Curtis, referring to the refusal of the credentials' committee, declared that a voice from the Democratic masses of New York, seeking relief from a gang of thieves, was stronger, higher, and more sublime than mere questions of technicality.
Curtis emphasizes the moral imperative of the Democratic masses to reject corruption, framing it as a matter of principle over technicalities.
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This is the spirit in which I have determined for myself to come up to this great question, and to pass through it.
And is it not needed when its taking helps us and hurts our enemy?
Indeed, he went a step farther in the way of irreconciliation, preferring Hoffman and Tammany, he said, to "the reckless, red-radicalism which rules the present Congress....
It cared nothing for the Democratic party except as it contributed to its selfish ends.
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