[8] _Journal of the Senate_, 1826, Vol. 6, Appendix B. A considerable part of the money and stock promised the members of the Legislature for their votes was withheld owing to the expected investigation. [9] _Ibid._ [10] _Ibid._ [11] _Senate Documents_, 1834, No. 47, and _Ibid._, No. 94. Walter Bowne was the bank’s president. [12] _Ibid._, No. 94. [13] _Ibid._, No. 47. [14] _Journal of the Senate_, 1833, p. 396. [15] _Documents of the Senate_, 1834, No. 108. [16] Lee was the last Mayor elected by the Common Council (1833-34). [17] Lawrence had a curious habit of strolling the streets carrying his spectacles in his hand behind his back, and ogling all the pretty girls he met, a habit which was broken later when one winsome lass tangled him in a plot, much to his financial and mental distress. [18] The next day the Equal Rights men were dubbed “Locofocos,” a name afterward applied by the Whigs to the entire Democratic party. [19] _Documents of the Board of Aldermen_, 1836, Nos. 65 and 100. [20] _Ibid._, 1837, No. 48. [21] _Ibid._, 1837, No. 32. [22] _Documents of the Senate_, 1836, Vol. II, No. 94. [23] A short time before, at an Anti-Monopolist meeting, Chairman Job Haskell had represented that the Tammany Society--the secret body, responsible to no one and enforcing its demands through the Tammany Hall political organization--was to blame for the political corruption. Resolutions were then passed setting forth that whereas the self-constituted, self-perpetuating Tammany Society had assumed a dictatorial attitude and by usages made by itself endeavored to rule the people as with a rod of iron; and, as they (the Equal Rights men) believed the people were capable of managing their own affairs without the aid of said inquisitorial society, “that we deem the Tammany Society an excrescence upon the body politic and dangerous to its rights and liberties.” [24] _Proceedings of the Board of Aldermen_, Vol XI, p. 16. [25] These resolutions were published officially in the New York _Evening Post_, June 8, 1836. [26] Cornelius W. Lawrence, the Tammany Mayor, became the bank’s first president. [27] _Documents of the Board of Aldermen_, 1837, No. 48. [28] Excepting some instances of private charity by Tammany leaders. [29] _Documents of the Board of Aldermen_, 1836, No. 80. [30] _Documents of the Board of Aldermen_, 1839, No. 29. [31] _Ibid._ [32] _Documents of the Assembly_, 1837, Nos. 198 and 327. CHAPTER XIII TAMMANY “PURIFIED” 1837-1838 One of the important changes in the composition of Tammany Hall came in 1837. The United States Bank dependents, lobbyists and supporters had left the Wigwam, as has been noted, in 1832, but the State Bank men, well satisfied with the destruction of the great rival corporation, had remained. Finding the organization no longer subservient to them they, in turn, quit Tammany during Van Buren’s administration.