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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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which it catered, had added the power of the great foreign population which rapidly was piling up in New York. In the twenty years previous more than 2,000,000 immigrants had landed at the port of New York and a great many of them had remained to settle in that city. Tammany helped them to become naturalized - quickly - and taught them how to vote. Fernando Wood found the Democratic Party - its members were known more popularly as "Loco-Focos" rather than Tammanyites in that day - admirably suited to his purposes save for one thing. Slavery was a paramount issue in 1850 and it had invaded even the erstwhile solid ranks of the Wigwam. A conservative element, known as the "Hunkers," favored slavery without restriction, while the radical "Barnburners" believed it should be allowed to spread no further.
Despite this factional difficulty Wood set himself to win the Democratic nomination for Mayor and did so. By a judicious mixture of bribery and soft-stepping between the opposing elements in the Hall he emerged as the 1850 standard-bearer, a consummation which led the aged Philip Hone, himself a former Mayor and one of the most able and upright incumbents of that office, to note woefully in his famous diary:
"The Loco-Focos have nominated Fernando Wood for Mayor. There was a time when it was
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