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XI. THE AMPHIBIOUS WOOD 131
Cant
The comedy is finished
XII. TILDEN, EDITOR 138
Scores prohibition
Making a martyr
Fanatics defeat Tilden
As Fernando sees himself
XIII. PLAYING ON PREJUDICES 149
Debasing the primary
W. B. Astor whitewashes Wood
Infernal fires
Kicking them out
Armageddon
Tweed's defeat
XIV. "SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN . . ." 165
Underfed bodies and famished minds
A slave of emotions
Cobbler decides for Greeley
A bat with a woman's face
Madame Killer
Vox populi
Madame Restell scores
A scion of Citizen Genet
The Bi-partisan Board
The outlaw police force
The Police riot
July 4, 1857
Erecting the barricade
The battle
An orderly retreat
The rout
Regularity
Political auxiliaries.
XV. BIGOTRY VERSUS BIGOTRY 205
When the City Hall was sold
The new Grand Sachem
XVI. THE DOMINANT IDEA IN POLITICS 212
Tweed follows Wood's example
The Grand Sachem escapes
Boor, Satyr, and Clown
Rynders threatens Tweed
The argument of freedom
A free city
Kerrigan's army
XVII. "A SULKY, UNBROKEN SILENCE" 229
A quack imitates society
XVIII. TWEED DEFEATED FOR SHERIFF 235
Tweed elected County Chairman
XIX. REGAINING HIS FORTUNE 240
"A career at nisi prius"
"Better let the dirt alone"
An unjust clause
XX. THE DRAFT RIOTS BEGIN 248
The mobs
Citizens flee the city
A self-destructive mob
The gentle rain
XXI. "I AM YOUR FRIEND" 258
The giant barricade
A mob at play
Decimation
XXII. TWEED MADE A LAWYER 267
Tweed, Fisk and Gould meet
Tweed changes his plan
The Man of the People

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Publication Information: Book Title: Boss Tweed: The Story of a Grim Generation. Contributors: Denis Tilden Lynch - author. Publisher: Boni and Liveright. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1927. Page Number: viii.
    
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