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The Gallows-Goers

English, Thomas Dunn. "The Gallows-Goers." New York Saturday Press. 26 Nov. 1859: 4.
Type: 
newspaper
Genre: 
poetry
Abstract: 

The speaker is one of the masses who enjoys the sport of public hangings. He speculates that if hanging were deemed wrong by God, then the clergy would be hanged, ironically, for their part in previous hangings.

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