Mahony, Dennis Aloysius

MAHONY

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 12/28/2007 at 07:28:48

Muscatine Journal, July 19, 1861, editorial on Dennis Aloysius Mahony, editor of the Dubuque Herald.

MAHONYISM

There will undoubtedly be a “high time” at the Mahony Convention, to be held at Des Moines on the 24th inst. Several of the delegates appointed by the Scott county Democratic Convention have declined the honor; and the feud between the two wings of the party throughout the State is daily increasing in bitterness. True, Mahony professes the utmost devotion to the Union, yet almost every article in his paper gives the lie to this assertion. He bewails dolefully the “unconstitutional acts” of the President, and fills his sheet daily with every sort of calumny against the administration. He is so odious in his own community that it was only by the extraordinary efforts of the friends of law and order that his office was saved from mob violence a few nights since. Yet this is the man who sets himself up as a leader of Iowa Democracy. If he does not discover his mistake before he is ten days older we shall lose our guess. It is openly asserted in Dubuque, as a reason for the treasonable course of the Herald, that it is in the hands and under the control of a knot of southerners, who take this method to deceive their friends in the South as to public sentiment in this region and thus stimulate and embolden them in their unpardonable rebellion. They will reap their reward.