The Vault at Pfaff's
English, Thomas Dunn. "The Gallows-Goers." New York Saturday Press, November 26, 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.