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 edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. 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…
