CONCORD, June 5.—This morning effigies of President Pierce and Preston S. Brooks were found hanging in front of the State House, eighty feet from the ground at the top of the Pierce and King liberty pole of 1852. An effigy of Col. George was also found in another part of the city bearing the words, “The Glorious and Godlike administration of Pierce.[”]
SOURCE: Richmond Daily Whig, Richmond Virginia, Saturday Morning, June 7, 1856, p. 4
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