It is not much wonder that people elsewhere have a bad
opinion of this city when a newspaper, which is supported mainly by the business
patronage of Dubuque is the principal cause and means of giving people at a
distance the worst opinion possible of this city and its inhabitants. – Dubuque Herald.
Father Mahony has never uttered a truer expression and it is
astonishing to us that the people of Dubuque, interested in its prosperity,
will permit a vile secession sheet like the Herald
to exist among them. It is a remarkable
instance of forbearance that they have not long since risen up and pitched the
dirty concern into the river and sent its editor afloat down the
Mississippi. We venture the assertion
that had they been governed by the same treasonable sentiments that that paper
has sought to instill into their minds, the same disregard of law and order,
they would have done this thing months ago.
As it is their forbearance has brought a stain upon their city that will
prove a curse to it so long as treason has a name in our country.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, May 16, 1862, p. 2
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