tracks with arms in
HlS hanuS. nat Is the verdict OF the
loyal people OF towa-that is the vercict
of the gallant soldiers Of the Sd Congress.
ional District of the State. 1t will take
more than the efforts Of Judge Wilson,
backed by such men as JONES, and Quo.
LEY and LEWIS, who have put arms in
The hands OF their sons and sent them
South TO fight against the government,
and of Ben SAMUELs and Judge Lowell,
who boast Of their loyalty to Virginia,
something more than the endorsement Of
these men, to reverse that verdict and
make DENNIS MAHoEY the martyr he
tondly hopes TO be considered