The New York herald., 1870-03-29
Tho TAn1any Cssp d'Esas-Ths New
Charter.

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The Tammany General Committee, II ap-
pears, decided that no meeting should be
held in the Tammany building last night. 1t
will be seen by a document emanating from
this body, and published In another column.
that the gentlemen who are responsible for the
safe keeping Of the building and for the preser-
vation of peace within its walls, had reason to
suppose that some violence was intended on
the occasion Of q meeting, and therefore closed
the doors Of the building and took the precau-
tion to have . force Of police within
In case any forcible demonstration should
be made. The coup d'etat was as per-
feet in its result as in its conception, and
nobody was hurt. The young democracy
expended their force in wholesome purGative
of resolutions at Irving Hall in the afternoon
but fortunately for the peace Of the city they
made no demonstration at Tammany, and BY
this exemplary self-denial dumiounded the
oracles who proclaimed that riot and bl0odshed
would assuredly result from the anticipated
grand gathering Of the clans at the Wigwam.
The leaders OF tho new democracy are evil
IDENTIFY laboring under grievons mistake as to
the character Of the mother who nursed them,
who fed them In their tender infancy,
and In their half-hedged manhood ele-
vated them to places Of honor, trust
and fat perquisites. The OBrien and
Morrissey disorganization have been acting as
though the Tammany General Committee was
q mere ward machine, with which they are
accustomed to deal and beyond which their
political experience docs not extend, instead
of an ''anclent and honorable body" whose
red skins proclaim them the frontiersmen Of
tho city democracy, whose trophies Of victory
hang high upon the walls of the great Wigwam,
whose feathers 1utter defantly in the Novem-
ber sun about election day, and whose gor
geous blankets strike terror to the enemy.
The Morrisscy o Brien combination seem to be
ignorant Of the first principles Of the Tammany
organization They forget that the General
Committee, IL we understand it Alright, Is an
emanation Of the Tammany Society
that 1t holds its name and its
place of meeting ut the will Of
the society. Its rules may DO as primitive
and simple as those which hold together the
tribes who dwell In buffalo skin "lodges," and
hunt for white mems scalps; or they may be
as subtle as the rules Of the Jesuit orders, but
of this the recusant Talamanyites know better
than we do. They ought TO know, at least.
that the sachems, like the priesthood Of the
ancient oracles, are supreme in Tammany
Hall, and that if any one wants to differ with
them they must differ outside the sacred pre-
cincts of the Tammany temple. They may
form dissenting committees, like the Stuyvesant
Committee, or the Mozart Confederation, or
the Democratic Union Association, the Water
bury milk and water aryanization, or
the hshhook and baitSot Roosevelt
committees but they must understand
that within Tammany Hall the General Com
mittee are bound by their official pledges and
obligations to conform to the Interpretation of
the usages and democratic doctrine as enun-
ciated by the sachems.
Upon these points 1t appears the young
democracy have made mistake. They have
seen the power and the duties of the sachens
''through glass darkly," and hence arises
whatever disappointment or bad temper may
result from the coup d'6tat Of last night.
Meantime, there has been q new Charter
presented to the Legislature. Mr.. Frear
unfolded it's voluminous pages to the thin
benches of the Assembly yesterday evening,
and we give our readers the benefit of its long
drawn out wisdom in our columns to-day.
1t Is the former Sweeny Charter number oae
modified a little. 1t comes up, like a victorious
rooster, with feathers all smoothed and crest
erect, as though 1t had never been beaten in
the pit. The failure of the Tammany powwow
yesterday, so. adroitly managed by the
sachems, will necessarily transfer the Magma
Charta to another Runnymede, and that will
be on the floor Of the Capitol at Albany, where
we will watch the contest between the barons
and the king with unabated interest. We only
hope that whoever wins will win quickly and
settle the question Of our future city govern.
ment.
MADE AN EXAMPLE OF HIM.-In the Cour.
of General Sessions yesterday Patrick McDon-
aid, man well known in this city as a
notorious emigrant swinder, was sentenced to
the fullest extent of the law by Judge Bedford
for swndling. The number of impositions OF
nature similar to that practised by Mcdonald