As to the Whig party, it received no great attention from us.

At that time its chances of getting control of this State or of the United States were remote.

Our biggest fight was against the 'usages of the party' as in vogue in the so-called regular Democracy embodied in the Tammany Hall party.

This organization undertook to absorb us when we had grown too powerful to be ignored.

They nominated a legislative ticket made up half of their men and half of ours.