Editing Tammany Hall (section)

====Mozart Hall====
As a result of the scandal, Fernando Wood left or was expelled from Tammany in 1858 to form a third party, the Mozart Hall Democracy, or '''Mozart Hall''', named after their building at the corner of Broadway and Bleecker Street. Wood ran for mayor in 1859, with the backing of [[James Gordon Bennett Sr.|James Gordon Bennett]]'s ''[[New York Tribune]]'', as the champion of workingclass Irish and German immigrants against the "kid glove, scented, silk stocking, poodle-headed, degenerate aristocracy."<ref name=gotham862 /> The Republicans attempted to combine their efforts with Tammany, but the deal could not be consummated, making it a three-candidate race, which Wood won with 38.3% of the vote. It was Wood's second and last term as mayor, serving until 1862.<ref name=allen5276 /><ref name=gotham862>Burrows & Wallace, p.862</ref><ref name=mozenc />

Mozart Hall was a major player in city politics through the 1860s and was successful in getting additional school wards for German communities. During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], Democrats were divided between "[[War Democrat]]s" &ndash; who wanted victory on the battlefield but objected to what they considered radical Republican legislation and the erosion of civil rights by [[Abraham Lincoln]] &ndash; and "[[Copperhead (politics)|Peace Democrats]]", who favored the restoration of the Union as it existed before the war with slavery in place, or, alternately, peace without reunion (espoused by an extreme faction). [[William M. Tweed]], most of Tammany's politicians, and many prominent businessmen were in the "War" faction, while Mozart Hall was the center of the "Peace" Democrats in New York. While the division between Tammany and Mozart had worked in Wood's favor in 1859, in 1861 it caused Republican [[George Opdyke]] to be elected, over Wood and Tammany's [[C. Godfrey Gunther]], with barely more than a third of the vote.<ref>Burrows & Wallace, p.865</ref><ref name=mozenc />

After the war, Mozart Hall aligned itself more closely with Tammany, and gradually lost influence. It disbanded in 1867.<ref name=mozenc>Bradley, James "Mozart Hall" in {{cite enc-nyc2|page=861}}</ref><ref>{{cite gotham|pages=862,885}}</ref>