The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-01-05

The PaIisinns regret the shows OF the
Empire, and New Workers may yet regret
the magnihcence OF Tammany There was
never anything mean about Tammany. 1t
had grand sachems and grand doings.
TWEED stole for It; CARNEY upholstered
for II, our friend OAKEY HALL spoke for
IL, aud the World furnished odes for it.
everything in style and nothing 10y halves.
We are moved 10 these reflections by the
sight Of a stained and dusty relic of the
past, which turns up in pile of literary
rubbish, whore IL has lain In ignominious
oblivion since 1867. II is Tammany's ac-
count of the laying of the corner stone of
lis new hall in that blessed year of grace
and OF TWEED 1t was once a beautiful
pamphlet, printed on heavy, rich paper
and rejecting all the splendor OF Tam
many; but pamphlets, like politicians
sometimes waste, and fade, and grow OBJ
scure in the process of very few years
This one looks out of keeping with the
strong light OF to-day; the white, creamy
paper is yellowsh and stained and the
names of sachems, and marshals, and
orators are not so bold and clear as when
thy we've first printed. Time, which
scattered all that brave company OF states
men and patriots to the four quarters OF
the earth, has also kindly dimmed .nIs
partial record of their mutual affection
and fratornal works; and az we turn over
the musty leaves, heavy and stiff with the
dust and mildcw of intervening years, we
cannot resist the melancholy mood which
crecps over the soul when contemplating
the remains OF former grandeur. How
fragile thesupports of power How slender
the ties of human friendships! How few
OF that ancient and honorable brother
hood regard elch other with the gushing
sentiments Of 1861! They have separated
most probably forever. Some have de
parted this If, while some have merely
departed this country After some Of the
brethren, Brother TILDES, lost 10 all the
6ner feelings which found expression on
that memorable Fourth of July, has set the
catchpoles Of the STATE. Some OF them
Brother PIERREPoST coldly yanks from
their cosey places on the national pay roll,
under surmise that they are not exactly
orthodox in their religious views or sound
on the third term. Some, alas languish
In prison, and some wander In foreign
lands, where the terrupin and the oys-
ter are practically unknown. Even the
nlustrious TWEED with that mountain of
encumbering flesh, flies or in more proper
phrase, sails, before the law; while his
honest sympathizers wiring their innocent
hands and cry, Undonei undonel"
On the Fourth ofJuly, 1867, rammany was
In high feather, and threw its steamers to
the wind, inscribed, "Clvil liberty the
glory Of man. with the complacent pride
OF II harmonious and thriving Ring. 1t
was Lot known at the time that the kind
OF civil liberties referred to were exclu-
nvely those which the Ring had taken with
the city treasury; and so the whole popu-
lation swellcd with Fourth OF July glory
In the wake of TWEED, SwEENY and Con-
MOLLY. II was a great day. We shall
never more look upon Its like. JOHN T.
HOFFMAN was the Grand Sachem; and
among the Sachems We find the renowned
names OF WILLIAM VI. TWEED, RICHARD B.
CONNOLLY, EDWARDS PIERREPoNr PETER
b. SwErNY, and JOHN KELLY. On the
Committee were SAMUEL J. TILpEN, MAN
TON MARBLE, JAMES NJ. SwEENY, RICHARD
o'GoRMAN, AuGusr BELMONT, OAKEY
HALL, CARNEY, GENET CREAMER, FARLEY,
and others OF much wit and honor.
The great procession formed m front o (
the temporary wigwam in Thirteenth
TiIeet, and preceded by the dgnitares OF
he order with bands of music and ban
ners exhibiting the motto and emblens Of
the brotherhood, it marched TO the site of
the new temple. All this, according to the
happy chronicle before US, took place " In
Joyous acclaim beneath welcoming glory
of sunshine" And in front OF the new
ground. which adjoins the Academy OF