This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...Peace Resolutions," which were introduced into the Assembly before the inauguration of President Lincoln, and which had the approval of Thurlow Weed, but which were sternly criticised by the ultra party leaders. In 1861 Mr. Robinson was a member of the Union convention, which met at Syracuse, composed ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...Peace Resolutions," which were introduced into the Assembly before the inauguration of President Lincoln, and which had the approval of Thurlow Weed, but which were sternly criticised by the ultra party leaders. In 1861 Mr. Robinson was a member of the Union convention, which met at Syracuse, composed of both Democrats and Republicans--more anxious to preserve the Union than their party lines. At the close of the war Mr. Robinson felt that the work of the Republican party was done, and his original affiliation with the Democracy brought him back into their ranks. In 1871 Governor Hoffman had appointed him a member of the State Constitutional Commission. In that convention he advocated the same principles on which he had acted when Controller. He had been the Democratic nominee for Congress in 1870, but, though defeated, he greatly reduced the former Republican majority. In 1872 he supported the Liberals. In 1875 he was again nominated by the Democrats for State Controller, which he won by a handsome plurality. Few men could have made the political changes which Mr. Robinson did and, at the same time, retain to so large an extent the respect of men of all parties. Tammany has always been noted for the care with which it looked after special classes of voters, not permitting any large body of citizens to pine uselessly for its paternal sympathy. Thus when the upper wards known as the Annexed Districts were added to the metropolis, as the Twenty-third and Twentyfourth Wards, they were at first entrusted to the oversight of Colonel E. T. Wood, but the party did not prosper greatly, and some dissatisfaction was felt. Early in the "eighties " the vote in Wood's district began to grow steadily less, while that of the County...
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