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Bucktails.

In the politics of the State of New York the Tammany Society (q. v.) held a conspicuous place as early as during the War of 1812-15. The Republican, or Democratic, party had been divided into two great factions, known as Madisonians and Clintonians, James Madison and De Witt Clinton being rival candidates for the office of President of the United States. Most of the Federalists voted for Clinton. The Tammany Society adhered to Madison. In the election of 1816 a portion of the members of the Tammany Society wore an emblem in their caps — a deer's tail-and they were called “Bucktails.” This soon became the title of the Madisonians; and in 1816, when Clinton was elected governor of New York, the opposing parties in the State were known as “Bucktails” and “Clintonians.” To one or the other of these parties portions of the disintegrated Republican, or Democratic, party became attached. Afterwards the Bucktail party was styled by its antagonists the Albany regency (q. v.).

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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