FOOTNOTES
[1] The Century Dictionary derives the word from the Dutch honk, post, goal or home. The transition in meaning from “goal” to “office” is easy and natural.
[2] Shepard became Grand Sachem at an early age. He was one of the very few influential men achieving prominence in the society or organization against whose character, public or private, no charges were ever brought.
[3] New York Weekly Herald, November 3, 1849. James Gordon Bennett, editor and owner of this newspaper, “was a recognized member of the Tammany party.” (“Memoirs of James Gordon Bennett and His Times,” 1855, p. 80.) When Bennett first contemplated starting a newspaper, it was to the Young Men’s General Committee that he applied for funds. Though professing to be independent, the Herald nearly always supported Tammany Hall. In 1837-39, however, it had supported Aaron Clark.
[4] The committee advertised the stand it had taken in the Democratic journals of the city on November 5.
[5] The city charter of 1846 had likewise increased the number of elective offices in the municipality.
[6] New York Evening Post (Democratic), April 16, 1850.
[7] New York Weekly Herald, May 4, 1850.
[8] Ibid.
[9] Evening Post, May 2, 1850.