Washington sentinel., 1854-01-12
TAaIMANY SOCIETY.
"Will you walk into my parlor--
Said the spider to the fIy.r

To shake hands and make friends, when men
have been enemies, is a most beautiful and
commendable thing. But there must be sin
cerity, or the act is heartless and destitute OF
merit When selfshness, affecting the sem
blance of generosity, prompts to the overture,
then the party to whom the overture is made,
would simply be fool to accept it. Some in
vitations ought to be accepted, others ought
not
The accidental occupants of Tammany Hall
the Van Burens, the Cochranes, the Fowlers,
ct i'd omne genus, had grand gathering in
that once honored building, to celebrate the
anniversary of the battle Of New Orleans
They scattered their cards Of invitation all
over the country. They seem to have sent
them to men of every hue and stripe. They
seized upon that occasion to tender their hos
pitalities to, and invite the cooperation Of the
New York national democrats, who were but
recently SO violently outraged by them. These
invitations were accompanied with long
printed letter from the Sacbqms and from the
Grand Sachem.
To the tone and sentiments of This letter the
most censorious cannot object. But men who
profess the best sentiments are frequently the
the worst men, and letters replete with beaut-
ful sentences and admirable sentiments are
often the last to be relied on. One sentence
IRON that letter is as follows "Two demo,
cratic organizations distract the counsels, di.
vide the energies, and destroy the hopes of the
New York democracy. The Tammany Society
appeals to them both, appeals to their respec.
tive friends, with equal cordiality and on equal
terms of friendship and confidence, to forget
all that is past and to come together, on the
present eighth Of January, as on many for
ner good old jackson day."
Again, it asks" Why this division, why any
division?'
We would be the last to stir up strifes and
feuds-we would be the last to aggravate and
perpetuate them. Bat we feel it our duty to
submit few remarks on this letter and the
source from which it emanates. 1t comes in
part, from the men of Buffalo platform mem
DRY. 1t comes, too, from the organization
known as the "Softshell organization = Of New
York This letter comes from faction twice
routed. Is it, as would naturally be expected,
asupphcation for peace? No. These men as.
sumo TO be the head of the democratic organi
zation. With this assumption they offer terms
they prescribe, they dictate, basis of ac
commodation aud alnicabe settlement
But isnpcftinence could be pardoned if sin.
cerity lay at the bottom Of it. Is the offer sin.
cere? The surest guide 10 the future is the
past. We viii not go into tedious details
We will only say that these very men who so
hypocritically profess 10 be soIicitous for re.
union, only a few weeks ago-having control Of
the canal board-turned out every man who
dissented from their views and refused to vote
their ticket. Their prescription was sweeping
and unsparing. This is but one of the Incl
dents Of the past; with the others our reader.
are already familiar; and the proceedings al
Tammany Hall--as well as the letters sent
with the invitations to attend the celebration
at Tammany Hall-show that the whole affair
was ruled, regulated, and managed by the free
soilers.
We infer from the proceedings of the meet
ing, as given in the New York Herald, and
from the names mentioned, that none Of the
national democrats we're deceived and tricked
into attending il. To have attended, would
have been a clear surrender Of the majority, TO
the minority--a confession of erros, and a
giving up Of honest convictions
Our object in commenting CT this remarkable