Year: 1867




To the Democracy of the city Of NeD York:-By
your appointment we have demanded of the
Democratic State Convention at Albany, in your
name, that you be allowed representation in
that body Without any hearing of your case
by the arbitrary power of the previous question,
the subordinates of the Tammany ring were
tion from the city of New York. 10 add
to the wrong thereby done your magnani-
nous support of Mayor Hoffman for Gov
ernor at the last State Convention, in spite
of his alleged subserviency to the corrupt ring
by which our city is at once plundered and dis
graced and in spite of the wrong done TO you
by your exclusion from the convention which
nominated him. was made the chief argument
for your continued prescription. 1t was thus
authoritatively proclaimed that so long as you
will submit to be robbed of the right of repre-.
sentation, so long you shall be denied any voice
in the selection OF the candidates you are asked
TO support at the polls, and that If you really
desire to possess the inalienable right of free
men and the especial heritage of Democrats,
you must strike down at the polls any candi-
date whom a State Convention shall force upon
our great city without allowing the people to
participate in his selection.


There was no member of the State Conven-
tionsW did not know, as every intelligent
politician in the State knows, that the men ad-
mitted into that Convention from our city were
appointed by the pretended General Conven.
ton at Tammany Hall, and that that body was
appointed by the preceding Committed. Even
more notorious than the fact that the unfortu-
nate rule of radicalism in our state has been
maintained chiefly by the lmoeciIlty and ineh-
the fact that the so-called organization at Tam
many Hall is merely close corporation per-
petuating itself from year TO year, in which the
Democrats OF New York have no more voice or
control than they have In the doings of the radI-
cal cabal at Washington. But IL is not so well
known that, close as is the rule at Tammany
Hall, the General Committeetor this year which
appointed the delegates who were admitted as
your pretended representatives has not yet
been formed. The men who hold the power at
Tammany Hall are so obnoxious that they dare
not trust themselves for a whole year even to
a committee OF their own selection. They
therefore, so arrange the matter that each
January more or less of the seats from the
several wards are left untitled until September
in order that, at the time for making nomina-
tions they may NIL up the places with men
who are then found to be most subVervient
Such skeleton of a committee selected the
represe natives sent by the Tammany ring 10
the State Convention. How well they did their
work is shown In the tact that OF those forty
holders; and that by sueh a machinery the
whole power of the mighty Democracy Of the
city of New York in nominating the delegates
at large to the Constitutional Convention was
exercised by William M. Tweed, Charles c.
Cornell, and Mr.. A, Oakley Hall


BY such mere sham, fellow-Democrats. you
are ruled and your sutferance of 1t creates the
delusion by which II is perpetuated You are
now told SO in the most emphatic manner by
this State Convention. Keep the fact constantly
in your mind: let itstIlKe deep into your hearts.
your country, 10 act henceforth as becomes men


who "know their rights, and knowing, dare


maintain them." The plan oy which the dele


are chosen transfers the power to elect from the


people to packed convention; and as the time


previous to the election is TOO short for new


convention you have, in respect to the election
of those delegates no alternative but submis-
sion Other elections, however, are to be held
in the future and III you have the heart TO dare


you viii then have Inc spT Power th 10 DO A nFm
| Democratic state Convention from which you
J are excluded VIII not only soon restore 10 YOU