Judge Birch has been arrested for preaching treason on the
stump in Missouri. He is a candidate for
Governor. – Geo. W. Jones, Dennis Mahony and their co-laborers in this State
are allowed to utter and print disloyal sentiments with impunity so they do not
commit the overt act. The reason why Jones and Mahony are not, like
Birch, arrested and dealt with, is not because they are less guilty, but
because they are less liable to do harm.
The people of Iowa are too patriotic – have furnished too many brave
troops and made too many sacrifices for the preservation of the life of the
nation to be seduced from their allegiance by any act of politicians however
crafty, much less by the Jones faction.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 2
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