New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-07-06
Under the cornerstone was placed casket containing

Under the cornerstone placed casket containing
God aud sys cons Of the United States Ofls bill showing their
value eurreDy history d Tahmsny Society by O. Horton pro
Sa.on Photograph; the Grand Ssshsas sashn and
Msno Toe Nay 20 5 I sp ~ Pn l var @ olpsI PSs as
SS S pc t Iss Morris Co. Ssn q s p OF
gold and United states securities July 1901 coins Of 1890 and SO5
In the japanese language portrait Of Washington
United States Declaration Of Independence with biography Of the
The ceremony concluded the members Of the Society
Irving Hall Arrived there the officers Of the Society took
seats upon the stage The hail nearly filed and
Washington, Jefferson Jackson Clay and Webster After
the band had played the national airs, the Hon John
f. Burr read the Declaration Of Independence, and
followed by Mayor Hoffman, with brief Introductory
sple5on' IN rat ne III n,oy % The
In which Mr.. Verplanck INDUCED was the following:
+ am old enough to remember the original
Tammany Wlgwam, the Pigpen, as it was contempt
uOusly called by its political adyersaries. IL was
humble wooden building, attached to worthy Brother
MARKINGS tavern adjoining the tavern upon the site
Of the ha you have Just left, and the Wigwan adorned
it on Nassanst IL was as said, very humble wooden
One-stOry building, hardly large many saloon at
present in private residences STILL humble the hall
was, IL corresponded with the little city on which it
founded just above an open country the fields begin
only along the East River and the banks OF the Hudson
above COlegepace occupied only by farms country
growing into villages. single building OF the present
Hospital stood alone ont Of the city, with little but salt
teebie far Behind virginia PenSsyVans or Massacha
sets In wealth and population. In that small wooden
hall, just on the outward verge OF our little city, the
Tamnany Society held its meetings its festive anniver
gathering of citizens who felt and thought with them
Yet, small city feeble comparatively
our State, the men Of Tammany assembled in that
low, wooden, Darnhke, pg-pen, effected great Political
results producing an effect the public mind which
changed the Of the City, which turned the electoral
vote of the State This vote by placing the authority OF
the Federal Government in other hands established the
foundation of that political faith which st. Tammany has
never forgotten nor abandoned"
After Mr. DE Witt Van Buren, had read original ode
IN gorihcation Of TanmaDy Sunset Cox introduced
Mr. Cox after bowling In acknowledgment OF the hearty
reception which his sympathZers gave him, remarked
that the Tammany e0ciety, with its Indian name
but the outward symbol OF an inward thought That
thought was Democracy, unappaled and defiant Here
Grand Sachem Hoffman and MI Oakley Hall lifted their
hands and made peculiar mOtons 10 the rank and ble
unterffed burst forth in what they style "storm Of
applause.J Mr. Cox continued; Tanmany's traditions,
wrapped I'm aboriginal metaphor hed more meaning than
meets the Lord Bacon found more wisdom In the
ancient mythology than the aDcients ever intended
beneath their myths, there was magic wisdom that
made them political power. 10 was the rng--nOre p0-
tent than that upon which the Gen waited or than the
faery ring OF Spencer which yaDehed oil wounds or than
any other ring" known 70 poitics-whch opened the
enchanted chambers OF patronage and power lThe
words patronage and power seemed 70 be perfectly
comprehended by the warriors Ia the body Of the hail.
for they appauded without signal fronMayor Hoffman
and the rictAttOrney Mr. Cox thanked the Grand
6achem q bound volume containing the history OF
Tamlnend and remarked that he bad read Ia thatbstoty
that the great ehieain. after returning from his inter
view with the LDeas of Peru and after he had subdued
tho diseases and trOubes-allegOrlcal OF civil
which had grown In bis absence died amid the lamenta