The Dubuque Times thus speaks in the scenes that followed the triumph of the Mahony ticket for municipal officers of that city:
“The only cause for serious mortification in this defeat is the class of men by whom we have been beaten. As an example of their treasonable inclination it is a notorious fact that during the afternoon and evening of election day scores and hundreds of men were swarming the streets cheering for Jeff Davis, the Southern Confederacy, D. A. Mahony, the Merrimac, etc., etc. In the evening one of the Herald proprietors, decorated with secesh colors, entertained a large crowd in the Nebraska saloon with the classic air of “Dixie,” executed upon the fiddle. An [employee] of the same office, wearing a cap conspicuously ornamented with the letters C. S. A., accompanied the violin with the “bones.” Dancing, brawling, fighting middling, drunken speechifying, groans for “Old Abe,” and shouts of “Down with the Administration,” were heard there till nearly morning.”
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 14, 1862, p. 2
“The only cause for serious mortification in this defeat is the class of men by whom we have been beaten. As an example of their treasonable inclination it is a notorious fact that during the afternoon and evening of election day scores and hundreds of men were swarming the streets cheering for Jeff Davis, the Southern Confederacy, D. A. Mahony, the Merrimac, etc., etc. In the evening one of the Herald proprietors, decorated with secesh colors, entertained a large crowd in the Nebraska saloon with the classic air of “Dixie,” executed upon the fiddle. An [employee] of the same office, wearing a cap conspicuously ornamented with the letters C. S. A., accompanied the violin with the “bones.” Dancing, brawling, fighting middling, drunken speechifying, groans for “Old Abe,” and shouts of “Down with the Administration,” were heard there till nearly morning.”
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 14, 1862, p. 2
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