Saturday, August 8, 2009

Secession in Dubuque

Some of the Mahony Democrats elected to office at the recent municipal election in Dubuque, were required to take the oath of allegiance before they were sworn in. A volume could not better express the character of the men elected by the Mahonyites of that city, than this single sentence. When at a time like this men vote for suspected traitors to fill offices, it is time the War Department were exercising more vigilance at the North.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, April 16, 1862, p. 2

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