The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-09-23

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To have that, if agreeable, settled in kind.
Provided true title, by proof, can be shown
To heart unencumbered and free as his
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Here's an excellent bachelors habitation
to let.
Correspondence of the Phila Inquirer.
NEW YORK.
The talk about Iamnsany- What IS Tam
msany ?-SketcAss Of tile Society and the
Rings uithin it.
AS the truth of things is the best argu-
ment, let me give The Inquirer dispas-
sionate account of Tammany Hall and the
noise it is just now occasioning.
WHAT IS TAMMANY?
The name of an old Delaware Indian
chief, who figured as friend of the whites
and was yet a patriotic red man, fond of
| fire water. The name was also given,
many years after the Revolutionary war to
Jeffersonian club in New York city.
This "Tammany Club took such prom
inence in the local politics of our growing
city, and enrolled the names of so many
popular leaders of wards and precincts,
that it was at least considered to be the
central authority of the city Democracy,
and up to twenty-five years ago it behaved
itself with fair political decency and was
entitled to respect. 1t obtained surveil-
lance over nominations and platforms, and
its hall NOW the New York Sun building,
opposite the City HalD was the reading
room, caucus house and drinking place of
the better and stronger Democrats here.
In jackson and Van Buren, times, when
New York city, by the influence of its
newspapers and the number of its official
employees took precedents in national poll
ticss Tammany Hall was the great wig
wan of that party, the Faneuil Hall, we
might say, of the Democracy. 1t was in
general subordination or inferior to the
great State politicians who constituted the
"Regency," so nicknamed, at Albany, but
to break down the State influence in it.
FALL OF THE REGENCY.
First, there were the jealousies between
the coarse politicians of mighty city and
what they grew to term the aristocracy of
the Democratic party in New York. Next,
the decline of the State patronage, canal
system, &C., by the rise of railways built
with city money, whereby the municipal
plumber Appropriated in quantity that of
the State, New York got the start of the
State, and there was general emigration
of interior politicians and contractors to
the metropolis. Then came the discovery
of gold in California, which furnished bank
ing capital for New York, and gave it that
commercial impulse which has carried it
nearly to the level of the second city in the
world, and which also stimulated a power
full Celtic and foreign importation. New
York politics took Dublin turn and
resembled the pictures of political society
in the books of Charles Lever. Corrup-
ton and force were substituted for elo-
quence and activity, and the old Knicker-
booker names began to disappear from the
bead-roll of Tammany.
1t was no longer Van Buren,, Nye,
Depew and Dewike who indicted the tex
ture of Tammany, but names of the accent
of Sweeny, Connolly, Brennan and Brad
ley. At this period, also, David Broder-
ick went to California, established wing
of Tammany on the Pacific coast, and gave
the last lustre to the name of this famous
but debauched club by dying in conflict
with the leader of the chivalry wing there.
THE CELTIC CONQUEST.
Tammany Hall, of New York, kept
fair record SO far as the war was concerned,
and turned the City Park into recruiting
station. It's leaders, however, were max
ing enormous sums of money by providing
troops through the influence of the City
and County Charities, Jails and Correction.
Emigration at this port was made vehi-
Gle for selling recruits and levying tolls
upon strangers. The rise of New York
real estate, unparalleled in modern times,
gave Tammany opportunity to apply taxes
and extort fees, while the march of civic
improvements was made the pretext of
monstrous expenditures upon interminable
public works like the Harlem bridge and
the court houses, which have consumed
about nine millions-Hon. Robert Roose-
welt says fourteen millions-of dollars,
although one million and a half should have
erected both.
AS long as the war patriotism of New
York State continued Tammany was rout-
ed at Albany and much of the collection
and expenditure of city taxes was perform
ed by the legislative commissions. The
resources, the energy, and, above all, the
ballot-box frauds of Tammany, however,
finally closed the contest with the downfall
of both the Republican party and the
country Democracy at Albany. Both had
already been utterly corrupted, and dimin-
ished merely to a Ring"
THE EXTENT OF THE PIRACY.
The election of John T. Hoffman " closed
the draws with the day." and the easy
purchase of Republican members of the
Legislature gave the Ring the State and
the city. A new city charter was decreed
The Erie railroad was seized by defeating
the Judges and overawing Hoffman. The
Republican residue was split in twain and
made impotent to reunite. The subsequent
history of Tammany is merely the blind,
indiscriminate and brutal sack and robbery
of the chief commercial city of the west
ern world. Morgan did not more utterly
sack Panama than Tweed New York. The
Ring acknowledge debt of 1926, 900, 900
of which more than half has been rolled up
since Oakley Halls inauguration-the stu
pendous stealings of three years.
The sum is equal to the interest on the
national debt, and it is nearly double the
legitimate banking capital of New York;
it is also about thirty dollars head for
every soul in New York State and city
together, or nearly four dollars for every
soul in the United States. 1t is one eighth
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