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Tammany: 1789-1928 Tammany Hall; The Organization; and the Sway of the Bosses By Allan Frankin
Originally published 1928 |
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other perplexing problems as he tacked and sewed and stuffed. At last he hit upon the answer. The thing to do, he decided, was to fight fire with fire, to combat the pretensions of aristocracy with the solid substance of democracy - in short, to form a rival society.
Apparently a bit fond himself-for a late riflebearer in the forces of the Continental Congressof a certain amount of pomp and panoply, Mooney was fairly well-known in his community as a practicing patriot, a willing and even eager participant in such public demonstrations as rallies, meetings and parades. Thus, when the idea of an association of commoners began to grow upon him, he was in a position to present its merits from the heights of sufficient prestige to assure him listeners and, shortly, sufficient followers. On May 12, 1789, a little over two months after George Washington had assumed the Presidency and the United States of America had begun to function under its Constitution, the Society of St. Tammany, or Columbian Order, was founded.
The name was shrewdly chosen with an eye to capitalizing both patriotic and historical prestige and has stood unchanged for nearly a century and a half although there is little in the society's ritual, activities or celebrations to-day reminiscent either of St. Tammany or of Christopher Columbus.
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