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most finished specimen of it in the form of Tammany
Hall. The part which this Organization has played
there is so thoroughly representative of the action of
the Machine in municipal government that it is neces-
sary to become acquainted with Tammany Hall, and
even to linger for a moment on its history.

Its origins are a mixture of fable and history. It got its name from a legendary chief of an Indian tribe,
Tammany, or Tammanend, a great warrior, a high-
minded ruler, an illustrious sage. When the colonists
shook off the English yoke, their imagination travelled
back to this hero sprung from the very land which
they wished to wrest from the despot beyond the seas,
and they placed themselves under the patronage of
Tammanend's memory. He was canonized there and
then, and the revolutionary army adopted the cult of
St. Tammany, with a saint's day which was held on
the 12th of May, the supposed day of his birth. From
the army this cult passed into civil society, in which
patriots, and foremost among them the "Sons of
Liberty," founded St. Tammany associations, for cul-
tivating the love of country and of the Republic under
the invocation of the legendary hero. In imitation of
the first Tammany Society, founded at Philadelphia in
1772, several others were created, at New York, at
Baltimore, and elsewhere, but that of New York alone
survived.

Origins of
Tammany
Society.

This society was founded in 1789 with the title
of "The Tammany Society or Columbian Order."
Created as a secret society, the members of which were
admitted and initiated with certain rites, Tammany
adopted a singular organization with an Indian nomen-

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Publication Information: Book Title: Democracy and the Party System in the United States. Contributors: M. Ostrogorski - author. Publisher: Macmillan. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1910. Page Number: 73.
    
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