Note 13 — Chapter XXI · WOOD’S SECOND ADMINISTRATION 1856-1859

Of this action Talcott Williams (Tammany Hall, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1898) says: “For the first time, the Tammany Society, which is only the landlord of the political body which leases its hall, exercised its singular power of deciding between rival organizations.” This, of course, is a decided error. Repeated instances of the activity of the society in this direction have been given in this work.