See quot. 1842.

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1820.  (Feb. 7.) We have no Commissioner at our village, (the men fit for it being chiefly Bucktails)…. Education, habit, inclination and principle, all conspire to make me a Bucktail.—B. F. Butler to Jesse Hoyt: ‘Lives of Butler and Hoyt,’ by W. L. Mackenzie, pp. 26–7 (Boston, 1845).

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1821.  

        There’s a barrel of porter at Tammany Hall,
  And the bucktails are swigging it all the night long;
In the time of my boyhood ’twas pleasant to call
  For a seat and cigar, ’mid the jovial throng.
F. Halleck, ‘Fanny,’ lxxv.    

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1821.  

        
Impromptu, by a B—kt—l.
To rule in our Congress a Taylor once sought,—
  He’ll suit us, the * * * * * they all said;
But the Bucktails consider’d, and so the House thought
  A Barber more fit for its head.
Mass. Spy, Dec. 19: from the National Intelligencer.    

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1842.  There was an order of the Tammany Society who wore in their hats as an insignia, on certain occasions, a portion of the tail of the deer…. The party opposed to the administration of Mr. Clinton, were, for a long time, called the Bucktail Party…. I considered the New-York bucktails as having formed an organized opposition to the state administration.—J. D. Hammond, ‘History of Political Parties,’ i. 450–1, 466.

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1845.  Walter [Bowne] was a delegate to the bucktail convention at Herkimer in 1828, which nominated Van Buren as governor.—W. L. Mackenzie, ‘Lives of Butler and Hoyt,’ p. 129.

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