eral Dix for governor was expedient and desirable."[1087]

[Footnote 1086: The ticket was as follows: Governor, John T. Hoffman,
New York; Lieutenant-Governor, Robert H. Pruyn, Albany; Canal
Commissioner, William W. Wright; Prison Inspector, Frank B. Gallagher,
Erie.]

[Footnote 1087: New York _Times_, October 9, 1866.]

But the worst blow to a union of political interests was yet to come.
To afford the people safety in their persons, security in their
property, and honesty in the administration of their government, a
Republican Legislature had placed the affairs of New York City largely
in control of Boards and Commissions. Tammany naturally resented this
invasion of home rule, and after reaffirming the principles of the
Philadelphia movement, the convention declared that "recent
legislation at Albany has usurped a supreme yet fitful control of the
local affairs which counties and municipalities are entitled to
regulate."[1088] To Conservatives nothing could have been more
offensive than such a declaration. "There are thousands of
Republicans," said Raymond, "who long for a restoration of the Union
by the admission to their seats in Congress of loyal men from loyal
States, but who will be quite likely to prefer taking their chances of
securing this result from the action of the Republican party, modified
as it may be by reflection and moderate counsels, rather than seek it
in the way marked out for them by the Albany Democratic
convention."[1089]

[Footnote 1088: New York _Times_, September 13, 1866.]

[Footnote 1089: _Ibid._, September 17.]

Thus the clash began. Conservatives resented the evident intention of
the Democrats to strengthen their party at the expense of the
Philadelphia movement. "We desire to call special attention," said a
Buffalo paper, "to the necessity of carrying out in good faith the
understanding which was entered into at the Philadelphia convention
that all old party antecedents and future action should be merged in
the National Union organisation. It was not contemplated then, or
since, to strengthen the Democratic party by that movement, and any
effort in that direction now cannot fail to be mischievous."[1090]
Before the month of September expired Raymond warned the _World_ that
he was not pledged to the action of the Albany convention. "No
Republican went into it for any such purpose," he said. "No hint of
putting it to any such use was given in the call or in any of its
preliminary