Smyrna times., 1862-05-08
Hung in ERgv.

Hung In Efigy.
On Sunday morning last the order.loVn
= citizens OF our town were shocked to find III
day desecrated by the exhibition of On obiec
: that would have been sufficiently disrracefl
o" any other day than the Lords Day, namely
the suspension of an efigy from the limbs of
Tree near The upper hotel intended to represen
our Represen' ative in Congress- Hon. Geo. P
, Fisher That this act was The work of SUNDAY
there is no doubt, as it is pretty evident tha
? IL was not up at midnight, thus showing the
moral character of those engaged in it. A thing
so unusual OF course attracted considerable al
tention.
The pretended cause ofthe Indignation lead.
ing to such an act was the speech of Mr. Fish
er IN Congress ou Friday, reported in Saturday :
papers, wherein he took occasion to severely
criticise the remarks of Senator SAu shury in
regard to the Loyalty of the parties arrested in
this State by Col. Wallace several weeks since.
This was shown in the placard suspended to
the etfigy, having on one side " Geo. p Fisher
Traitor" and on the other, "The depenef.
ate son OF plous mother, rho says that loyal
negro is better than white man in Delaware"
written in large, wellformed letters. This
inscription is a willful falsifcation of Mr.. Fish.
er'S words, and the men who wrote it must
have known so at the time, and whose only
object was to work on the ignorance and pre-
JudIce OF persons frightened by scarecrows.-
What Mr.. Fisher said, according to the Con.
gresslonal report, after quoting Senator SauIs.
bury's assertion, that arrests were made in
Delaware of men who were loyal citizens of
The United States, as loyal as were to be found
in America" was
"|hat Charles II. McWhorter, to whom the
SenatOr referred as being loyal, was quite the
reverse, and was not worthy of as much con-
sld6ratlon, though white, as a loyal npgro.-I
Laughter He stated III s on his own respoD. |
sibillty, for which he woul assume here or
elsewhere. This man had exposed fast horse |
which he called JEFF. Dayis. Mr. Fisher took
10 IN order number of the membe g of the
Hazeu Guards, whose secessionlsn he ex-
posed"
Mr.. Fisher may have been wrong and impo- |
Itlc IN making the remarks, though it is natural
in the excitement and heat of debate, when
hstrasscd by several others, as was the case in .
this instance, 10 make unguardcd remarks, but
there Is nothing in the language conveying the /
meaning his enemies wish to represent. No, /
the whole head and front of Mr.. Fishers Offend
ing is that he has dared to stand up for the
Union, and they only wanted an excuse to vent
their spleen! 1t not. why did they not hang
the men in etgy from the South who said in
Congress, without qualification in regard to
loyalty, that their negroes were better than
the mud-sls" of the North-meaning white
laborers.
In thus speaking of this deed we do not do
II Tor the purpose of entering into a defence of
VIZ. Flsher,-he has the ability and has an.
nou"ced h.s intention Of doing that himself-r
Dat only to eXhonerate the town, and saddle
1t where 1t belongs, and should not have recur-
red 10 u. perhaps, if occurring anywhere else.
This is the first time such disgracefuI scene
has occurred in our town in cur recollection,
and though, as a community, we stand convict
ed, from home, of disoyalty, we arc unwilling
that the whole town, or the larger part of it
should be charged with taking advantage ofthe
luIet, dark hours of Sunday to malciously
noid man up to contempt for words of public
debate. OF course il is not known who did il.
Tor like many other bad acts It was done in the
night, "beceuse the deed was evil" But one
ihlhg is certain, 1t was done here and as town
we shall have to suffer the reproach.