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The Story - 2005-03-01 23:38:35
PUBLIC EXCITEMENT.---As might have been foreseen, the indignation felt at the death, and its accompanying circumstances, of Miss. Bagley, mentioned in our last, has been manifested in the manner so common in this country:---by inflicting on an effigy the punishment which the public seem to think due the person.---On Saturday morning, accordingly, an effigy was found suspended at a height almost as great as Haman's gallows, from the hickory pole, at the corner of Congress [Michigan Ave] and Washington streets [present-day site of the Elbow Room]. Upon the pole was posted an inscription bearing the name of the accused, and the accusation. There it remained until nearly noon when the pole was cut down in disapprobation of the act: the effigy was however secured & burned in the street. But little interest was manifested in this particular expression of feeling, though the demerits of the case were discussed through the day with considerable heat.
We supposed that nothing more of this kind would be done, but were surprised to find, on Sabbath morning, a similar effigy suspended from the window of an un-occupied room on Congress street, in full view of all persons passing to and from Church.
We need not say we are not of those who approve of such measures at any time, and much less of obtruding such exhibitions upon the sacred rest of the sabbath.
The steady and unrelenting frown of the law-abiding community, is far more effectual than fitful impulses of passion.
--Ypsilanti Sentinel, February 3, 1847.* * * * * * * * * * * *
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