New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-07-05
lie good. Gaining them, he can afford to lose
all other support.
THE TdMNANY WAIk

THE TAnMANY VAIL
The octoeenarlan whose habit it was to get
gloriously mellow very early in the morning
on the Fourth of July, and spend the remain
der of the day weeping copiously because he
was poor orphan, is no longer unique. Here
is an organization, q great and powerful or
ganization, with a charter and Wisklnkles ana
Sagamores and Sachems and everything calcu-
| lated to make an organization happy, devotihg
| whole Fourth of July, with, so lar as
we can learn, no preparatory mellowing to
prolonged-well to call it "wail seems mad
eouate. and as for howl "" the VOLTS long
"howl from Oonaaska's shore" is the
merest bark of a whifiet compared with 1t,
Tammany Hall set out yesterday for whole
days waiting. How well it succeeded, our re-
port, which is but moist eyelash from his
that let loose rains, partly shows. The meet
ing was called for the purpose OF celebrating
in proper manner the melancholy
condition and still more melancholy prospects
of the country, and to give expression TO
the feeling of Indignation which pervades the en-
tire organization at what Mr.. Frank Spinoa
calls the Colossal fraud OF the age. And as
wall, continuous, long-drawn and soul-stlIrlng
wall, it was an unquestiOned success. 1here
have been no such dcnunciations of fraud; no
such achrvmcse lamentations since the veteran
gambler sat down on the deck of n Mississippi
steamer and wept as if without hope because
after he had bet his whole pile against pous-
looking person whom he had persuaded into a
little game of draw poker" the pious person
said Il don't know much about this game, but
:" I've got four aces"
4 .lN.n
Tilden had been there himself Not, in fact
if Mr.. Charles Francis Adams had been there
in person, instead Of sending, as he did, an IN
spring letter stating that the cornerstone OF
the arch had settled in the mud, and must be
dragged out and placed on an immoYabe
rock Can uncommonly fine figure of speech,
by the way.) Mr.. Augustus Schell, who
had previously emitted the preliminary
wall which called the mourners together,
opened the exercises with a graceful aluslon to
circumstances under which "we see the sun
"rise on this Fourth of July, 1877" From this
he passed to the spectacle of fraud force,
land corruption" which it was the mission
of the meeting to contemplate, and just fairly
reused the enthusiasm of the audience as he
dwet upon the theme. Mr.. Schell, as Is well
known, is one of those imprisoned orators
who can carry an audience away when he
undertakes it. In his way he is an enthusiast.
He has so many times cheered the crown com
pletely out of new seven-dolar hat over an
ordinary Democratic victory, that by the advice
of his physician he now wears habltualy upon
occasions of public interest a last years hat. To
Mr. Sche succeeded Mr.. Samuel ). Cox, who
is extremely liable to be candidate Tor
Sneaker of the next House of Representatives.
Mr. Cox had sent out a pamphlet OF fifty
four pages, purporting to contain his speech, and
convey sdto the press the idea that he intend
ed to avenge upon the Tammany Society the
wrongs which that Association had mtllctedupon
the community, and Cypress the meeting with
the entire production. He talked barely an
hour, and as one might say who hadn't seen
the pamphlet, without preparation; skipping
page after page of printed matter that
would have greatly promoted the gen
cral righteousness. He began i'll the most
encouraging manner by saying that men would
regard this year as "grimed with the blacklist
fact and greatest wrong" and that they would
"never cease to wonder at the forbearance
"of the people and the goodness of
"Godn And then to think that he
by locking the doors and "grimng" the
Society with the whole ffty-four pages, thus
furnishing men cause for wonder at the " for
clearance of the people" inside, and " the
" goodness of God = to all the rest-and he
did not do it, Mr.. Cox might have done bet
ter He might have made the mOurners feel
worse
And then they had "short talks" from va
rious earnest orators. There was Gen. Frank
Spinola, who leaned over the edge of his col
lar like one of Raphael's cherubs, and talked
"real good" about political morality and similar
high themes; and Assemblyman Ecclesine who
said the Democratic candidate would be inau-
guraed in $50 "at the drIm-tap:" and Mr.. Boyd
who urged the necessity Of circulating sound
Democratic newspapers, and several others.
And they had letters and letters. Mr. Ti,dcn
sent one-wllich reused no enthusiasts; Senator
Eaton, of Connecticut, sent one that glowed
with the eloQuence of italics and SMALL CAPS,
and said, "NEvER, NEVER" III that statesman's
most impressive manner; and Mr.. Charles
Francis Adams sent one over, already referred
to, SAYING. "the cornerstone is III the
mud. Eheu! Eheu l." And so they walled.
Tammany Hall is in a state of mind.
Everything was in perfect keeping. They set
the fountain going in the City Hall Park and
had water works instead of fireworks, and
they wept in Fourteenth street.
WAI7ING FOR THE WIND.
1t is now plain that the war in the East will
drag on for months, unless it is cut short by