He was taken from there to a trading ship, the Elizabeth Thompson. He sailed to Hawaii and then to San Francisco, arriving on June 5, 1851. In the gold rush boomtown, chock-full of Irish miners, MacManus was greeted like a hero. At a reception that included judges, a senator, and members of Congress, San Francisco Mayor Charles Brenham offered this toast to the fugitive: “Ireland gave him birth, England a dungeon; America a home, with a thousand welcomes.”
