Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-10-11
THE SILVER CITY EFF1GY.

In the News, one day last week, ap-
peared an item descriptive of an efRgy
which was found hanging up in Silver
City. We heard the name of the indi-
vidual whom it was intended to represent
but having no personal feeling in the
matter, we were not cruel enough to pub
Gsh his name. In this we were at fault, it
seems. There was certain notoriety con-
nected with the hanging which it seems
the disgraced individual wants the world
to know, and he will certainly have it, be-
cause he wants it. But there is no ac-
counting for taSte-and the many styles Of
letting the world know what mans taste
is. It now turns out that John +. ARgeH
was the man who was hung in efhgy in
Silver City, because of his repeated utter
ances in public of reasonable sentiments
and avowed sympathy with Secession, as
can be testified to by many of the citizens
of Silver City. Mr.. Angel wants the
world to know it. He got his boy to
write the following communication, and
he (Angell himself) sent it to us for pub
LEGATION. But Angel, no doubt, considers
himself martyr, and the Copperhead
party seem to think him martyr also,
as they last week nominated him
as one of their Presidential electors.
His name can be seen on their ticket.
He is good enough sympathizer with
the traitors of the South to run on the
same ticket with Tod Robinson-who
makes no bones to tell loyal people that
his sympathies are with the traitors of the
South. Vallandigham is also "martyr,"
in the estimation of jeff. Davis Northern
friends. The devil considered himself a !
martyr" too, when he was cast out of
Gods dominions. The last martyr We
now have is John +. -4ngeN, of Silver city,
Lyon county, Nevada Territory-and /
whose martyrdom consists of being hung |
in efhgy because of his notorious secession |
prochvities. Now, if IS any credit to a |
family, or if it is any disqualification to |
the individual hung and disgraced. to let 1
the outside world know all about it, why, /
in that case, as it IS Mr.. Angels own
wish, we certainly have no compunctions .
of conscience which stand in the way
and if we have any regret to express, it's,
that as we hate traitor equal TO the hate
we bear to the devil himself, that we are
only sorry that the Silverites did not
stretch the right neck. But here is young
Angels lame explanation for his father. ,
We trust that he will cut out the foregoing
introductory and keep it safely among the |
family records" and when he becomes a |
" Union man" perhaps it will remind him
how his father looked on gallows:
SILVER CRY, October s. 1864.
EDITOR OF THE GOLD HILL NEws-S1r:
l read in the columns of your paper, an ac-
count of the hanging Of nv father in ethgy.
That communication commences thus:
Several nights ago, an efhgy was hung up
on the Main street Of Silver City. 1t hung
until about 10 o'clock the next day, and was
seen by great many persons. 1t caused
great deal Of jeering and sport from old and
young, and was quite card" So much of
the article is true, but the balance of it, SO
far as reflects on my father and myself, is
falsehood, from begInningto end. Ny father
is no sympathizer Of the 6re-eating traitors
Of the South, or the Abolition traitors Of the
North. He is lover of his whole country
and patriot, and from him received my
early impression to be Union boy, and an
American, with head large enough to love
my whole country, and not traitor from the
North or South, like those who hung him in
effgy. I would have cut it down, had not my
father told me not to do il. He said he had |
seen better men than himself hung in efigy, !
but had never seen any one who was low !,
enough to indulge in such amusement, ard
let il hang for their qualification. am boy
thirteen years Of age. l can recollect well of !
hearing my father talk politics with an Adolf !
ton uncle Of mine, five years ago, and think /.
! know as much about his politics as any of /
our neighbors. New Mr.. Editor, will you do /
me the justice to give this place in your /
paper. FENNER A. ANGEL.