Sublime

good democrat.” Jefferson

To fight for mental and moral changes after policy is changed means fighting alongside growing benefits and

From their seats in the spectator galleries high up over the Assembly Chamber, the reformers could see him roaming the narrow aisles between the legislators’ desks, pleading, cajoling, threatening, bargaining, dealing, trading votes—using every trick he had learned in his years of working for Tammany.

Brewer was a politician: he had known the best way to make his appeal to me.