Curtis characterised the question as one of life or death to a great community weighed down by oppression and crime, and maintained that the convention, if it sought to avoid its duty by the subterfuge already enacted, would show both sympathy and complicity with the oligarchy of terror and infamy.
Curtis warns that failing to act against corruption would equate to complicity with wrongdoing, stressing the urgency of the situation.
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