The New York Herald

Gen. Walbridge's Lecture at Tammany

Hall—We published, yesterday, the lecture of

Gen. Walbridge to the sachems and rank and file

of Tammany Hall, on the night of the election. It

is a flat-footed rebuke upon the corruptions which

have crept into the wigwam. It is an honest, vo-

luntary confession that our accusations against old

Tammany were true as preaching. The lesson

will do good—the election will do much more.

When sub-terranean savages, vagabonds, and

stool-pigeons of jail-birds, and cliques of swindling

convicts and filthy knaves, control the metropoli-

tan councils of a great, popular and respectable

party, it is high time to take them in hand. When

our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, overturned the

tables of the money-changers in the temple, and

kicked out the swindling rogues, he did, as in every

thing else, a good thing for the community. And

when the vilest and most vulgar corruptions creep

into the temple of Tammany, and control its nomi-

nations, they should be expelled just as unceremo-

niously. The democrats, in conniving with such

corruptions, have been properly rebuked; and for

the future, it is to be hoped they will cease to pan-

der for the votes of rogues, by abandoning the ge-

lection of disturbers of the peace as candidates for

the administration of the laws. Good will yet come

out of Nazareth.