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The Tammany Hall Democracy Of The City Of New York - And The General Committee For 1875 (1875) (Paperback)
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The Tammany Hall Democracy Of The City Of New York - And The General Committee For 1875 (1875) (Paperback)
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Subtitle: And the General Committee for 1875, Being a Brief History
of the Tammany Hall Democracy From 1834 to the Present Time General
Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1875
Original Publisher: M. B. Brown, Printer Notes: This is a black and
white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and
there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books
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Excerpt: It must be acknowledged by those whose minds are not too
strongly- tainted with the poison of political prejudice, in
studying the characters of those forming the General Committee in
Tammany Hall, that they will most favorably compare with those in
any other political organization in our city or State. With such
men as have been mentioned -- many of them moving in the higher
circles of society, and an honor to our mercantile and financial
community; others gracing the bench of the higher courts of our
judiciary; others resplendent lights of the bar of our State; and
many, also, following honest and profitable vocations of the most
useful and meritorious character, forming a galaxy of intelligence
unsurpassed -- the voice of detraction must be silent against them.
. It is well known that men who engage in public life must expect
to find that they will be the subject of everybody's opinion --
that of the malicious and vulgar; of the brutal and the ignorant;
and of the intelligent and the learned. Though frequently treated
harshly, and the victims, sometimes, of great injustice, the true
and worthy man has nothing to fear from the noisy murmers that
reach his ears from the lips of those who ever fail to applaud and
appreciate virtue, and who frequently are ready to condone and
excuse crime. The man, in any sphere of life, who conducts himself
with propriety and honesty, who has no reason to conceal his acts
from public view, need care b...
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