History of the state of New York, political and governmental; . ed as its president William of Franklin, afterward Vice-Presidentof the United States. Few public bodies have shown ahigher average of ability and character. Among thedelegates were William M. Evarts, Horace Greeley,George William Curtis, Waldo Hutchins, Ira Harris,Charles J. Folger, Charles Andrews, Henry C. Mur-phy, Joshua M. Van Cott, Francis Kernan, George , Sanford E. Church, Samuel J. Tilden,Amasa J. Parker, and Theodore W. Dwight. The mostimportant business of the convention was the reform ofthe judiciar
History of the state of New York, political and governmental; . ed as its president William of Franklin, afterward Vice-Presidentof the United States. Few public bodies have shown ahigher average of ability and character. Among thedelegates were William M. Evarts, Horace Greeley,George William Curtis, Waldo Hutchins, Ira Harris,Charles J. Folger, Charles Andrews, Henry C. Mur-phy, Joshua M. Van Cott, Francis Kernan, George , Sanford E. Church, Samuel J. Tilden,Amasa J. Parker, and Theodore W. Dwight. The mostimportant business of the convention was the reform ofthe judiciary system, which had proved utterlyinadequate to the growing business of the State. Thecanal administration and the evident waste and corrup-tion in the letting of contracts for repairs, called forinvestigation. The convention faced a popular convic-tion that bribery was rampant in the Legislature, andunder existing law could not be punished. Then it hadto deal with negro suffrage, a question on which manyRepublicans were inclined to take less radical views 72. George William Curtis George William Curtis, editor and orator; born, Providence,R. I., February 24, 1824; joined the Brook Farm colony of whichNathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller and other distinguishedAmerican thinkers of their time were connected in 1842; trav-eled and studied abroad, 1846-1850; joined staff of the NewYork Tribune, 1857; delegate to the republican national con-ventions of 1860 and 1864; delegate at large lo the constitu-tional convention of 1867; ajipointed in 1S71 by President Grantto a committee which should draw up a plan of civil servicereform; bolted the Blaine ticket and came out for GroverCleveland in 1884; died at Staten Island, August 31, 1892.
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