Wood (I.) convinced the new Collector of the Port, Augustus Schell (r.), that he needed his protection. Photograph of Wood by Brady and engraving of Schell by J. C. Buttre. the new-york historical society. dates and to establish the predominance of his faction at Tammany Hall.7 The effect of this victory on the General Committee was soon evident. The triumphant sachems invited Wood and Savage to send forty- four delegates apiece, two from each ward, to form a new General Committee. The sachems would provide twenty-two additional members including the chairman, Edward Cooper (the son of Peter Cooper). The arrangement pleased Savage whose true strength did 7 From Volume III, Tammany Scrapbooks, 1857-68, 3 vols, in Local History Room, New York Public Library (hereafter cited as NYPL); Times, April 22, 1857; Gustavus Myers, The History of Tammany HaU (New York: 1917), 184. A trenchant commentary on the election appeared in the Tribune, April 21, 1857: "Our City has been for some days agitated by a struggle .. . for power, and for nothing else.... It has been the New- York 'Hotel Clique'. . . against another clique. . . . The success of one or the other will make not the smallest difference to any one outside of the small circle of recipients of Federal patronage!'