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I would rather be confined to planting cabbages the remainder of my days......Make up your mind, if need be, to hear me denounced a traitor and perhaps hanged in effigy.†
Chpt 3.6

effigy = a model or other representation
Denounced, threatened and burned in effigy in Missouri, he did not even bother to seek re-election to the Senate.†
Chpt 3.6 *

burned in effigy = burned a crude straw man or dummy made to represent a person
Burned in effigy, accused in the press of "idiocy and impotency," and repudiated by his state and friends, Grimes never recovered—but before he died he declared to a friend: I shall ever thank God that in that troubled hour of trial, when many privately confessed that they had sacrificed their judgment and their conscience at the behests of party newspapers and party hate, I had the courage to be true to my oath and my conscience......Perhaps I did wrong not to commit perjury by order of a party;†
Chpt 3.6
Throughout Tennessee, Johnson was hissed, hooted, and hanged in effigy.†
Chpt 4.10

effigy = a model or other representation
For his action, the Governor was burned in effigy, excluded from customary ceremonies such as parades and commencements, and assaulted daily in the press with such epithets as "anarchist,"†
Chpt 4.10

burned in effigy = burned a crude straw man or dummy made to represent a person

Definitions:

(1) (effigy as in: burned in effigy)
a model or other representation -- typically of a person -- often of someone hated, so that it can be mocked and abused
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)