New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-09-27

mummsr1es and Significant conspirscies y time 100
that and the Democrats Of this State should De IN
formed what il this Society Of Tammsny Columbian
Order which with it, Ssches seeks exercise despotc
sway through the alternate II blossom
foNers fruits. and shows Its ceremonies drawn from
the eusoms Of Indians, only effective in Indian
craft and cruelty. Ii created by statute in s05hat
good old time when the desiinies Of party were
controlled by elect ewthe precursors Of those mag
mates pethOric with Office and reward, who Afterwards
in small committee rooms, marked out the which
the people obedfnty to follow change ha. come
over the spirit Of that dream The rightfu authority
stolen from the returning to them and If the
people Of this city sparing ali artf1l deEagOgues re
eeiing all attempts leadership will bit attend TO their
own interest and exert the power they possess they viii no
longer b. cheated and enaved by the sancty Of mere
names the stra;sgems Of place hunters the schemes of
interruptions ambition the Vaccinations Of treason or
the violence Of swIes hrengs. What is the constitution
Of this Temmanv Society What rs by laws | do
not ask those who belong to the asOcaton-who joined
il at the time OF it honor and integrity when il con
tent be the and did not aspire be the master
Of the Democracy put the weston 10 those VINO, IKE
myself were admitted to its embrace, and never
sought TO bewhO never witnessed the impressive cere,
monies Of the Wigwam nor saw the blaze OF the COUNCIL
fires nor drank the waters OF the Great Spring.
What inquire again are the principles and provisions OF
It's constitution and by laws You might well q the
sphnIes Of the Egyptian desert to tell you the names Of
their sculptOrs Every member received into the dark
arena Of the imaginary Saint Iammsny il bou by
pledge not TO disclose What its constitution and bylaws
are secresy gloom, mystery. surround this Mo)rh to
which the right and power Of the people of New York
continually sacrificed. But some OF us sys
tens are revealed. Il has a Grand Council OF
II. n
may scalp the Democratic party at pleasure and, h0id
ing up the bloody trophy and the dripping tomAha"k
shout wild war song OF triumph over the victim seven
men, not "in buekrsm but with the insignia OF the anti
renters and perhaps with the amount OF integrity
may decide upon the regularity of the General Committee
chosen BY the Democracy of the City and County Of New
York And il is under this power that the Indians in
Council have presumptuOusly pronounced against the or
eanzaton Of which Thomas J. Barr is Chairman Will
not initiate the example Of our traitor foes by calling
names, but ask you il these anonted sachem. and thsr
followers meeting schemng stabbng and holding their
orgies in the dark not Indians IN feeling haot
ard action understand that gentleman named Denke
the Clerk Of Kings County, and resident Of Brooklyn,
who supported the mongrel Buffalo ticket in 1913 welded
the power of eiectiDg our Committee by ms omnpo'ent
vote The Tammany Socetyis Corporation Ia nm my
Hall its private property, which il leases 20 lndivdr ais
What becomes OF the moneys of the Corporation know
not But would like TO be informed when where, and
how that Corporation obtained the power to decide who
composed the Democratic party AMI az what times or
places the people Of New York should express their opin
ions or their power have examined the lease
under which the building is now held by my friend How
ard and others 1t is a porentous document-longer
that the Constitution of the United States 1t provides
let the hall or any part of it for any political
purpose TO any person whose general political principles
do not appear the lessees or the Society to be N
accordance with the general political principles Of the
democratic Republican General Committee, OF which,
(s-e is the language of the instrumenf) Eiyah r.
q" rdy is at present Chairman" The lease s dated eth
December ls42 At that date there faint of Abo
ltion Free Soil in the Democratic party aud s plain
enough that tested by the standard above gwen only
many Hall But the lease further declares that IN case OF
"a doubt arising in the mind of lessor or lessees' or in
the mind Of the Grand Sachem a to the political char
aoter of any persons wishing to meet in the Hail. steps
shall be taken by which the Father OF the Council shall
call that solemn cOnCave together that they may decide
whether the meeting shall be held or not and Their decis
ion shall be conclusive Such the stpulations between
the Tammany Corporation and its lessees and care not
TO interfere with them But when and how did the people
become a party 70 that contract When did you promise
that no Democratic meeting should be held be worthy
the confidence Of the people unless it convened IN
Tammany Hall A dolusion has existed on this SUBJECT
which should be dispeed And would ask the people 81
this County whether they admit that they the slaves OF
Corporation which absolutely control them in the
exercise of their highest rights OF freemen
Let the Fathers the Sachems and the Scribes fence
round their wigwam however strongly-let them issue
edicts with matter how much form and ceremony-sil
the people their masters will meet when and where they
please, and in such measure as they prefer from the mild
ct beahngs of gentle invitation TO the oudest thunder
tones Of saDipotent decree demand the Observance Of
their supreme Will There gathering in Idmnany
the other night by gracious permission OF the sovereign
Sachems pow held and certain great chiefs
were expected who did not come but there were some
who had the merit of Falstas soldiers They were NOR
tel and would till pit as well as better men Ihey imi-
taed DOgbey and bestowed all their tedousness ON the
impatient multitude In the absence OF orators they had
to literary entertainment but what they otted
better than what they read The audience would nave
been quite insped if the letters OF Messrs Bronson and
O ConOr had been exhibited but the secretary ike gen
tlenan of the same faction TO be particularly men
toned presently had time read them Thanks to the
Press which has leisure for such communcaons and even
eve The Collector strikes with pOnderous battle an hon
e and stunning blow at treachery bulym and mpotent
State policy the District Attorney puts in some terrific
blows in the fashion wonder how the Governor,
and what Mr. o COnOr happily calls the unimpres'lve
exception have felt since these onsaughts were made
Ii that hope fear pointing 10 the Executive
has extended beyond the Surveyor and Postmaer-Ar-
oades GmbO"
The enecedens a. well as the incidents of that meet
ing are most interesting and in considering them MI
Brady briefly called attention to little Of our State ho
~ since ls4 and proceeded 10 review and censure the
course of John Van Buren, az some length Inc fOstnes
ter has some qualities that make him favore with few
One feature in bic character II predominanthe love Oh
the ridiculous and | quite certain It was never
fully gratifed until he found himself installed as
Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society. | hope his
he alih has not suffered from that shock. IL must
be source of great amusement to HIM and
the Surveyor 10 talk these matters over II they
have not forgotten that they LEFT the democratic "enera
Committee IN 1919 express because they would noap
prove or sustain the Democratic ticket then presented to
The PEOPLE. These the men who call Us boilers
Their political career may be sketched in a narrow com
pass The whole OF our political difcues are traceaoie
70 a single cause.-the disappointment and vindicyeness
of an ob.oete the late Martin an Buren, The
politicians the Van Buren, school had been so long &C
cusomed to control political Affairs that they thought the
offices belonged TO them rather than 70 me people ana
when the people rebeed against the dictator, be did
not gracousv or dutifully submit but determined 10 I'M
fold at a suitable period the standard OF treason The
opportunity in ls47 Discovering that they did not
own the nation the Van Buren, dynasty insisted that they
vould claim nj least the fee Of the State They proposed
TO do this by demanding certain nominations in the syria
euse Convention the mastery of which body they valny
stroye 10 obtain When they defeated IN that Ell
fort and not till then they commissioned our portly
friend Preston King to reasonable part in the Con
yenton aud he performed Il in these words VIII throw
Into this Convention the hrebrand OF freedom lhe
brand fell exnguished and harmless Ii was the W imo
Provso Resolved defeat the ticket the conspicuous
nalcontus of the Convention entered on their mission 70
ruIe or ruin. Amongst them John Van Buren, Pres