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Show NEW YORK IN THE REVOLUTION. Gotham Was Tory to the Cora Durlna the Great Struggle. New York was tory to the core. Those who think It sordid and commercial com-mercial to-day should pore over tho records of tho actual history of its men of affairs in tho years when the common people were fighting battles for Independence, says tho Success Magazine in an article on Tammany hall. No soldiers marched out from its streets to Join the ranks of men under Washington. Its wealth paid no taxes for tho support of the revolutionary revo-lutionary cause. Tho future metropolis metropo-lis was dominated by alleged Americans Ameri-cans who believed that Independence menaced their vested Interests. They were convinced that democracy threatened their social prertlgo, tbey wero instinctively fond of tho gauds and trapping of royalty, they let money mon-ey and position above country they were tho lalssei falre of half a century cen-tury later, and the amug prptotypea of tho bourbon reactionaries of today. to-day. It was their Influence which prolonged pro-longed the war of indepencnce- Tncy believed that only tho power of royalty royal-ty could keep tho despised mob under control. They had stubbornly and : succesafully resisted every attempt of the masica to secure even a vestige ves-tige of political right They dreaded lest a tlmo ehould come when men with ballots In their hands should attempt at-tempt to conflsoate their property. They had no more patriotism than a modern corporation seeking to evado Its taxes or to steal a franchise. Thla numerous and powerful class did its best to thwart American liberty, and when It wae won despite them there was consternation in the mansions of New York. With tears and foreboding! forebod-ing! they watched the evacuation of the city by the British: iome of them fled, but most of them remained. |