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Show BIRTH OF TAwlMANY ORGANIZATION AN OFFSHOOT OF SONS OF LIBERTY. Great Society Really Founded by William Wil-liam Mooney and Had Its Inception Incep-tion In Hatred of the Torle. Tammany was founded by Wllllaj Mooney, an Irishman by descent, an American by birth, an upholsterer by trade, and, according to Success, an organizer nncl doubtless an ngttntor by Instinct. Mooney and most of the men associated asso-ciated In the founding of Tammany had been members of tho Sons of Liberty. Lib-erty. With tho close of tho revolution this society was disbanded, It being assumed that Its work was done. Tho suspicions of tho proletariat wcro aroused when Alexandor Hamilton Hamil-ton threw his powerful influence and protection ever tho hated Tories. They found themselves powerless to prevent to office men known to have been RoyallBts. They had no votes with which to prevent this, and the proud patricians smiled scornfully ns they paused nt tho doors of coffee houses and taverns tav-erns and listened to the denunciation of theso landless nnd thorcforo disfranchised dis-franchised patriots. Conspicuous among tho resorts frequented fre-quented by our ancestral Now York prolctnrlnt was Borden's, or the City Tavern. This wns lornfcd on Broadway, Broad-way, not far from Bowling flreen, and within n stone's throw of the piesent Standard Oil building. Tho tavern wns the forum of jiopu-lar jiopu-lar debate in those days, nnd If wo wcro permitted to examine tho original orig-inal drafts of many famous nnd patriotic pa-triotic documents we would likely find them stained with ale and Jamaica rum. It was a day when tho preacher drank his toddy from tho pulpit and In which neither tempernnco nor abstinence wns esteemed as virtues. William Mnclny and Robert Morris wcro tho first scnntois from Pennsyl vania nnd both attended tho Initial session of congiess in New York city. Senator Maclny kept n journal of Its proceedings, and his comments and deductions nro tho delight of closo students of history. Under dnto of May 12, 1790, wo find tills entry: "This day exhibited a giotosque scene In the streets of Now York. Being Be-ing tho old first or May, tho Sons of St. Tammnny hnd n grand Btreet parade through tho town In Indian dress. I dellveied a talk at ono of their meeting houses nnd went away to dinner. "There seems to be some soit of schema laid of erecting sotuo sort of order or society under this denomination, denomina-tion, hut it docs not scorn well digested di-gested ns yet. The expense of tho dresses must havo boon considerable, nnd tho money lnld out on clothing might havo dressed some of their ragged rag-ged beggars. But the weather Is now warm." This nigged and fearless old hater of royalty and nrUtocracy had participated partici-pated In tho celebration of tho first nnnivcrsary of tho founding of tho Society of Tammany. |