Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-08-17
<AmMANY AND THE PREsI-
DENCY.

= tIudI Va AZ OCDlODtoNy IA
city and State. The Sacbems of this
council nave ruled the wieldy masses with
the same unquestieaed and despotic au-
/ thority that the savage ~chieftains of the
forest exercise vertheir painted warriors.
Tammany has long been a conspiracy of
greedy and corrupt politicians, who, by the
a yote-buying potency of whisky and the
+. appliances Of stolen money, have success
fully carried on a long system of gigantic
plumber aud robbery. New York City
has bied to the tune of millions to feed
, their gluttoneus rspacity. Every COM
mcrcial interest and enterprise of the Me-
tropolis have suffered in their Tightening
grasp. The investigation of their mis-
management is now going on, and the
people of the city are amazed and applied
at the frightful disclosures of corruption
and rascality. An incubus of debt is
resting upon them that threatens financial
! prostration and bankruptcy. Never were
cunning fraud and villainy so triumphant
in plundering the public, and never so
brazenly impudent in gorgeous display of
ill-gotten gains. This conclaye of bloated
thieves aud robbers have been 80 success
full in shaping the politics and controlling
the fate of parties in the city and State of
New York, that they now propose to
/. widen the field of their roguish operations
and attack the Treasury at Washington.
The right is imperatively claimed todic-
tate the platform and candidates Of the
Democratic party for the next Presidential
canvass. The platform, Of course. WILDE
manufactured in the bra;n-shops of Sey-
smour and Hoffman, and the latter gentle
man, now Tammany's Governor of the
State, it is most probable. will be the
candidate. We do not presume upon a
bare and loose intimation. We act and
warn upon a positive, unequivocal declara-
ton. The unblushing rascalities and I'M
q~uities of the Democracy, in the chief
city of the country, are only a foretoken
of what would be its spoliations, if trusted
with the vast revenues ofthe Government.
The nimble ~manipulations of this light
fingered gentry would soon exhaust the
boosted fullness of our Treasury. Official
virtue and integrity would abdicate their
''bigh places" corruption en- robe its
a~leprous form in royal purple and fraud
and yillainy wear a golden crown and
sway an unchallenged sceptre. In the sa-
looms, revelry-halls and council-chambers
of the Capital, the gorged "Chiefs of Tam
many would display a bewildering maze
of bosom r%ufles, with snowy depths ablaze
with the diamond glitter of stolen wealth.
The men who were beggars and Migrants
before they sucked the udder of the New
York City Treasury, but now fill the
drives of Central Park with imperial
~equipages and live in brown stone fronts,
would disport themselves in the magnif-
cont luxury of sGuandering the public
money. The rule of plumber concluded,
and bequeathiny a disgraced government
and bankrupted treasury, they would re-
tire to their private places to play the
Nabob on their enormous feelings.
TO- This Infamous Ring" is the most seri-
Gus danger that threatens the nation. 1t
seeks its life blood with ferocious rapacity. |
With its Tweed, Connolly, Hall, Hoffman
snd Seymour, it lacks no elements of an
unscrupulous conspiracy, sagacious mean
ness and cunning villainy to concoct its
programme and execute its schemings. 1t
rests with the honest and patriotic people
of the country to stay its out-reaching in
fucnces and defeat its designs. 1t is for
them to guard this Pandora box of calam-
tiles. Slumber and apathy will bring the
destroying overflow of its frightful con-
tents. In this organization, all the dia-
bolical essentials of the Paris Commune
are combined. 1t did not surrender to
the New York mob of Irish Catholics. it
was virtually the rioting, maddened MUIR
9der;ng mob itself. Give it National su-
IN and the "White House" will be-
come the Vatican of the Pope, to all in
tents and purpose. II is high time that
> the country be awakened to the alarming
advance of this danger. Time is too pre-
cious to be sq~uandered in petty internal
strifes and frivolous discussions. The
, grim and hungry monster confronts US at
the very threshold Of our national exis-
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preach. The full and efficient organiza-
ton of the Republican party, its strong
and various divisions acting in harmoni-
: Gus cooperation and the exigency is not
too great and obstinate for its power and
craftsmanship. Republican success is the
] guaranty, and the only qua ranty. of con-
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