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: A CREE OTT TROTTER ane ere t to membershi, 1th Ward—Jobn: & Wood, Andre | ‘hat name their successors shall have succes: ~ THE TROUBLES OF OLD TAMMANY. | S=zcrer. nae oammnT,etlon of | Netla ae weuture to go, in the way of authors, | emer Zomembet reve cen wt ony dabatra | rismentes en oar Ante ee ee, cepabe of tag ead | tative, but also for the reasons we | Rete pean 0 mediation, it would Di breach of faith, soleanty pledged. eure ven we ee Roceias B, Shepard, Thomas 8, Henry, iii med, peeing oe ee ee eae | to servre an arrangement acce; bath n z 4 More Statements from the wafe. ‘There semed to be no | Sides Bytit the cbjcetion en, the m0 dag aaied ia 6 enla ona hearty poche | Wood tan Merthy, Hermano Wood, Jobs | “efended im Sf coura and paves whatever, In Secti we the Grand Qoone.! of the | Gt tlie committee could neve be fully vindk th Ware—Wilis William MeCoukey manner of actions, suits, complaiats, matters, aud ee pa, st ied anions le q f the groand th a maura bei oe vera isle pets i ares, ie causes whatecever; and that they Ay hepato id —~_ “ 5 dull, | haxmlony; d to atthe rties, and ced Resolved, That the percous appearing to have been | mgy have a common seal, and change an THE ORIGINAL CHARTER. | gietd "tie dol Ppeveral wa | whieh ec then were tuted to ex: | Wore most Comme 0 the apperyal | shied a timahor the Leaver ep: Qicn Gime | ae wt heir pleated that they and thee on snane clected pursuant to the call of the Democratic Re | cert a the people. : od vr antag ort yp masta ag Fc lg eno pergola agree FACTS FOR THE PROPLE, } publican General Committee for 152, at the tues | | On the following evening the Comncilinet pursuant | In conclusion, brothers, we inte, this cocasion to Frilay evtoing. Sintary 21, as ba part seven c'elock, | SO 1aW to parchare, Ske receie. et sees Page ara and plaees stated in such call, avcordiny to the cox | 1° is 0UNNn tion Dibnsbers of thé General | uugmtulate upon our triumph at the resent | sor the pnrrore of orvuntzntion simple, or for term of life, or lives, or otherwise, any » 4 — — inspectors for the en Lat ape | Commitee from thirteen wards. A. resolution waa - popes ie bpd on new skies one blag thr g gece adad he cesaniend mater rous, chattels or persoual estate, for the purpose of” i x 8 " ity of , te cet at | at oN bs n Ins nee ¢ preciding resolutions, heceby, o ‘A ning’ Guiniatimenee. 2. te he a Se ae loreal 4, | therefore adopted declaring that such persons, hav- | standard; and upon the bright auspices under which | feelared to te the Temee-atie evabican Géveral Gom- | enabling thom the better to carry into eet the FO WL MEMBERS OF THis TAMMANY SOLISTY, OW) 1°59, at half post seven clock, for organizetion.? | 1 5 baer ” rity our party enters again into the responsibilities of | mittee for 1853, and as sveh entitled to the use of Tam- | e' purpor ording he Inspectors” duly appointed, were “entitled to seats | a e 7 uunitie {ul- | many Hall, o the exelusion of all other political bodies, | und distressed, provided the clear ly value of | in srecommitice ut itshould ray eg Nig gene peer ae Sea, ‘ wa rer os Sm setae: gece fone suly called by vis bio Coun g bi sich reat bits personal ate ce et ihe wed Ai jrand sil 0 society has been assailed, 7 ore elect” of jeneral C munities | Of these thirty-nine persons, thirty-two recog- | have the pleasure of greeting even the most distant | Twmany Society, or by or under the authority * | sun of five thousand dollars; and that they nace pei Troper tbat we ‘sboald” address you upon | Fe ibs oo ek ca the get Bash phices Tae | bired Mr. Delavan as chairman,and seven Me. Barr. | of you, within the walls of this edifice, which in sa- said Damocratic Kopublican General Comunitter, asorgay: | jicce orm shall Lavefull power and authorit subject. You are scattered through every State | concurrence, in this respect, was gratilying, aad | From the other wards, entitled to twenty-one mem- | eye in the affections, memories and confidence of | “Seroned. That « copy of these resclutiona, sertifea 1 #1"Nt, cell, lease, demise, and dispose of @ the confederacy, but our own hearts assure | the tine and place desiguated were acquiesced ig | PEP, NO paperswere presented. The peroas “ap- | every son of Tammany. by the Father and Scribe, ‘be delivered to the lessee of | POsonel estates, or any per eared their will wa of your deep jiterest in all that coucerns our | gy all nides. plac ig } pearing to have been elected as members” of Dated at the Council Charaber of the Great Wig- | Tammany Holl, as the decicion of the Grand Counel) ; aud pleasores and that they and their susecssors mehinored society. There is no distance which |" Some oljection has been made to the specification | Committe for 1653, were requested to meet at wam, at Manbatian, in the season of suows, second | uyon the subject embraced in his votice, aud published | shall have power, from time fo time, to make, oonsti- GOLUMBIAN OKORK. | the gentlemen who had been oficers of the General Brerorne—The manner in which the recent action | Committee for 1852 also volunteered a call, request: efface from } ~ ee certilieates of erection ag | Maby Hail on the following evening (Janvary 2!*t), | y5con, in the 6th year of the institution of the soci- | in the Hreab and the democratic papers of this city. tute, ordain, and establish by-laws, constitutions, See titi vee aN lien ce ths Creat | esate ack ria obiceiom, 1k will ha been, | fe the perpose of organization: andthe ort’ | ety. fd the ith of Independence-—Now York, | ,Telaewing isthe vvie on the above resolutions, im | cxcigiacesy ta they shall Judge Broper for the i . ‘ 7 1; ¢ ese ii 1 inar’ sting io be so organized was declared to “el led to 3. ie tive:— election oO! hi ers, or ee ae aren ena eas | me, emer colin» emaaes ene | ONES oP Semrmeny Wali dhe ro toe tee | PT” Sia» Dart, wits ncyestraes, eae ony Aster | Abutetn cen mative ot thew Smporatin ana ia which new inspimtion ia foaud for the hopes | Ouly. duly elected n.cmbers were to meet It | Terolutions, was ten fn the affirmative, ard one (Co Jacob M. Vreelind, Drown, Jcbn Dunham, Charles A. Denike, Thoma: Dua. | Md the terms and inanner of, sdmiasion, for the ar og by au und: faith im homen progress, | is ¢ In the first instance, especially aa | Delt) in the nepative. Andrew H. Mickle, lap, Samuel Allen,” ; hetter government 4 and the labors imposed by a patriotism broad as the | 1 He ccats were contested, thyse guly | _ During the pendency of this matter in the Oonne?, ‘Andre Froment, Segative—Joseph Cornell. | and members, for fz time and places of Unien. posed by | y act who had the certificates of a ma- | Sele 2 sete Ltr cnet Spe ped Hall. Jobn Dunham, Absent—Fachems Funipand a ee uli meeting Oe atin for " all the , on, though | fo inspectors appointer the General | Mr. Berr and his associates have not met there since. George 8. Mexserve, 'Racl HEORGE SERVE, Pather, | affhins an 8 of Bal 5 ed “y “ere ppg se wider Comfulttee for 1862. ees eanltecatiios aiaine 0 ‘The membere who formed the first committee, un:ier Samuel Allen, Lai Hee Taoe.! Rs amg, Bexlbe, Hey that ; sal not be fterest. “This city, by its size and politan | contested seats, and award them as might be right | the chairmanship of Mr. Delavan, met again on the | William J. Brown, “ p ae Tavanxy Hast, Jan, 27, 1858. | repugnant Senet a es Posed it the oharacter, exercises’ an important influence thro j undjut. Nor, ly considered as au arraage- | Lees, aah at py and reorgan'zed the eom- | Charles A. Denike, Fer tie MELD. Tacit. tanta thas the Quecuade | Coe oor ae sage of the said. out the eouutry; and it is essentie! to the bestin- | mext between contending factions, can objection be | Zittee by the election of the same temporary officers. | Isaac V. Fowler, ce the undersigned, hereby state that the use made | carrying on the business and affairs said of the Uemocratic party that it -hould be the | piace ty the fairness of a recognition of the rights of | The conmitice gave the minority six days additional | "Thomas Dunlap, Sestany of Onc one. \ce Coluanbinniteaes: hat a onesie corporation, there shell be such number of offi Reme, not only of a wound, but aleo of a vigorous and | the certiticnted members to orgauike teinporarily, | He to take theirseats, and then passed upon the | Stephen H. Fecks, held onthe 20th iust, was without our suthority; and | Cet of the said corporation, and of eueh denomi- Marmonious Gemocrucy. Impressed with this con- | and poes upon the coutested seule, as it subsequently | ¢#*€8 of contested election; and even unseated, as it GEORGE 8. MESSERVE, we further state that the usertion in the call, or order, of | Nation or denominations, to be ehosen in such wiction, we have not Lesitated to aet promptly and | appeared that the sympathies of thirty-two cof them | Ded full right todo, some of the persons named in Father of the Council. | the said Council, that ow credentials were thea and there | Dutnner and at such time and places, desidediy, within the sphere of our duty, secure | were ore way, and those of twenty-eight on the | OUrTesolut’ens as “appearing to be elected.” It is} Tnowas K. Downtxa, Sribe, produced is utterly fale. Our eredentiala were prodaced | or shall, from time to time, be directed bps ae | Other side A’ change of tlive votes would have | BOW permanently organized, Lorenzo B. Shepard | [The only other member of the Council is. Bee | before the Commitice of which Thomas J. Harris Chairman, | tution dnd by-laws of the said corporation, made o: That the subject may be better understood, we will | shifted the maj rity. And it would bea slander upon being chairman, Jacob P. Oakley, treasurer, and | ¢hem Cornell.) and of which we are meimbers, and iansied: 40 and now | to be made for that purpose; and that such number - thet advert to the character and position of ouraociety, | any General Conimitice which ever assembled at | Thtddecs B. Glover and Abraham B. Vosburgh, see- Sa rewain fu possession of ihe Eecretaries of the said Com- | and description of ineubers shall be sufficient t aud ite relation to Yammany Hail. Tne Tammany | Tatroany Hall, to say that it was so earried away by | Tetarics. What course will be taken by those who The Other Side—Mantfesto Vo, 3. mittee — NICHOLAS DIMOND, ) | constitute « legal meeting of the said corporation e+ Mociety or Columbian Order, now two-thirds of & | passion, or benigited by ignorance, or biluded by | Withdiew with MrBarr, we do not know. Itis to be TAMMANY HALL, January 28, 1853. + MICHAPLHALPIN, | st ward, | Pe HOW or may herenlier he directed by the suit enocary old, lias for a long period of time been 2 prejudice, that thiee men could not be found oa the | heyer that they will not set up an irregular organi- | | Brormmxs—Our Society was founded in 1739 by RICHAKL ? MULLIGAN, =f constitution and by-laws of the said corporation. watre of democracy, not only of this city, but to | side of the mujority, who would act with fuiruess and | 2#tion, but ever that matter we have no control. | William Mooney ond others, republicans, in favor of GEK“HON COHEN, otk wibk And be it farther enacted, That this aet be and seme extent of the whole country. The unanimity | movertion. bute our action has been assailed by | Outside of Tammany Hall every democrat is free to | the constitution of the United States, who ax deino- R.'T. COMPTON, } ward. herehy is declured to be a public act, and that the required in the choice of new members has been wenty- | et his own pleasure and is responsible only to bim- | crate, centra-distinguished frou federulists, advocated EUGINE MCGRATH, | t 9th ward. sume be construed in ell courts and places benignly doubly efficient for good—to restrict, in most cases, | ‘ hatically, | *elf and those he may represent. its eee 4 . HENRY ARCULARIUS, JR. f and favorably for every beneficial purpose therein, tite selection to democrats of undoubted orthodoxy wledge of political oc ju this Having set forth fally the facts of the case involved In all its doings since 1789, there fs no instanee of | __ Another act ofan unauthorized power was the de- | intended. (Signed) and fidelity, and to those who have been conciliatory | city, that the number of seals contested with appa- | 18 Our action, we will now briefly consider—Ist, The | its hnving taken an initiatory step in organizing the | sizuation by the Council of the wards represented, | ALEX. SiinLvon, Speaker of the House. ged tolerant in their political course. Aud the wide | reit ice, was greater among the twenty-eight | Propriety of any action on our pert; aad 2d, Tho | democratic republican party, and the Brothers are | and the persons holding certificates, recognized by Joux Broome, President of the Benate. mange of its membership hasintueed into it a national | than ‘acrong the thirty-two. t bs Ti ice of the action we finally took. awere there is nothing in the coustitution of the soci- | them, this disfroncbising the party, and wresting | In Council of Revision, April 9, 1806: init, and inculeated among its brothers sentiments | ~ {he pexsous ch be members of the Gene- necessity of action by us was beyond question. | ety, either | lic or private one, or in the by-laws, | the organi: of the General Cotumiitee from its | Rewolved, That it does not appear improper to the devel of sectionalism. Those who imbibed a love | pal Committee tor 1853 met at ‘Tammany Hall on lessee of Tammany Hall had important rights of | o:'in the act of Licorporation, that warrants any other | own acknow d and legitimate Seay: Cou that this Lill should become @ law of thir. of Meerty In the depths of the forest, where every the eveuing ef January 1th, the time designated. perty involved. Large snma of money have been | construction. The Counc chems having disturbed the ruling | State. (Signed) Morgan Lawm. @hject and every motion is suggestive of freedom, | As soon as the conun! have here clasped hands with those who, in tie | cpowded with membe woiitnde of the study, have traced in the futare te such an extent that the the progressive developement of human rights, and | givers was impessible. Daniel 5 tegetiier learned the lessons and the duties enjoined | yatod and lared to be chosen inve: by him in the improvement of the building, All its action not relating to the immediate order- | harmony oi the society by these proceedings, the ee Loess for which he isto he Rabe by his lease ; and | ing of the society, bas begn comprised in approval of | sons they sustained having met and worked, so far, | Court of General Scastonse that lease is dependent upon the faithful perform- | principles advocated and of measures adopted, andin | in consonance with their instructions, the osonviction | Before Hon. f. R. Tillov, and Aldermen Wealey ence of the covenants we have quoted. He had a | receiving and entertaining republicans who had per- | is inevitable that the course of the Sachems, having Smith and Bard, ne course he was to take so distinctly | formed signal services in cabinet er council, or who | distracted the body over whose interests it is their Fen. 9.—Acquittal—Indic! ment for Tees ter,againsta Licensed Dealer, ly Admin tee room was opened, it was " ants aid 8 ators, ly transaction of bu- slavan was noriti- imman, pro ten., brotherly love, mutua! dependence, and common | s alao A of mantles | maiked out by us that he could not possibly go | were distinguished for brilliant exploits in arms. duty to preside with peaceful intents, threatens now I imistering Le The heroes of every battlefield, the favorite | lgeleris, eae fe aoe ener eee | Wrovg. We were bound, npon receiving his notice, The ouly political power claimed by the Council of | a worse evil. . Spiritvous Luyuor—This was a pi of ra- sons of every State, and the noble men who have led pied ty the. chairman. Delavan received, put, | t2.decide the matter in con roversy, ‘The responsi- | Sachems, self-manufactured, is contained in a A large and reapectable nnmber of the members | ther a novel nature, the iudictment ape ing, at . tn every contest for democratic principles and State and dcoided motions by which Geonge H. P: rece anh | Dn <upon us we could not evade, neither | clause inserted in the lease to Joseph W. Howard, | of Tammany Socicty resisting the coutinnous and | first sight, rather es if it had been found under the ) . ad te: See. y dosire to do so. that, in the event of a doubt arising in hismind, or | disastrous usurpations ofthe Sachems,calleda general = Muine Liquor act, than as it was, at common law of iris aA Garces Gainer i Agnin, at one General Committee ts entitled to | in the mind of the Grand Sacham, or ane culty | meeting ‘for Wedue: ay evening, January 2th, ab | the State of New York. Tho defendant, Mr. Charles ) that office by Mr. | the use of Lammany Hall. That right is expressly | whetever, in ascertaining the political chary 74 o'clock, “to consult upon ard adopt the best James, keeps a boarding, lodging, eating and liquor enized him as ebairman, | Terexved to the committee in succession to that of | ary political party who shall be desirous of obtaining res to vindicate the society from the disgrace | ¢;tablichiment in Warren stvect, which, as conceded. omy, twas moved thas | Which Elijah #. Purdy was chairman in 1512, by the | adinission to said building, (Tammany Mall.) for the | attendant upon the unprecedented assumptions of | by the prosecution, is conducted in a highly respect- ly i part ‘ipate in the termpo- | CoVeDants of the lease above quoted. That succes- | purpese of holding a political meeting there,” then the Sachems.’ able manner. i who held certiicates signed by a | Son could not be in two commitices at the same time. | either may notify the Father of the Counoil, in The lessees of Tammany Hall refused them per- it may be remembered (the particalars having xd by the General | 1 there were rival claims to the succession we could | writing, who therenpon should assemble the Grand | misson to meet, expressing a doubt, according to | heen very fully stated ut the time) that in December” Yishts in our national councils—the North, the South, tie Bast, the West—have ali been initiated into oar aid Geo Brvwerheod, and form the cirele of our Union. n like ma bh auspices our soviety bas heen conducted, — ji; nd tho: i therefore, naturally, as a conseguence foll its influence has been ty and vigor, the demo deus B. Glover w ¥ appoi who ree ty of the in @iiation among vmamittee for 1652, an tall othe sti not avoid a decision upon them, except by the basest | Council to decide the matter. There is no construc- | the instructions of the Sackemas, “as regarded their | last, a ‘returnca Californian named Charles Ro Denaficent B04 pe aie ene pram oe ra recrenney to the duty which our predeccssors fa | tion of this clause, however tortured, which could | gereral political principles.” Hecker, who had been boarding at the defend- Asis well known to you, thongh perhaps net to | Delavan and ary, and decided by each'to be | fice covenanted that we should perform. justily its application to the organization of the Ge- ‘the members of Tammany Soclety, founded con- | ant's house, was removed to the hospital, mporanconsly with the constitution of the United where he died from the effecta of excessive 1 : ip. ‘ortified members was then | ., BUt, if this necessity had not existed, the duty of | neral Committee. If the society did not owa Tam- | te FS all : spent seria bea ales ee | the Council to act speedily and decidedly would have | many Hall the Council would be without even a pre- | States, which declares that the “ right of the people | intemperance. The facts of the case, ag it appeared F ito’ the sixty raembers were found | been imperative. The democracy of the State of | text for action in the present case. _ Can it be argued | peaceably to assemble, and to petition for a redress _ from the evidence now uddnced. were then #0 exag- organization. ‘Tammany, seit. A: beyoad disp }, ; New York have recently experienced the evils of | that the naked fact of proprictorship gives them any | of grievances,” shall never be interfered with, were | gerated and distorted before the Coroner's jury, and bef ideatiied with every democratic strug- | the concer claimed a right | divisions, which were disastrous not only to the power to constitute comm:ttees or control the party? | thus denied their “ inherent and unalienable rights.” | elsewhere, that the Grand Tuqnest was indaced to gia, from the time of ite erection to the present. | cit fate, the Commit adopted, of necess but also to the democracy of the Union. “These di i there had heen no building to manage, no lease to They met, despite the prohibition, appointed a | find the present indictment, whereby the defendant Alike in victory and in defeat, it has been the home | own action, the only feasible basis for a ; | Sion have fortanately been adjusted, and under a | construe, there would not have been any interference | ccmuittee to draft resolutions in pursuance of the | was charzed with causing the death, i being repre- & sound principles, Within its walls sectionalsin bos gyranization, the saute being the one which was spe- | CoMMen banner the whole party marched with | by the Council of Sachems, and the democracy would | cbject of the call, and adjourned to mect atthe Coun- | sented that he had iuauced him to drinks with a Rever reared its head, and faction bas found no | ¢ 5d in the call of the meeting by the Gre Goun- | locked step to triumph. It was not to beallowed | have rettled their own disputes in their own way, | cil Chamber of the Great Wigwam, on Friday even- | view to his own edvantage and to appropriate bis rter. Whatever may have been the diviaions j ne sth " | thet in Tammany Hall, inthe moment of victory, | under the same roof, and accountable only to their | ing, Jan. 28th, at the ueval hour, On that evening | property. i either in tue Union or in | 4s soon as the members were left to theneelves, a | 274 Upon the threshold of the power which it in- | constituents. it is a singuler fact that ‘upon this | they found the Council in session; and, demanding | div. A. O. Hall, having opened for the prosecution. ie organisation in Tammany | yecolution was ofered that tose sitting in the Gene, | Yelved, the note of discord shouid be wantonly | clause in the lease, the Sachems have founded their | the right to mect, for the purpose they had an- called Ball has adhered to the regular democratic standard. | ral Comittee, being the persons certified to be | SUnded, and the victorious column severed by per | entize series of usurpations, interferiag with the om | nomiced, the reply of the Sachems can be found ia | Camilla L. Dege, of the Third ward police, who ‘The credit of these gratifying results may, in alarge | elected by a wapority of the inspectors, should ballot | @egree, be ascribed to the influence of our society. fer a temporary Chuirman. The question was put sonal dissensions. Experience has shown that dis- | ganization ofthe Democratic Republican General | the fell B | deposed—He knew the deceased, Becker, and knew ization is best paralyzed by uote and | Committee. ‘ , nae aa mh ete pres “deeper evaeorgpg psec | the defendant, Gens had been to Panama, anise: The extent and manner of the use of Tammany | }), e call of . | Vigorous remedies. And if misgrided brethren weve ‘Thirty-three thousand democrats voting in this city |, Halt, be Informe: isang pidhcted | turned last September. Witness took him Trail for polities! parposse, ja rina by the lease | \ baa ea ne a ee ags pestis ite | unwise enough to attempt the fatal policy of eeves- | on the second day of November, 1852, were not par- pl eae Le Nie ming, that 22 | November, to board at Mr. James’; he (the (of December 27, 1542) from the Tammany Society adopted ean sisted ante or st | sion, it was important that Tammmany Tall should ties to thet leare. Some, not belonging to the party, | eee ee ee eee y can be held in ‘ammany Tia, | @eceased,) was in good health, but was addict- t Joseph W. Howard, under which the building {s | twenty-cight members preseut omitt | not be the scene of their operations. ‘ Great | carried val nee of | al nd wit y—the other sto voie. Mr. nor acting with it, nor voting for its nominces, are | gyeert under a regular call siened by the reguiar olfieera | €d to drinking. Witness told the defendant 80; and Geoupied. Mr, Howard covenants as fcllows:—“And | Bary refurcd to entertain this resolution, aud, while | _ Not only the propriety but the necessity of action, members of the Tammany Society—the whole | of ihe pad in| secordanes’ with ‘tap dage amd | rvid not to give him too much—that he had been i at is the | of whose members number bet hundreds; and these 1 socioty. | “upon aspree.”” Saw him almost every day; he was ny | justice of the action me foal es One scretion | found in every county of the State and every State “ih oe au Sache oles coer on always eran: yeep had seen him qnce wp ieespenre agree, to and with the said parties of the first part, oan . osite side of the ro | Was confined to narrow limits. We could not pos- in the Union. i requested to call next regular m ly mouting of "state of stupidity; cautioned James again, ai ie Gemiuade Bociety.) their aaccama ad peal son a organized a GO AUP f ig och rg | sibly recognise the rogulatity of Mr. Barr and his Tursuant to the useges of the party, and in con- yo AT Opagadl Chasen can ertaatontn ' ttt ad | said that deceased would have it; had seen Mr. thet the present D ic General son for this secession was, the participation of | #*eciates as an orgunized body. As indivitaals | fonmity with the by-laws of the Democratic Repo | ie ci eee ain en ee Soo nwt ParDese , daives give him liquor; Mr. J. had charge of his mo- Committee of the city of rates of election were signed | they bad a prima fecveright to membership of the | can General Commtice, Brother Auguitus Schell, | 14 ACT ORGE 8. MISERRVE, Father. | Hey to the extent of £260. Deceased remained at eessore, shail have tle privilege of |} by a mo sd uot by ali of the inspectors j General Coiumitice, but there were futal detects to | chairman of the committee for 1852, issued a call for ©. C. Curis, Sexibe, pro tea. cs | My. James’ till the 20th, when Mr. J. took him to the patitical meetings in said Tammany Hall, during the | fay the war on is tutenable and absurd. | their claims as a committee. In the first place, | the committee elect for 186% to meet at Tammany The Sechems, aware that they had transcended hospital, where he died. eontinuance of this lease and the renewals thereof.” ll 1 dies, each constituency, if it has | they were indisprtubly seceders from the majority | Hall on the eecond Thrrsday of January, (the 13ta), | their delegated authority, and feeting that they could Cross-exnmined by Mr. Camp for the defence—De- The manuer in which the # ssion of the | lected, is entided to representation, i person | of the commitiee. For this secession no jnstification | at 74 o'clock in the evening. uot meet the general outraged sense of the society | fendant never asked him, in the presence of Mary General Committers, entited to the use of the Hall, | who prod ces the bet ev se of bis election has | W8S shown. In the second place, they were not! From 1is9 to 1452 the Bachems never agenmed to ith any excuse, or even plausible defence, tool Cohen, to take he deceased away; haa on onr part, being clear, the only other pe the suid party of the second part, the roll calied, withdrew from the Bewerd) doth hereby farther covenant, promise aud | chairmaa’s ad, with a number of other members whose abould be determined, is prescribed in the fellowiag he wrina fac ht to sit aa the repre: ive. | num enough te fea a quorum, aud of course | calla meeting of the General Commztee, or to spe- elter in a pretended concession, authorizing the | limeeif drank with the deceased; Mr. James eovenant:— : it _ ntific facts actly dnvaytianee Pyare } could take no action as a commitice, Upon tl cify when it should meet, or dictate the mode of its rand Bactent to call the regular meetii ithe | puid over to the Coroner £120, and delivered. be signed by all the inspectors, [ ii “and the said pa W. Howard.) for b furs, and assizns, mad part, OF ors, adiini: further coy 1 shewing they numbered bat twenty-live, whi organization, cr to sit in judgment upon the credea- | society—a duty incumbent on him—without their , up his trunk; that was all that was left of the $250; m of one inspec: | 2 {ull committee consists of sixty. And if twent tials of the delegates. formal resolve.” Upon the urnment of the Coun- Witness drenk with the decezsed five or six times; he ad i: calling an ex-Grand | drank gin, and witness soda water; could uot pre- im that it must be i sant, | tor equal to Seah eerees ol teas for it allows his mere | five could act, the committee, instead of being split | — ‘The cull of Brother Schell was made on the third | ci the membax organize | pmise, and agree, as aforesaid, that he, his exe tire eutra positive action of the ma- | C&C, Might, with equal propriety, have been di- of Janusry. The Council of Suchems, the same | gochem, Juco Brush, to the chair, and ordered a | vent the deceased from drinking, but Mr. Jamew ta administrators, or assigns, shall pot, and will Seen by Bice ¥ lata ro gracile 8 ire | vided into many parts, each of which, though # | evening, Peers of that fact, ordered a meeting of | Fublication of their grievances, stat, | could; had drank whiskey in that house once or mot, knowingly ally, and with a view to “point ideas, aud strikes at the very basis of our poli- | Sall_minority ‘of the whcle, would claim to be a | the General Committee. Unwartantable asthis was, Twenty-six days of January, 1953, have comprised | twice, perhaps, himeelf; he was not~a temperance violate this leas, fterm hereby grauted, | tica! instisutions. if the iaw of our general elec | General Committee. - they stretched further their encroachments, by de- | ail the political action of the Tatnmany Sosiety. man, but sometimes did not drink for some months: @ either of t e thereof, let or lea-e, | jod been in accordance with it, a reckless minority In these two particulars the Delavan organization | cluring who should constitute the General Commit | yoy sixty-four. years, from the administration of | drank when he sed; nothing was said of deceased @irevtly or indirectly, any part of the said premises | of in-pectors conld have prevcated any of the tri- | “ted upon exactly opposite grounds. Its racmbers | tee—as witness their resoliition:— Washington to'the present day, in which the con- | paying witness's pastege to California; he was not above described to “any other potitiea party whateo- | yphs by which the great cause of popular rizhts | Werte not sccedere, and they constituted a quoram or | Rorolyed, that the delegates from the several wands to | struction of its constitution hea’ become fixed, the | disappointed by not gAting it. mojovity of the whole committee. Looking merely | the Democratie Republican Genoral Committtee for to the ubctract question of right, ovr duty was | elee'ed pursuant to the enll of the Demoeratie Repubi measures of public policy end distinguiehed men. It | Swern—Kuew the deceased; he died from int where zener) political principles do vet appearto yyje of the majority, until the masses rising ia their clearly to recognise {¢ as the General Commuittce en- | General Committes for 164, at the time and places sisted pureved an even, liarmonioua course, avoid ali | effects of delirium tremens and contnsions the them to be in accordance with the gene: strength, forc extinguished this more deadly fonn Hiled to the use of Tammany Hall. This we did sub- i ar sen eecree ee se edn gd Sig ban aap merel; purtizan or political xima——devoted all that | head and face; there was # post mortem examination; Beitical principles of the Democratic Republican of a morbid oouservatiem, aa elfoctually as they have | ftantlally, but in such manner as to give those who | tian ‘srerequeste ta eee tielen Tice d th an hcnest fullligent of a mission, hither | there were such eymptoms ax would be found ina eneral mittee of the city of New York, of | ave i a B ite them, ererequested to meet at Tammany Hail on Taara- | Perier , b 1 n its Jew harmies manifestations, by the , bed withdrawn from it,an honorablechancetore-unite | soevening January i8, 185% {past seven o'clock, | unsuiied through every vicissitude. Lf the exigen- person who died froin intemperance; considerable wich jal F, Pandy. ia “At proent chairman. For Pallovbos are with the majority. Although they have not availed | (87 evening, January 18, 185i, at half past seven o'clock, spas a ae! , in ease there should ; Q ‘After M 3 \ Sfhod cies which called it_ into existence have ceased, bet- congestion of the brain, and s1 ion of seraom. - s supporters had withdrawn | themeelves of it, we are not less gratified that we GEORGE §, MESSERVE, Father of the Coune!l. & dowbt arising in the mi by theme! se ; tor for it to perish than endure only toencourage fuc- | Crosé-examined.—He would say it was trom long embers who retained their Made the effurt to harmonize the ditferences which K. Downrna, Scribe. tiens and divisions in the party it has hitherto been | covtinued intemperance; that he was an intempe- party of the second part, his executors, places, being i had axiven. Its failure bas not affected the iniportant | waters, or assicns. or in the w of the Grand | the election of jority, forinally re-organized, ve b is xpecial meeting of the Sachems held at ant to avi ‘and encourage i ig Tate man. are, b Javan, borane en mcd end whicl was certain in eny event, the exclisive nee of any members of the committee elect, ae Cae oe | _ Francis Coutant—Know deceased; boarded at Mr. Bachem of the said society for the time being, or as temporary officers, They then adjaurned, tu mect political ue of Tamacy Hall by the regular orgaui- fc isagrecing democrats, or spon- We call npon the members now, in calm, mild, bat | Jemes’s; had seen him intoxicated very often; had didiculty whatever between them, in ase gain at Tainmany Hall, on the evening of Jan. Isth, | "tion. . > Was it to carry out the purposes of per- | decided lagsuaze, to rebuke these acts, aud abandon | *¢en people drink with and give him liquor; had the political cheracter of any po! n ted wilh Mr. Barr, enrolled twenty- | Mr. Harr, for himself and his agtoclates, presented sons not members of the society, to construct a com- | those mischievons innovations, which can only feen Mr. dames give him liquor; did not know him- shall be desirous of obtaining eir body, and also ad- | ® ere t tothe Council, which they have also pub- | mittee serving selfish ends? “They had destroyed guther blight and mildew around the towering brow to do so often; witness was there three times a day, Dailding, for the prrpose of bok: - lished in the newspapers. In this docrment objection | the nnion of the society. Were they reckless of con- | Of Old ‘Temm: y- 24 atincal times only; thonglt the intemperance was- meeting therein, thet then, and in # +on the ground | sequenecs involving the harmony or the party ? if the action of the Council is now confirmed, what nued; he was all the time stapid or drank; said party of the second part ae exec e moos re tay eo met . the Spanier Jannary. | dees the future disclose? A change of Sachema— yaw him otherwise. trators, or astigns, ehall ther here is no riled to organize for reasons familiar wo the | the py nt ms ured Gen ‘ommiitee ous | closed the cave for the prosecution, and Mr. thereof in writing to the Grand jects contem- 3 he present manulectured General Commiitee ousted | he pr a Mr. ather of the C ciety: but that | The same members of the Conncil, or some of | upaitcrable from the beginning to this hour, becomes brothers. from Tammany Hall—the organization of the party, er conterring with the ‘Court, said thy Grand Kachem of cding thereto the more | them, who had proposed the resolution of January | the sport of chance and changing circ eves, calling themselves committees or otherwise, for | has reac is present advancement; and sack expe- “ society confined itself to the commendation of great the purpore of holding any political meeting therein, | dients would have been inverposed to subvert the Dr. Heian Sedgwick Ss ilt, of the City Ngan mbers of thu of January, at Tammany Hall dies had compromised itsel!, as no person had ee day 36 eye ‘porated for a snernnee op ciee eres: Caton | “Goche tBatuhee Ad adjourned to mect at the | Pitted in the ity ization of ow , ‘ar some evidence for the defence. Mx, Comp briefly ade two be society sha!l iu virtue is not diminished hb jury, ¢ ; % BE i alas a 4 eas | u } n y 1 astanees, sed the jury, eharacteriz-~ Bereupon give notice in writing bot pre haeml scaycby apis er une 1 permanent | extended benclicence which looks to the ood of the | id,and one or more persons, not memvers of the | yhieihe democntie purty succeeds only to.an in. | ing the charge esa hase ono, muandecuieed ge tilg the second part, his executors, adm the chairmansbip.of Mr. I Ss " ntry, aud the political right every class | society, prepared a docement and procured the sig- | peritance of feuds, factions, and petty divisions, in- ne defendant, who did. assigns, that doubts have ariven in hi siiveminant inet fe > of its citizens. It would be as reasonable to assert at | nature of Mr. Howard, the lessee, which implied | stead of the glorious carcer that awaits it if true to ita | have done to protect the political character of « ¢ seve we gis abel a ties tice: oe neondey, in the face of the sung it that that orb that a doubt existed in his mind as tothe general | jopoved vsaces. lly taken care of and given seeking admission to «a ‘head ‘Seanveuatelied does not emit light, as to deny that the Tammany | political principles of the persons opposed to the | ‘The records of your society are preserved—ex- is property, alter payment of the hospital and Was open to Ly is a polit Indeed, its politi- | dictat: need mention, much less proof of its existence. But if the society was nat of the Sechems, ond claiming to organize | gynine them, You’ wil find that the Ss « tothe well known nm: | expenses. fe called several witnesves, the chief of whom was Mary Cohen, who depoxed that she waa the ser : | hems have | finer e kDo rs of the demo- | peyer interfered with cither tie culling together or Upon this simulated document, so ob- | the organization of the Democratic Republican Gone- : in which * 4 But Mr. Barr ended te and daty 0 ied toa public room, , j med on of all the -sraeete of # political, it would nevertheless have the right to con- special mectings of the Council were | ra} Committee. | vant, ‘and that Becker would come down in the teipt of such written notice : trol the use of its own bulldingr end thatis the ouly | bi t separated without action, feeriug | ently there have been contending and fully | morning at five o'clock, ond insist on having four or party of the second part, lis exe cht we Lave exercised. the gat storm, whose muttering thunders were | i I. The | five glasses of Hqnor, at which time Mr. James was d comm s in Tam! ction ieken in. the protest a, that | then heard in the Council Chamber. I the Conucil bas never acted in cases involving mere | ond meeting iseucd the’ following ast rity, but has confined the exercise of of depar cently, the | ‘ ees Were orguni: obstructed in their meeti vs. In the latter ca up; Mr. Jaime ked Dege to tale him and Doge raid he had no authority. [t was that when it was refased he would go out ik ckewhere. The other witnesses were ry, on Corman ( of the Counel question as to th from, or he the Si mth ‘sig fachems edings, ud , pura or persons ane hove qnoted, were | {tablished principle tic party, 7) Bo y recommended a convention of the people. The ad- as to the character of the eatablishment. Tha ing, for the leases af the Kall and by thes tL yrere | incorrectnees of ‘this pe i arte easil voter Ret ) iepoblica, | Vice was rdopted, and the result wasn xctory. Court rotermipted t ying ms unnecessary, porn ihe A special meeting s ie for daGO, be brasee peer a | Establish rule that tho Sachems cur direct the | and Mr. Hall Pally coipet he papers pete es ¢ afternoon of January | Vong orcanigation was eifected, besame divide? inte | organization of the most miporti aud responsible | a& spread vefore hie C4 ~% appeared Me thereupon. give notice in wi'ling of ties nando Wood ox Cha nd the other w: ti to have been elveted to the in its constitation, lawa, apc eealaaent crane lie Wathen the said party of the se rt, Western. 7 ms were called ny neral Com for the y power over the party, and re was not i «cence to sustain sehiieiadieds, oF pani: , Id ccenpy Tammany Hall. } will then decide what persons shai necuame rhe Ap AA nilied t h | The deve ; ran.of intetm: said party of the ee Council, upon motion of Cornel d committer, and that no puiltical eon. | the nam needed vig ide apd | < i Pare ii said party ~ . H this Hall until Frid } honor. Ordain that, from and after this tirae, the Will i 5 apy dh istvators, or assigns, it i at a copy of this resolution be of the Sacberos can intervene in the temporary organ- c : rumediately r: and agreed, by 5 vor of the Ha'l, exd vpon the t cn of the party, and decide upon the morits of | terned a verdict vex in, James wa + be final, cone 1 g uy a claim to be the chelrmen pro (en | conf stion, and you establish the | discharred fron riz said parties hereto, and their and ea party. T ; RGE 5. MERSERVE, Father. | ¢ 63 | For ever rob- | is is by no ‘he monntal + cose executors, 1a evetioxezolred! 1 i, 8 ic! the saer mediators, invoking Court—th + t will be seen by the ond th 4 oh te A a aeeeninme te _Arrogating the right, on the 3d of January, to meny, they « nly heveafter raise the banner of n aspect power to determine til the ever End the Hw sn toes ret ined iat wl = font | dictate how the organization of the General Corsinit- | faction, and harl the tomuba of discord. They are She Hall for poll 6 ute Wale eal | tle sexsion of the Convention elected under that coll. | tee should he effected, they now nsurp the power to | + power only possessed by the people them- Ceuneil of ‘the This convention ordered theelestion of a new General | determine and declare wito shell be ite members, | de'ezoted only to. their General Committee, | that the i the Western Comraittees "The committee was choscn which, presuming to act upon such authority, raust | 4 ot to the Council of Sachemas. cates © cei accordingly, and organiéed, with Kdward 0. Wor ceag to repre sent the demoen ec paity. Having di- | attitude at defiance, ab war % always been cheerfnily ‘ ‘ er ae chairman, and was succeeded by the comm! | ase Qateenuetiomata’ cantante 2 Whoa Rubyankes Brinks | the democratic party ; and ui ¢ ious le c 1651, elected under its call, of which Robert J. Dil- | masses of the peo} 7 he question noquired w Moral force quite ns eiftctive as the abo Rogardus, leading partisans of the : | lon was chairman; | ther characterize Unia © star chamber” jurisa 1 ma of the |} we ae Secs ity for Whe tonttace of HOS | ton, earn the adoption of the substitute Fonrcenes ou . a 1 | At the third meeting, those contestants who of Sacheras, recent. policy and | t him for his pert in the original your Comal: was gh glo Y | which Lad rejected. It was apposed that | Aney"e pene tras favored the mistal of the Council of Sa- | nction, are to be apheld, or whether the invariable | he refused to go, and thoy“ clubbed” I fols by us fo be an occe Of dee ‘ t avietion that their iriends had | wittee, It thus dicey were reprerertoc chein J usages of the society are to be re-established and | presented the gun, but denied he knew Shepowere pleasant af any time Paget i vw mnst prove 1 | West Committee of 1450, « sumed to have receiv vv iained. We do ‘not flinch trem the encounter. , or heard the capinin say so. Mm A. ‘ence, maade the points:—Thas © thoy must prove an actual ance, or that he intentionoliy ided Brandes; that he was there for the legal re before you—the line must bo rs, we ask your republican co- » are for peace. Shall we have peace ‘or you to decide, ane of esc The anbetite veavizatic et t reohert ¢ tinls of three wards, whose delegates afterwarda | 71 publiched the fact thatihey denied the authority of ihe hema, i i 1 subsaiteed P The resolu- has had its somree in the no one of these con tees could trace its geneal buck beyond that hoe An endeavor has ween made by this building to an and it is more un chems, and te did th ne comin icipate on an py creden jons of the & : ‘ - the \ achems and the card of delezates to the Jacon Baven, Chairman. | purpose of getting bis own gun. The felonious charge a sonree of grief + Me Oh rete. mage - sons who have been engaged in the ¥ we | coneral committee from the First, Eighth and Ninth R. B. CONNOLLY, ) goons | had been abandoned, The Court left it to the ‘ey only to ont opponents. i bs te was yeood i Reve recently passed pou, to connect it with puitdi- | Wards are as follow! Jor. T. Swept, | ¢ Pectetaries. | whether there had been an assault, and they, alter oft between wh ie ’ 2 Pabs) ig ed And visions in the democratic ran Appeals of tha Tacrany Wars, Jan. 29, 195%, 0 a | some deliberation, came in, unable to agree, and have nothing to Bey fat eg ) elure you ‘ ution he vie degen ru ave had no inflm npon na. We were At a speeini meeting of the Council, t a P. he Tammany Society. | were, with the assent of the Assistant Distriet Ate he facts upon which we acte 4 : ral ye he oe a cared | P annual election in April last, to com yi ong were adopted and ordered to be published, with | 4N AUT TO INCORPORATE TUR SOCI“TY OF TAMMANY | torney, discharged. ‘The foreman caused some At the opening of the 7 le ndvin, ase’ € ™ pore your council, by a unautnous vote. We have | the thereon, vi OR COLUMBAN ORDER, IN THE orty OF NuW | Jangliter by stating, in a very simple manner, that erstic organization in this city w a oo y endeavored to reqnite that high mark of confiden lone having haen cer- YORE. they stood ten to two, and A was not likely th end. ‘The General Committes for 1 4 rovided | Grand muneil has since been | hy a proportiounte fidelity in the diveharge of the : , i re appointed by Whereos, William Mooney and others, inhabitants | contd debe. pal Mirtle. Bo imary meetings for the election of the comnutt ttack | ort of the | duties of that t. So fur as our action has tou | a haste re actie te R Mm of New York, bave presented a petition to Adjourned {30 this morning (Thursday for 1sb3, cated to include, Vas it siouid | Sarr 0 of forty-one free pie ye dean ym Beta B eye Nottlon at the erases ting Bele debe, we aaatak the Lewoleture, setting forth that th y fnee the | b ccna ee — sat oI A e designation of te t és ed to ampt p o* c ant ea nes. 2 bers of the Demoeratia Re. | Year o 0 ‘ undred and eighty-nine, Jonrt of Speela ions, at Which the members o choson show meeting ai Tosa many Hall, host @ to th ential vuion and harmony, without which she party | jie 1 Colentéted for 2806)-ne6- peveraiiyens't! eve fsociaied themselves under the numc and Refore the Recorder aud Ald. Barr and Mord. . meet for organization, Vader. inary cirvom- | cedented assumption of the Sachems.” Of ca 3 power But neither at prevent, ner in the pasi, | ited hy that committee, antil tt shail otherwise | Jescription of ‘ The Society of Tammany or Colam- | Fines—Zhe Celestiols al the Sessions. ion t i . A piermit the t “ a 2 oA 'y Sessions. Antonio stances, the supply of thix omission might haye i pot per e q © used for th ve the 0 now compose your council } m determine — : ‘ ian Order,” for the purpose of affording relief to | Pereiro, the Portuguese interpreter to the Chinero ” eon safely pied volnntary action of the mem oweve Poon none in their sentiments. Even pr not. | 1s “KR. 7, Mulligan, Nicholas Dimond, Michae | ‘he indigent end distressed of the said association, | frompe, late at the Broadway sheatre, was brought np bers elec itwas publicly ertived that dhe ® Bachem Core y ynding the clearness of the case decided by us, “ their widows end orphans, and others ¥ f ui e plaint of Te rf result of the primary elections in vixtoon of the oe nd Counolly, one of | one of the ¢ uncil 54 a diseentient. So, also, in 134s, i Pdley Haley, William Miner, James Legestl. | found proper objects of thelr charity; Tiny: tice | Cheatin body er tad, uae by Bh twenty , was to ¢ cot ated. aay p/) whom voted os ees - Lorna 3 ~w », | thowg ih more than two-thirds ne the eter Fletcher J v1 fore, solicit ‘that the Legisintare wiil be pleased by | night last, a8 related ia oar police intelligence of Sone, slesos prin: 5 dopa a pon val i poluteidly fits i 4 wey i gn | er ional a oeae alt eabeerboner ta : ith Waré—Jocob PB. Oakley, Joveph Hilton, George H. j Jaw to re) corporate kat poctety for She purpones Sunday, +a tu ‘i “mg oe follower pointedly r ¢ hal! minority of them acted A or of the urer aforesaid, under sich limitations and restrictions as d Ww oO! 2 complainant's countrymen wers by separate organizations. And there wasrea- | Tue Gtnnd Couneil di I not intend, by i oy of thie State who did not. Those of ns § DenieF E. Delevan, Richard T. Compton, | the | iture shall deem meet-—Therefore, present, but they were hebited in very ordinary look- son to sppeaieed, fist with rival claimants, nearly | to aan ny pore ee ee Coane td | who supported Com and Batler fin’ sulicient grati- | Canon. sy. Hemy Avoartun a, | y B® it eaueted, ty the people of the State ot New | Tog tertentsial, hot to say Yantkeo paccounte, wlocheoo mfficient in. number to form two (ull cousuiiter’, jermancntly a euaud iatertare wot fication in car own action, withont sceking to in- -William D, Kennedy, Henry Arewariur, Jr, | York, represented tn Senate and Assembly, thateuch | the cisgust of the crowd assembled in anticipation this latter evil would enaue with only a si the committee had been vevered Into two bodte crea by disparagement of others; and those of 1 Thoines Th. Yaron, Thad. | MeOn* as now are, or shall from time to time be- | of beholding the Wastrious strangers, There wag call, The proper course to be taken to avert ¢ + first meetin was proper for the Council to as er motives, took a contrary course, oma arom, hie | Come, memberw of the 4 | nelther a tail to be seen, nor, as it turned impending enlamnities, was a subject which addcewed for the eredentials of the members, ag, in adjiu mepntattor to the action of Miles Jk Andrews, | hereby’, ordained, cone | he told, for the injured party, ition, hata iuelf with gravity and force to the mind oi every | « atwren them, it wat mevearary to know, a to any rown. Bnt thow , meets | Hoey vorperate tod politic, in deed, fact, and name, | parted to Philadelphia, ‘he come onan chenetore, well meaning democrat. aly Ae to ‘ i decide, who and haw many of ti \ Wek vebom Janos Caswidy, | hy the name of "The Boclety of Tammany or Co- | adjourned till Vriday next, to procare, if posable, Thy Cepgaas Committee fur 3862 was devapct, and | perons cla mpose each » Monod iihy, Nuubian Orcer, in the city of New Werk,” aud bat hy | due attendance,