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.THE ·LIVES 

OF 

HON. HORATIO SEYMOUR 


.GEN. FRANCIS P. BLAIR, JR., 


DEMOCR.A.TIO CA.i.~IDATES FOR PRESIDENT A...~D VICE-PRESIDENT 
OF THE UNITED STATES. 


CONTAINING A SUMMARY OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC OONJ$~T~ON, : 

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LIFE OF HORATIO SEY~iOUR. 


Horatio Seymour was born in Pompey, Onondago county, New York, in the 

latter part of the year 1811, and is consequently about fifty-seven years of age. 

Richard Seymour, the ancestor of the subject of our biography, was one of 

the original settlers of Hartford, Connecticut, and was a prominent citizen of 

that sterling Democratic State during its early and eventful history. l\Iajor 

Moses Seymour, the fourth lineal descendant, made an honorable record during 

the Revolutionary Wa~ h!s:ua~r~~:fafng of that lofty and self-sacrificing 

character which disting;uisiled ~the otd · Continentals during those memorable 

years which "tried m~~~s ~ou1~:'...Af!er~th.e-c~c!"~:1sion of the war, Major Sey


mour represent~ µt9l'!~Jd it1 -~e Legfolnt:ik~-6f· -Connecticut for a number of 

years, to the emi:ucrit satisfaction of his constituents, and was one of those sub


stantial, high-minded legislators who won the respect alike of both parties, and 
· contributed so much to the honor of our Republic during its early days. 

:Major Seymour had five sons, one of whom, Henry, the father of Horatio, 

was born in 1780. He removed to Utica, New York, from which place he 

was elected to the State Legislature, serving with more signal ability,· if 

possible, than his father. For many years he was Canal Commissioner, and 

was among the most prominent public men of the Empire State. 

A brother of Henry Seymour was a United States Senator from Vermont 

for twelve years. The son of another brother was also Representative in Con


gress from the LitchfieJ.d district of Connecticut, while the maternal grandfather 

of Horatio Seymour, Colonel Forman, served through the Revolutio:q.ary war 

in the New Jersey line. · . 

It will thus be seen that the Seymour family has ever been characterized by · 

ability, patriotism and worth of a remarkable order, which, instead of gradu


ally dying out in the descendants, has increased rather, until at the present day 

it has lifted one of the number to be a candidate for the highest office in the 

gift of the American people. 

During th~ long and honorable career of Henry Seymour, he acquired large 

estates, and became one of the wealthiest men in central New York. This 


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wealth was applied to the best of uses, every means at his command being devoted 
to giving his children an education. 

Horatio Seymour received every advantage in early youth, being sent to the 
best educational institutions in the State. Possessing a mind of the first order, 
he thus aq uired a profound eelucation, and became one of the most accomplfahed 
scholars of his day. 

His tastes and natural inclinations leading him to the study of law, he pur


. sued it with his customary vigor and success, and before he was twenty-one 
years of age, was admitted to the bar, and at once began the practice of his 
profession in the city of Utica. 

Naturally courteous and affable to all, with a keen, far-seeing mind, unflinchingly 
devoted to the interests of his clients, upright and honorable in all his dealings 
·with men, and with a private character that was above reproach, Horatio 
Seymour was popular and successful from the first. . 

An increasing and lucrative practice rewarded his labors, and he was on the 
high road to success, when his whole plan of life was changed for the time by 
the sad bereavement that came upon him in the death of his father. 

The responsibilities of the settlement of the immense estate devolved upon 
the young lawyer, and, in the conscientious discharge of this important trust, 
he found so much time and labor necessary that he was obliged, much against 
his will, to give up the practice of hk."'pf~(~si<>n:'! ~ ~ · 

About the same time, John R. Bl~k"ei);t:h~r;tber 0£ his wife, died, and 
these responsibilities and fa~~ 'Xero: ~.i:eat!yyicr~~' so that many of the 
best years of his life were tll~b'ccitp@~ Bti!,. the ~~fi.lm~ ~nd peculiar character 
of this work no doubt admirably fitted-him to ~gtapple"vith the momentous 
and intricate questions which he was called to solve in after life. 

The ancestors of Mr. Seymour were noted for their adherence to the Democratic 
party, so that, in one sense, it may be said that he inherited his political 
predilections. 

Up to this period of which we speak, he had taken no active part in politics; 
but his ability and popularity soon designated him as the proper one to receive 
the honors of his party. 

In the autumn of 18-U, when less than thirty years of age, he was requested 
to allow the use of his name as the Democratic candidate for member of Assembly. 
I~ deference to the wishes of his fellow-citizeps, he gave his consent, 
and was accordingly nominated. 

The canvass was a vigorous one, both parties working "ith a will. The 

· '"nigs at that time were strongly in the ascendancy in Utica, and with any 
other candidate, there would have been a poor prospect of success for the . 
Democratic candidate. 

Despite all this opposition, Seymour was elected by a triumphant. majority. 
He went to the State Legislature to find himself associated with such minds as 
John A.. Dix, D.R. F. Jones, Michael Hoffman, Lemuel Stetson, George R. 
Davis and Calvin T. Hurburd. 


LIFE OF SE"TIIOUR. 

In the Legislature, the Democrats were largely in the ascendancy,'some of 
the ablest minds in the country being represented there, as the list above given 
will show. 

It was at this session that l\lichael Hoffman's celebrated bill, relating to the 
State finances, was under consideration. It enlisted the ·warmest sympathies 
of Seymour, who devoted himself heart and soul to advocating its passage. 
His marked ability attracted the notice of thousands to whoJn hitherto he had 
been a stranger, and he won a high reputa.tion for forensic and oratorical pmver. 

The measures which he advocated . were passed by the Legislature, and the 
wisdom of his course 'vas established by the fact that the depreciated credit of 
his State was completely restored thereby. 

The Whigs displayed the most bitter and untiring opposition to l\Ir. Seymour; 
but, in the face of their determined efforts, he was elected l\Iayor of the 
city of Utica in 1842. 

In the autumn of 1843, he was again elected a member of the lower House 
of the Legislature, attracting the admiration, as before, of enemies as well as 
friends, by his brilliant eloquence and remarkable ability. He was never forgetful 
of the interests of his clie:pts, or unmindful of the high trust which they 
had imposed upon him. 

He served in the same position during the two succeeding years. Thesession 
of 1844 'vas an exciting one. Strong feeling, in many roses amounting to 
acrimonious bitterness, manifested itself, chiefly growing out of an expected 
opposition to the administration of Governor Bouck. 

The leaders in the exciting debates were :Messrs. Seymour and Hoffman, 
l\Ir. Hoffman being the ~cknowledged and recognized leader of the Legislature 
in 1842, and a formidable antagonist in debate. Yet, despite the prestige attaching 
to his name, and his unquestioned power, he met in Seymour a foeman 
worthy of his steel, and who so successfully combated him that he won the 
commendations alike of friends and foes. 

The session of 1845, however, opened with a far different state of feeling. 
James K. Polk had assumed the Presidential chair, and the feeling of the Legislature 
was principally based upon the success with which he had met. 

At the beginning of the session, the admirers of Seymour put his name into 
the contest for the Speakership. The other party made the most strenuous opposition, 
and a factional fight was aroused; but, in the face of it.all, he was 
triumphantly elected. 

It was at this session that Daniel S. Dickinson ·was elected to the United 

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States Senate. Mr. Seymour took an active part in the election, and contributed 
not a little to his success by the same brilliancy of manner, and power and 
polish of debate, which had always characterized him. 

'Vith the close of this session ended the legislative rareer of Horatio Seymour. 
Returning to Utica, he resumed the practice of law, in which his success was 
a natural sequen~e to the promising beginning he had made in his youth. 


LIFE OF SEYMOUR. 

In the year 1850, the Legislature of New York provided for the enlargement 
and improvement of the Erie Canal, appropriating the revenue of the 
State in contravention of the provisions of the Constitution. This once more 
brought l\fr. Seymour before the public, he opposing the effort to override the 
llrovisions of a Constitution so recently adopted, with heart and soul. So thoroughly 
and publicly did he become identified with this movement, that he was 
placed in nomination for Governor of the State, in opposition to 'Vashington 
Hunt. 

All know the power of moneyed corporators, especially those of such magni


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tude as held control of the Erie Canal. "The result was that Seymour received 
214,352 votes and Hunt 214,614, the former being defeated by 262, a singularly 
close contest in such an immense vote. 

In 1852, l\Ir. Seymour was again placed in nomination for the Governorship 
by the Democratic party. His opponents were 'Vashington Hunt (Whig,) and 
:Minthorne Tompkins (Free Soil) . 


The result was as follows: Seymour 264,121, Hunt 239,736~ Tompkins 
19,299. . 


Seymour was thus elected over two competitors, as the chief executive 
officer of the State. His administration was characterized by prudence, 
tact, economy and good judgment. The act which. created the greatest 
sensation during his occupation of office, was his veto of the famous Maine 
law.· 

The soundness of his views as to the power of the Legislature to pass summary 
laws, was subsequently fully established by a formal decision of the Court 
of Appeals. 
.. In 1854, four candidates for gubernatorial honors a1lpeared in the fieldHoratio 
Seymour, regular Democrat; G. C. Bronson, Hard Shell Democrat; 
l\Iyron H. Clark, Republican; and Daniel Ullman, Know-Nothing. 

The following was the result of the election: Seymour, 156,495; Clark, ' 
156,804; Ullman, 122,282; Bronson, 33,850. Nearly half a million votes 
were thus cast, the Republican candidate being elected by 309 majority. 

At the conclusion of this contest, Seymour again returned to the practice of 
his profession in Utica, still, however, taking an active part in politics, and 
doing all in his power toward the success of his party. He acquired great 
popularity as a speaker, and while a canvass was pending he was unceasing in 
his labor. · 

He was always present at National and State Conventions, and was invariably . 
given a leading position in the councils of the same. 

At the National Democratic Convention at Charleston, in 1860, when the 
rontest became more and more bitter, and the political sky grew darker and 
darker, he was proposed as a compromise candidate between Douglas and 

·Breckinridge, but, in the increasing heat and excitement of the Convention, the 
proposal amounted to nothing. 
In 1862, Seymour was for the fourth time placed in nomination for Governor .. 


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of his native State by the Democrats, against General "'\Vadsworth, the Republican 
nominee. 
This was the result of the election: 

Se:yrnour ............................ : ..............306,640 
'Vadsworth .....•..................................205,807 


l\Ir. Seymour was thus elected Governor a second time by a majority of over 

ten thousand. 

This administmtion, all our readers will remember, was during the darkest 

hours of the late war. A controversy arose between him and the General Gov


ernment regarding the draft list, which was finally settled by its revision. 

In the heat of a Presidential canvass, there is danger of injustice being done 

upon both si2es, by the partisans of the respective candidates; and, as an act of 

justice to l\L-. Seymour, we append the following from tl!e Philadelphia Age 

of July 10. It is regarding an article which had just appeared in the Phila


delphia Press : • 

SEYMffUR AXD GETTYSBURG. 
The P1ess is prompt in the work of defamation, but lacks the "long memory" with 
which, 3ccording to the proverb, it ought to be provided. Herc is a specimen of its 
efforts yesterday: 
"Pa:riots will remember that when Judge "Woodward was running for the Governorship 
o:' our State, it was openly asserted by the Democracy that, should he be elected, 
no U1i0Ii troops should pass to the front through .New York or Pennsylvania; that 
Seyrrour and 'Voodward would throttle the government and end the war." 
N~t the Democracy, but the knaves who libeled them spoke thus; and in doing so, 
gav~ the best help they could to the rebellion, in flattering it with false hopes of.North


ci:r sympathy. It was by deeds, not words, that the Democracy repelled that lie. 
Wnen the Press uttered it, in 1863, the streets of our city were glistening with the bay01ets 
ofregiments sent to the front to defend Pennsylvania, sent from New Jersey and 
l"ew York-by Horatio Seymour, and by Joel Parker, the Democratic Governors of 
:hose States. Governor Curtin was in a condition of hopeless inefficiency. It was his 
party in this city who were slow to hear his call for troops. George 1V. Woodward 
seconded it manfully, ,yhen many a blatant Radical vrns dumb with terror. The cau.
didate of the Democracy, with all his sons in the field, Judge Woodward, issued this 
stirring appeal, in a letter addressed to the Chairman of the Democratic State Central 
Committee, and published throughout the State : "There ought to be such an instant 
uprising ofyoung men in response to this call (Governor Curtin's, of July 26,) as shall 
be sufficient to assure the public safety, and to teach the world that no hostile foot can 
with impunity tread the soil of Pennsylvania (June 2!). 1863.)" Few can have forgotten 
the condition of things in this city, from which the opportune victory of Gettysburg 
relieved it. It cannot be better portrayed than by citing the public speech made ·at 
that crisis by Governor Curtin, from the Continental Hotel, on the 1stday of July, 1863: 
"If General ::\leade's anny is defeated, which God forbid, I need not say to intelligent 
Pennsylvanians what is next to occur. )lilitary men have concurred in the opinion, 
and properly, that the defence of Pennsylvania from invasion-certainly of the citywill 
be found upon the banks of the Susquehanna; and certainly it is plea:mnt for me to 
announce that the call made upon the people of Pennsylmnia has been responded to 
all through the State in a manner much beyond all official anticipation, and now from 
her mountains and valleys, from the homes and public works, our loyal and devoted 
Pennsylvanians arc on their way to the place of rendezvous, and will soon he in arms to 


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protect you on the banks of her great river. I ask for i,800 men from this city. How 
soon can I cret them? Do not measure them by days, let it be hours. * * * nre 
asked for hdp from New Ym·k-it has come. \Ve asked for help from New Jersey-it 
has come. New England will respond; but first let us show that we are true to our 
honor and protect ourselves."-Ledge1·, July 2, 18G3. 

Here is a part of the record of Horatio Seymour, m the facts of history, from the lips 
of the Republican Governor: "1-i:re asked for help from 1Vew York, and it has come." \Ve 
thank the Press for uttering a calumny which we can nail to the counter with the strong, 
sure blows of truth. The exuberant expressions of gratitude which )fr. Lincoln sent 
to GoYernor Seymour for his energy and patriotism, we reserve for another time. \Ve 
have given the Radicals ·to-day some of the facts of history-let them try to rail them 
off the record. · 

In July, 1863, the terrible draft riots broke out in the city ?f New York. 
Seymour ,at that time was at Albany, and being telegraphed fot, immediately 
came to the city. .He addressed the rioters in a fervent speec~, which was 
criticised by his enemies because he applied the title of "friends" "?them. 

It surely is trifling and imprudent to object to this expression~ when the 

special object of the Governor was to plead with and convince the e~cited and 

ignorant populace of the terrible wrongs which they were committing\ 

In 1864, Seymour was again nominated against Reuben E. Fenton for the 

Governorship, and was defeated by him. ', . 

At the National Democratic Convention, held in Chicago during th~ same 

year, he was chosen its President, and discharged the duties and respomibili


ties of that important position in a most admirable manner. 

Since that time, as before, he has taken an active part in politics, delivtring 

many powerful speeches in different parts of the country, and gaining a l-osi


sition which is acknowledged by all as the very foremost in the Democra.tic 

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During the bitter partisanship engendered by the strife for office, the mO;t 

heated opponents never presume to utter a word against the private worth an~ 

moral character of Gove:rnor Seymour. 

From his youth he has been a consistent and energetic member of the Pro


testant Episcopal Church, and takes a deep interest in the Sunday School and 

in educational matters, and labors ~ealously at all times to promote and ad


vance these sacred interests. · 

One of the ablest journals of the country thus refers to the chosen standard


bearer of the Democratic party during the pending Presidential campaign : 

In the first place, then, Horatio Seymour is, beyond all question or contest, the first 
statesman in the Democratic party-the one who most fully represents its principles, 
who has the most consummate ability to expound them with luminous clearness, whose 
. mind is t?e ~roadest, whose culture is the most thorough, whose dignity of character 
mid b~armg is best fitted to adorn a great station, and to magnify even the high office 
for wh1~hhe. has been nominateu. He possesses, in a pre-eminent degree, every personal 
qualification mid accomplishment which befit the Chief l\facristrate of a QTeat nation.

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n the next place, ~Ir. Seymour has a strong grasp of the questions which relate to 
the re:uscitation of the shattered prosperity of the country, and the maintenance of the 
financial honor of the country-that is to say, of the questions which will chiefly occupy 


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attention during the next Presidential term. On these questions he has very distinct 
and very decided opinions-opinions not caught up of a sudden to serve an electioneering 
turn, but deliberately formed after a large survey of the subject. Those opinions 
have been often proclaimed and are well known; they are such opinions ns compel the 
assent and extort the approval of honest and enlightened political opponents. His 
election would establish confidence, both at home and abroad, in the financial honor of 
the country, and settle that confidence on the firmest foundation. His recent noble and 
high-toned speech in the Cooper Institute is the only document which his supporters 
will need to circulate among the business classes to convince them that their interests 
and those of the laboring masses can be hannonized, and the national honor maintained, 
only by his election. Ente1·taining such views, llis influei1ce in that class of questions 
will be potential eve'n with the Republican Senate. By nominating him, the 
Democratic party has opened the way to a sound currency, to the revival of industry, 
to the reduction of taxat10n, to a great strengthening of the public credit, to a change 
-in the form of the national debt by new loans at a greatly reduced interest, and taxable 

at the same rate as other descriptions of property. 

Again: l\Ir. Seymour has always been so consistent and thorough a Democrat, and 
his popularity and influence in the party are so unbounded, that he alone possesses the 
moral weight requisite for adapting the policy of the party to the altered circumstances 
of the country. No secondary statesman could act with the authority and independence 
which are needed to engineer the Government in the face of a hostile Senate and in 
the new condition of things which results from the overthrow of the regular State Governments 
ofthe South. The ship of State is to be piloted through difficult and obstructed 
channels, and it will need no small degree of political courage to make such 
concessioµs as may be necessary for securing co-operation on the part of the Senate, 
and of the defacto State Governments of the South, in an attempt to re-establish the 
supremacy of the Constitution. It is precisely in this relation that Mr. Seymour will 
be a far stronger President than Chief-Justice Chase could have been. The ChiefJustice 
would have been regarded by the Senate as a renegade, and distrusted by the 
Democratic party as a Radical. He would not have dare·d to make necessary conces-sions 
lest the party that elected him should think him false to its principles. Governor 
Seymour is too staunch and reliable a Democrat for his measures ever to be called in 
question by his own supporters. Whatever he yields the Senate will regard as of grace, 
and he will receive the full indorsement of the Democratic party, because no member 
of it will suspect him of lurking partialities for any part of the Radical policy. He is 
the only statesman of the Democratic party who would not have lost influence by nd· 
vocating the nomination of Judge Chase for the Presidency. He can do all whichJudge 

Chase could have done, and can do it with a moral authority and a fulness of Democratic 
support which Mr. Chase could never have commanded. 1Vhatever he may concede 
will be accepted as a concession to necessity, and not scouted as the indulgence 
of a partiality for negro suffrage or for any ofthe Radical heresies . 

.Another prominent Democratic paper thus refers to l\Ir. Seymour : 

It is with unbounded enthusiasm that the Democracy receive the nomination of 
Horatio Seymour. At any time during the Convention, he could have stood first on 
the ballot; but a strong disinclination to public office led him to prefer the claims of 
others to his own. His unanin1ous selection as Chairman of the Convention was significant 
of the general preference which has at last forced upon him the nomination for 
the Presidency. The protracted balloting caused by the withholding of his name 
proved that it alone could command unanimous assent. The Convention, at bst, literally 
carried their candidate by storm. This is, indeed, a case where the office seeks 
the man, and not the man the office. 


LIFE OF SEYMOUR. 

It is to his great abilities, to liis pure and lofty character, that Horatio Seymour owes' • 
this peculiar and unprecedented honor. He has not been allowed to deny himself to 
the service of his country, at this juncture, because in him is recognized the special 
ability now demanded for her service. He is the statesman, the thinker, the administrator 
to whose ripe wisdom and experience the American people can safely trust the 
helm of state, in all the difficult questiQns that attend our future as a nation. Problems 
of finance and of government are those in which he is best fitted to guide to safe and 
just solutions. The most recent publication of his views on the urgent questions of the 
day, was his great speech in which he exhibited the resources of our government lav· 
ished in expenditures, one-third of which only was appropriated to meet the claims of 
the public creditors. Ile exl1ibited with masterly skill the effect of a practicable retrenchment 
upon the public credit, rapidly approximating the obligations of the government 
to their par value, and affording a currency acceptable alike to all. 

Mr. Seymour's disinclination to take office has been always consistent and sincere. 
Every political honor in the gift of the Democracy of his State has always been at his 
command.. He has, however, waived, instead of using the advantage of his popularity. 
On the urgent call of the people of New York, he has twice held the office of Governor, 
and in his administration of the affairs and resources of that Commonwealth, lias established 
his great reputation for ability. The people now claim its exercise in a still 
wider sphere. As a great oracle of the Democratic party, Horatio Seymour is so universally 
known to all in its ranks, that to-day we do not dwell further upon his familiar 
history. 


LIFE OF FRANCIS P. BLAIR, JR. 


It is a noteworthy fact that both the nominees of the Democratic party 
belong to families which have respectively produced men of remarkable ability. 

General Grant is the only member of his family as far back as the descent 
can be traced, that rises above mediocrity. The same may be said of Speaker 
Colfax. 

But the Seymours have been men of acknowledged power and ability for 
many generations. The grandfather of Horatio Seymour was a l\Iajor in the 
Revolutionary 'Var, and a member of the Connecticut Legislature for a series 
of years; the father was a member of the New York Legislature, while the 
grandfather on the paternal side was a Colonel during the Revolution. 

Two other members of the family were members of the United States Congress, 
so that it seems as if the ability, as well as the political predilections of 
Governor Seymour, came to him by the laws of hereditary descent. 

The Blair family is no less a remarkable one. Francis P. Blair, Sr., now 
resides at Silver Springs, l\Iaryland, on his magnificent estate, honored in his· 
old age for his past services to his country. W11ile Grant was prosecuting his last 
campaign against Richmond, it will be remembered that the Confederates made 
a demonstration against Washington, during which they paid a visit to l\Ir. 
Blair's residence, and, although it was not permanently injured, yet they left 
unmistakable evidence of their call. 

During General Jackson's administration, the elder Blair was editor of the 
Washington Globe, and was one of the staunchest and ablest supporters of Old 
Hickory. 

The brother of the subject of our sketch, l\Iontgomery Blair, was a member 
of President Lincoln's Cabinet. 

Francis Preston Blair, Jr., was born in the quaint old town of Lexington, 
Kentucky, February l9tl1, 1821, and is therefore in his forty-eighth year at the 
present time. 

Like his illustrious associate on the Democratic ticket, he received every 
educational advantage in his youth, and graduated with high honors at Princeton 
College, New Jersey, when but nineteen years of age. 



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LIFE OF BLAIR. 

Removing to St. Louis, Missouri, he began the study of law, in which he 
made rapid progress. His se,yere application to study considerably impaired 
his health, and in 18-15, he made a journey to the Rocky ::Mountains with a 
party of hunters and trappers. The rugged and adventurous life thus forced 
upon him, built up his constitution, and fully restored his debilitated healt~. 

On the breaking out of the l\Iexican 'Var, he joined the force under Kearney 

· 
and the heroic Donephan, in New l\Iexico, and served in the capacity of a private 
soldier until 1847, when he returned.to St. Louis and resumed the practice 
of his profession. 

He soon became prominent and popular, and .was known as "Young Frank 
Blair." He was the political associate of Thomas Benton, and was the first 
man in Missouri to· denounce the institution of slavery in that State. 

In 1848, like his father, he gave his support to the Free Soil Party, and in 
a powerful speech delivered at the Court House in St. Louis, he took the strongest 
ground against the extension of slavery into the territories of the nation. 

In 1852, he was elected from St. Louis county, Missouri, to the State Legislature 
as an avowed Free Soiler, and was re-elected in 1854, although Thomas 

H. Benton, the Congressional candidate of the Free Boilers, was defeated. 
In 1856, Mr. Kennett, who had vanquished Benton, ran against Blair for 
Congress in the St. Louis district. The contest was warm and vigorous, but 
Blair was triumphantly elected and took his seat among the counsellors of the 

nation. 
He made a great sensation in the following year by delivering an elaborate 
and carefully prepared speech in the House of Representatives, in favor of colonizing 
the entire black population of the United States in Central America. 
This speech demonstrated a singular power of argument, and a fearless combative 
energy in the advancement of hi~ own ideas, which has doubtless greatly 
contributed to his renown in the West. 
l\Ir. Blair was for a time editor of the Missouri Republican, and demonsh-ated 
that his ability as a writer was no ways inferior to his power as a public 
speaker and debater. · · 
He was re-elected as a Republican to Congress in 1858 and in 1860, by a 
constantly increasing majority. 
During these years, he waged a sleepless war against the "peculiar institutions," 
and during the memorable difficulties in .Kansas, he was an unflinching 
c1mmpion of free soil doctrines. 
In 1860, Mr. Blair made a speech in Brooklyn in favor of th£ election of 
Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency, and, in 1861, spoke at the l\Ietropolitan . 
Hotel, in New York, advocating a vigorous prosecution of the war. 
At the beginning of the rebellion in 1861, he was among the very first to 

or~~mize troops for the defence of St. Louis and l\Iissouri, and in conjunction 
with Captain, aftern~anls General Lyon, he raised the forces known as the Mis• : 
8?uri !lome Guarcls, one ofthe most important Union organizations at that <lark 

time m the history of the State. 
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LIFE OF BLAIR. 

It is stated, and we .believe is true, that l\Ir. Blair was the first volunteer in 
the State of l\Iissouri. . The First Regiment of that State was raised by him, 
and he acted as its Colonel, although he held n.o commission authorizing him 
to do so at the time. He assisted in the capture of Camp Jackson, St. Louis, 
on l\Iay 10, 1861, which was one of the first and severest blows struck at the 
rebellion during its early days. 

A difficulty arose between him and General Fremont, commanding the department 
of l\Iissouri, and he was unjustly placed under arrest by that officer. 
This arbitrary measure caused great excitement in St. Louis, the journals of 
the city taking an earnest part in the discussion. · 

By order of President Lincoln, Colonel Blair "·as released from arrest in 
September, 1861. He 'vas again arrested by General Fremont, but, after a 
bitter newspaper discussion by both parties, he was once more released. 

Previous to this, Colonel . Blair had taken an active part in the battle of 
Booneville, under General Lyon, on the 17th of June, 1861, during which 
contest he commanded his regiment. 

His regiment was also prominently engaged in the battle of \Yilson's Creek, 
August 10, where General Lyon was slain, but as he was obliged to take a seat 
in the special session of Congress, he was not present at the battle. 

During the sessions of 1861-2, Colonel Blair was chairman of the Committee 
on l\Iilitary Affairs, and as such, did invaluable service to the country. 

Upon the close of the session, he returned to :Missouri and commenced 
the organization of a regiment of artillery, and afterwards, at the request 
of the Secretary of 'Var, he raised a brigade of infantry, of which he was 
placed in command, and commissioned a Brigadier General in A.ugust,. 
1862. 

He rapidly. rose to distinction as a brave and skilful soldier, and, before he 
was commissioned a Brigadier (j-eneral, he commanded a division in Sherman's 
attack on Vicksburg in l\Iay, 1862. The brigades of Ewing, Smith and Kilby 
Smith composed his division. 

Frank Blair had the honor of leading the attack in person, fiye batteries 
concentrating their guns in the rebel position. 
. The attack was made furiously, but the assailants suffered a bloody repulse . 
.As the head of the column rushed over the parapet, a murderous fire of musketry 
swept away all its leading files. The rear of the column attempted to dash on 
but were forced back, and the attack, as already stated, resulted disastrously to 
the Union forces. 

Upon being commissioned Brigadier General, Blair's brigade was attached to 
the Fourth Division of the Thirteenth Army Corps, but afterwards, upon a 
reconstruction of General Grant's forces, was assigned to the Fifteenth Corps, 
then commanded by General \Y. T. Sherman. While under the command of 
that distinguished officer, General Blair had charge of the first brigade of General 
Steele's division at the attack upon the defences in the rear of Vicksburg, 
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During the assaults upon these works, General Blair greatly distinguished 
himself for his fearless bravery, being the very last to leave the heights, although 
the main army had been disastrously repulsed. · 

General Blair commanded his brigade in General Sherman's wing of l\Ic 
Clernand's army, during the assault upon and capture of Fort Hindman, on 
the .Arkansas river, on the 10th and 11th of January, 1863. For the gallantry 
and skill displayed at these severely contested battles, he was promoted 
to. a l\Iajor GeneralslJip of volunteers, with a commission dating from N ovember 
29, 1862. . · 

During the month of .April, 1863, Major General Blair was placed in command 
of a division of Sherman's corps. .At the head of this division, he took 
an important part in the siege of Vicksburg. They participated in the capture, 
d~ing the heaviest fighting in Sherman's command. 

It was on this occasion that General Grant pronounced Francis P. Blair the . 

best volunteer general in the United States army. 

General Blair fully justified the high encomium of the General of the .Armies. 

He bore a conspicuously honorable part in the principal subsequent battles of ; 

the 'Vest. His division gained great glory in the attack on and capture of 

Jackson, Mississippi, on the 2d of October, 1863, General Sherman having ap


pointed him to the command of the corps formerly commanded by himself. _In 

this position, new lustre was added to his name, and his career was a full con


firmation of the remarkable foresight of General Grant, who had pron.ounced · 

such an emphatic and favorable opinion upon his military ability. 

In General Sherman's celebrated "March to the Sea" from .Atlanta, General 

Blair commanded the Seventeenth .Army Corps, which was the finest corps in 

the whole army. He crrn~sed the Ogeechee near Barton, and captured the first 

prisoners. His divisions laid pontoons across the river, and the two wings 

were thus consolidated before Savannah. 

From Savannah, the Fourteenth Corps was transported by water to Poco


taligo, whence it fhreatened Charleston, while Slocum, with the Twentieth 

Corps and Kilpatrick's cavalry .., marched up the .Augusta to Sister Ferry, threat


ening an advance on Savannah at Tallahatchie. 

General Blair and his corps waded through a swamp three miles wide, with · 

water four feet deep, while the weather was almost cold enough to freeze the 

men. 

But they pressed unflinchingly for\vard and had a sharp fight with the Con


federates, driving them behind the Edisto at Branchville, after which the army 

directed its march toward Orangeburg. 

At this place, the Seventeenth Corps carried the bridge over the South Edisto 

by a brilliant dash, General Blair, as was his custom, leading his men up to 

the month of the blazing cannon. The battery was found covered with a para


pet of cotton and earth, extending as far as the eye could reach. 

Blair threw Smith's division in front, while his other division crossed below, ; 

and the bridge was carried after a desperate fight. .At the battle of Bentonvile, · 


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N. C., on the march up to Richmond, the Se,·euteeuth were also heavily engaged. 
On the 11th of July, 1865, he bade farewell to his corps at Louisville, and 
retired to private life. 
As soo1~ as the war was finished, General Blair perceived that the. people of 
the South were honestly anxious to abide the result of the conflict in good faith, 
and he urged, "~ith the same power and persistency which ever distingui5hed 
him, a magnani.mons treatment of the ex-rebels. 

At this time he continued his connection with the Republican part)·, and endeavored 
to shape its policy in his State. to that of Conservatism. The l\lissouri 
Legislature had passed a law disfranchising all who had participated in 
the late rebellion, and another law requiring all the citizens to take the test oath. 

Both of these measures were bitterly opposed by General Blair as i)roscrip.:. 
tive and unconstitutional. He argued in his powerfully logical manner, that 
the war being over, there was no need of further rigor toward the men who 
had engaged in the rebellion, and that the deprirntion of their right to vote 
was dangerous to the peace and prosperity of the State. 

He positively refused to subscribe to the test oath, and, upon presenting himself 
at the polls in St. Louis, his vote was refused for that reason. He therefore 
brought a suit before the courts for the purpose of testing the constitutionality 
of the law. The case is now before the Supreme Court of the United 
States, and is still undecided. • 

From its first organization, General Blair had been a member of the Republican 
party, but he now gradually severed his connection with it. ·when the 
present reconstruction laws of Congress were passed, he denounced them as 
despotic, unconstitutional and revolutionary, and declared that the people of the 
South would do right to resist their execution. 'Yith the .same earnestness, he 
opposed the policy of universal negro suffrage as a disgrace and outrage upon 
the people, and a short time .since the following letter ·was g~ven the public: 

1V'ASIIl:XGTON, June 30. 
COL. J.A.)IES 0. BROADHEAD. 
Dem· Colonel: In reply to your inquiries, I beg leave to say that I leave to you to 
determine, on consultation with my friends from :\Iissouri, whether my name shall be 
presented to the Democratic Convention, and to submit the following, as what I con. 
sider the real and only issue in this contest: The Reconstruction policy of the_Radicals 
will be complete before the next election; the States, so long excluded, will have been 
admitted, negro suffrage established, and the carpet-baggers installed in their seats in 
lJOth branches of Congress. There is no possibility of changing the political character 
of the Senate, even if the Democrats should elect their President and a majority of the 
popular branch of Congress. "\\e cannot, therefore, undo the R:ulical plan of Reconstruction 
by Congressional action; the Senate will continue a bar to its repeal. Must 
we submit to it? How can it be overthrown? It can only be overthrown by the authority 
of the Executive, who is sworn to maintain the Constitution, and who will fail 
to do his duty if he allows the Constitution to perish under a series of Congressional 
enactments which are in palpable violation of its fundamental principles. 
If the President elected by the Democracy enforces or permits others to enforce 
these Reconstruction acts, the Radicals, by the accession of twenty spurious Senators 


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and fifty Representatives, will control both branches of Congress, ancl his administration 
will be as powerless as the present one of :Mr. Johnson. 
There is but one way to restore the Government and the Constitution, and that is for 


the President elect to declare these acts null and void, compel the army to undo its usurpations 
at tl1e South, disperse the carpei-.bag State Governments, all010 the white people to reorganize 
their own governments, and el~ct Senators and Representatives. The House ?f 
Representtttives will contain a majority of Democrats from the North, and they will 
admit the Representatives elected by the white people of the Sout~, and, with the cooperation 
of the President, it will not be difficult to compel the Senate to submit once 
more to the oblirrations of the Constitution. It will not be able to withstand the public 


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judgment·, ifdistinctly invoked and clearly expressed on this fundamental issue, and it 
is the sure way to avoid all future strife to put this issue plainly to the country. 

I repeat that this is the real and only question which we should allow to control us: 
Shall we submit to the usurpations by which the Government has been overtlll'own, or 
shall we exert ourselves for . its full and complete restoration? It is idle to talk of 
bonds, greenbacks, gold, the public faith, and the public credit. ·what can a ·Demo-~ 
erotic President do in regard to any of these, with a Congress in both branches controlled 
by the carpet-baggers and their allies ? He will be powerless to stop the supplies 
by which idle negroes are organized into political clubs, by which an army is maintained 
to protect these vagabonds in their outrages upon the ballot. These, and things like 
these, eat up the revenues and resources of the Government and destroyjts credit, 
make the difference _between gold and greenbacks. We must restore the Constitution 
before we can restore the finances, and to do this we must have a President who will 
execute the will of the people by trampling into dust the usurpations of Congress, 
kno,Yn as the Reconstruction acts. I wish to stand before the Convention upon this 
issue, but it is one which embraces everything else that is of value in its large and iit 
comprehensive results. It is the one thing that includes all that is worth a contest, and Q 
without it there is nothing that gives dignity, honor, or value to the struggle. f 

Your friend, 
FRANK P. BLAIR. 

This letter has elicited the severest criticisms of the Republican leaders, who · 
have not hesitated to warn all of the danger of a second war, in case the Democratic 
ticket should be elected. The New York World ~hus sensibly replies 
to these alarmists: 

Xmy, what do the·Radicals infer from this? They pretend to see in it a proof that 
if the Democratic ticket is elected, we shrill have a new civil war. The TJ·ibzme exclaims, 
"Americans ! if you want another civil war inaugurated, vote the Blair ticket! 
He tells you just how he will set it going. l\Iark him!" 

Rather mark the cmrnrdice of the political party that shakes in its shoes at the apprehended 
consequences of the election of General Blair to the ofilce of-JTice President. 
Admitting, for the sake of the argument, that General Blair is the bold, bloody, 
and resolute soldier which the Radicals paint him, is it not really merciful in the Democrats 
to volunteer to catch and cage him by putting him in the Republican Senate 
chamber? What will be the powers of General Blair as the presidinrr officer of the 
Republican Senate? He can give a casting vote when the Senate is e~ually divided; 
but the Senate will never be equally divided on a party question while General Blairis 
Vice President. The Senate makes its own rules; it alone can punish members for 
their violation, or expel them in extreme cases. The Vice President as presiding 

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adopt: His duties consist in recognizing members when tliey rise to speak, putting the 
ques~1oi:-s when they are to be voted on, declaring the result of the vote, and certifying 
by lus signature the legislative acts of the body. Aside from his casting votes in case 

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of a tie, the duties of the Vice President are purely ministerial, and performed under 
the direction of the Senate. Ifhe decides points of order, he must decide them according 
to the rules. Ifhe deviates, tlie Senate can always oveITule his decisions. 

1Ve have taken pity on the fears of the Radicals and given them these reassuring 
explanations. If General Blair be the dangerous man they suppose him, it?-what way 
could the Democratic party so safely dispose of him as by giving him over, for the next 
four years, to the control of the Republican Senate? There is no official act which he 
can perform during his whole term except with their sanction and as their servant. 
1Vas it not really magnanimous of the Democratic Convention to offer to put this formidable 
man in the very stronghold of the Republicans, where he will constantly act 
under their eyes and be their minister? 

"But if President Seymour should be impeached and put out of office, General Blair 
would succeed him." Yes; but, in that case, he would be indebted to the Republican 
Senate for his position. Mr. Seymour, judging from the Republican terror of General 
Blair, will be pretty safe against inpeachment and also against assassination. Two 
Presidents dying in office in immediate succession, is too improbable a contingency to 
have much influence on political calculations. In every view, therefore, the terror of 
the Republican party at General Blair's letter seems excessive. 

As to the letter itself, it is too outspoken to need much comment. "There is but one 
way," it says, to get rid of the negro govern~ents, and that is, to disperse them by 
military force. This is a point on which Democrats differ. For ourselves, we have· 
repeatedly expressed the opinion that there is no other remedy within the next four· 
years than the one which General Blair indicates; but a considerable portion of the· 
Democratic party differ from us, and believe that when we have elected a President we· 
shall discover a peaceful mode of upsetting the bastard governments. "\Ve do not think 
it wise to renew the discussion of this question until after the election. 

The Democratic party has doubtless made itself responsible, to some extent, for the· 
recent utterances of its candidates. It is responsible for those of Governor Se.rmour 
as wen as for those of General Blair. Governor Seymour, in his Cooper Institute 
speech, made the financial question the grand pivot of his policy, and put forth views 
which must command the approval of all honest and enlightened m~n. General Blair, 
in his letter, makes the overthrow of negro reconstruction the all-important thing, and 
belittles the financial question. "\Vith candidates thus publicly differing, what <lid the 
Democratic Convention decide? By nominating Governor Seymour for the position of 
real authority, it gave its practical indorsement to his views; by nominating General 
Blair for an office without any power, it affinned indeed its detestation of the negro 
governments, but reserved the ·question how they are to be dealt with for future decision.. 
Had the candi<lates changed places, the Convention would doubtless liave 
made a mistake. The next Democratic President can make no civil nor military appointments 
without the consent of the Republican Senate; and, while .Mr. Blair would 
have been unable to O'et his nominations confirn1ed, l\Ir. Seymour will probably find no 
difficulty. If l\Ir. Se.}~nour should die in office, the Senate would compel l\Ir. Blair to 
keep all his predecessor's civil appointees, including the Cabinet, and would allow him 
to give no new officers to the army. The pretended alarm at his letter is ridiculous. 

Amoncr the innumerable notices of the respective candidates for Presidency 
and Vic:Presidency, we have space only for the following from the Philadelphia 
fge, in reference to the subject of our biogr~phy: 

It has been intimated that the Democratic Convention would no' doubt step beyond 
late party lines in its present n?minations. The lar~e influx of the purest an.cl most 
eminent men of the late Repubhcan party, who, shakmg the dust _from off their feet, 
have abjured the company of the profligate and revolutionary Radicals,seemed to merit 


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-a distinct and cordial welcome from the Democracy. It could not have been given 
.more appropriately and gracefully than in the nomination of General Francis P. Blair, 
for Vice President. Bred a Democrat, lie became. a leader in the Republican ranks, ) 
.and, during the lifetime of 1\Ir. Lincoln, enjoyed his peculiar confidence. He did not 
abuse it, but strove to stem the torrent of Radicalism when its pressure swayed and 
threatened to overwhelm the Republican President. As a membei: of the Thirtyseventh 
Congress, he gave a splendid exhibition of oratory in a debate in which he en.
countered and overthrew Colfax, who appeared as the political champion of Fremont. 
He was also a member of the Thirty-eighth Congress, but left it for military serdce in 
the field. He had been very active at the he~inning of the war, in wresting :Missouri 
from the control of the secessionists. He afterwards received from ~Ir. Lincoln t11e 
appointment of ~fajor-General in the Army. He shared in all the glories of the cam


paigns of Sherman, and was one of the most highly esteemed of his subordinates by 
that great military commander. Since the war General Blair has sustained the policy 
of President Johnson, and i5, in opinion, thoroughly identified with the Democracy. 
His views were lately stated in a eulogy upon the lion. Thomas H. Benton, of which t 
we, at the time, laid a portion before our readers. llis recent letter commended him to 
us, as it did, no doubt, to the Convention. 

General Blair is in the prime of manhood, being now about forty-seven years of age. 
He is prompt, resolute and earnest, with a wide experience, civil and military. 
His nomination is heartily acceptable to us, and we applaud the wisdom that dictated it. 



PROCEEDINGS 

OF THE 

NATIONAL DEl\iOCRATIC CONVENTION, 

CONVENED .AT TAl\DIA......~Y HALL, XEW YORK, 

ON THE F01JRTH OF JULY, 1868. 

This vast hall was crowded to suffocation with the delegates and with those 
who held tickets of admission. The weather was terrifically hot, yet, in addition 
to the thousands who swarmed within, there· was an immense multitude 
crowding, sweating and elbowing with each other on the outside, catching up 
every scrap of information that came to them, and hoping against hope that 
some means of their entrance would finally be found. 

They came from every part of the broad United States. , The 318 delegates 
who met in the Emporium of America, included men from every Sta.te and 
Territory in the Union. 

They were men who came there to work. There was 'Vade Hampton,. from 
South Carolina, the l\Iurat of the South, tall and large, with his face bronzed 
on many a hard fought battle ·field, with his black, piercing eyes, iron jaws and 
square chin, and with a record of as daring bravery in a lost cause as ever shed 
lustre on a ·warrior's name. 

There was the venerable D. B. Eaton, from the hills of Connecticut, whose 
voice still had the ring of the trumpet, and who wields such a powerful influence 
in his State. 

And there was S. S. Cox, or as he is popularly known "Sunset" Cox-a 
· man with a small, wiry frame, compact body, handsome face, dark, pleasant 
eyes, polite and genial manner, and his acknowledged ability as a debater. 

Illinois among her thirty-two delegates sent .William A. Richardson, known 
as "Old Buena Vista Bill," "Old Stubborn Bill," and "Spunky Bill." He 
commanded an Illinois regiment during the .Mexican war, ·and was one of 
the staunchest friends of Stephen A.. Douglas. He is a· man of large frame, 
with broad shoulders, bushy head, iron-grey hair, black eyes, beetling eyebrows, 
roughened by the prairies and scorched by the sun. 


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.And there were Erastus Brooks, the well known editor of the New York 
Evening E.'Vm·ess, and Oswald Ottcndorfer, the editor of the prosperous German 
paper, the New York Staats Zeitung, besides the three hundred and more, numbering 
some of the most sterling men and first minds of the country. 
The labors were begun on Saturday, July 4th, one of the hottest days ofthe 
season, by the preliminary organization of the Convention, and the appointment 
of a Committee on Resolutions and Platform. The Committee consisted of 
thirty-six members, one from each State in the Union. 
The Committee met on Saturday evening, pursuant to a resolution of the 
Convention, and after several ballotings agreed upon the names to be presented 
as officers of the Convention. 
The Convention was called to. order on Monday, at 10:45 A. M., by the 
Hon. H. S. Palmer, temporary President; and after prayer by the Rev. 'Vm. 
Quinn, of New York, the following report was submitted: 

FOR PRESIDENT. 

The IIO:N. HORA.TIO SEYMOUR, of New York. 

At the reading of Governor Seymour's name the Convention rose and gave cheer 
after cheer. The Secretary, when the applause had subsided, proceeded and read as 
follows: 
FOR VICE PRESIDENTS A1'.~ SECRETARIES. 

States. Vice Presidents. Ser:ret.arie3. 

Alabama...................Ex-Gov. Reuben Chapman ..........·wm. M. Lowe. 
Arkansas ..................B. D. Turner......................John W. 1VriO'ht. 
California..................Hon. A. II. Rose....................M. J. Gillette~ 
Connecticut................II. A. Mitchell.....................Geo. D. Hastings. 
Deln:ware ..................G. W. Cummins....................Custis W. Wright. 
Flom.la . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... Thos. Randall ......................C. II. Smith. 
Georgia ....................Hon. A. D. Wright ..... :...........Wm. A. Reid. 
Illinois ....................D. M. Woodson...... . . . . . . . ......W. T. Dowdell. 
Indiana ....................J. A. Cravens......................\V. R. Bowles. 
Iowa ......................Wm. ~lcClintock......·.............P.H. BQsquet. 
Kansas ..•.................A. J. Mead.........................Isaac Sharp. 
Kentucky..................I~ucius Desha......................Hart Gibson. 
Louisiana ..................L. St. Martin.............'..........J. H. Kennard 
Maine .....................Isaac Reid.........................J. A. Linscott... 
Maryland .................. Geo. R. Dennis..................... O. Horsey. 
~fassachusetts..............Peter Harvey.....·.................Charles G. Clark. 
~Iichigan...................A. N. Hart.........................F. V. Smith. 
M~nnes~ta · · ..........: .... Winthrop Young... . ..............Isaac Staples. 
:M1ssour1 ....................Thomas L. Price................; .. A. J. Reid. 
Mississippi...................E. C. Walthall.....................Felb:: Laboure. 
Nebraska................... Geo. N. Crawford...................Peter Smith. 
~emda ·.... : ..............D. E. Buell ........................Geo. H. Wiilard. 
~ewHampshire............Geo. IL Pierce.....................Albert R.IIatch. 
~ew J;rsey.. ···............F. S. Lathrop.•....................C. E. Hendrickson.
iew1'.ork ... · · · · · · ·· ·. · · ... Wm. M. Tweed....................II. A. Richmond. 
~:th Carolina.. · ..........Bedford Brown .....................Dr. R. B. Haywood. 
0 °·· ···· · · · · · · · ········ .. Edson B. Olds...........•..........Jolm Hamilton. 
regon·..··· · ·· ............E. L. Bristow..........." .••........A. D. Fitch. 


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Vice Presidents. . Secl'etariei. 

Pennsylvama...............•Tolm L. Dawson .................... Geo. \V. )I. Heilly. 
Hhode Islan~1................A.masa Sprague .................... E. B. Brownson. 
South Carolma. ............. B. F. Perry ........................ W. S. l\Iullins. 


Tennessee .................A. 0. P . .Xicholson .................H. C. l\IcLatwhlin. 
Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ashball Smith.: .................... Daniel .A.. V ef tch. 
Vermont...................IIe:wey Keys ....................... Geo. II. Simmons. 
Virginia...................Robert G. Conrad ..................."'\Vm. D. Coleman. 
1\r~st Y~rginia.............. Jos. "'\Y. Gnllngher .................. Carlos .A.. Sperry. 
""\V1sconsm ..................Ex-Gov. N. Dewey ................. E.T. Thorn. 


:FOR READING SECRETARIES. 

E. 0. Perrin, of New York, V. A.. Gaskell, of Georgia, 
l\Ioses l\I. Strong, of "'\Visconsin, F. ~I. Hutchinson, of Pennsylvania, 
Robert P. Tamsey, of Illinois. ' 
FOR SERGEANT-AT-AR::ns. 
Edward .A.. l\Ioor~, of New York. 
The Committee recommend that the rules and regulations of the K ational Democratic 
Convention of 1864 be adopted by this Convention for the government of its proceedings. 
(Cheers.) 
HIESTER CLY.lIER, Chainnan,


"'\VILLI.A.)! R. l\IoRRISON, Secretary. 

Mr. Seymour was conducted to the chair by Governor Bigler of Pennsylvania 
and Governor Hammond of South Carolina, and upon being introduced, 
was received with enthusiastic applause. 'Vhen the tumult had partially subsided, 
he addressed them as follows : 


GENTLmIE~ OF THE Co:N.YENTION: I thank you for the honor you have done me in 
making me your presiding officer. (Cheers.) This Convention is made up of a large 
number of delegates from all parts of our broad land. To a great degree we are strangers 
to each other, and view the subjects wliich agitate our country from different standpoints. 
"'\Ve cannot, at once, learn each other's modes of thought, or grasp all the facts 
which bear upon the minds of others. Yet our session must be brief, and we are forced 
to act without delay upon questions of an exciting character and of deep import to our 
country. (Applause.) To maintain order, to restrain all exhibitions of passion, to 
drive out of.our minds all unkind suspicions is, at this time, a great duty. (Cheers.) I 
rely upon your sense of this duty and not upon my own ability to sustain me in the 1 
station in which I am placed by your kind partiality. l\Ien never met under greater responsibilities 
than those which now weigh upon us. (.Applause.} It is not a mere party 
triumph we seek. "'\Ye are trying to save our country from the dangers which overhang 
it. (Cheers.) We wish to lift off the perplexities and the shackles which, in the shape 

of bad laws and of crushing taxation, now paralyze the business and labor of our land. 
(Loud cheers.) We hope, too, that we can give order, prosperity and happiness to 
those sections of om· country which suffer so deeply to-tlay in their homes and in all the 
fields of their industry from the unhappy events of the last eight years. I trust that 
our actions will show that we are governed by an earnest purpose to help all classes of 
our citizens. ..A.voiding harsh invectives against men, we should keep the public mind 
fixed upon the questions which must now be met and solved. (Cheers.) · Let us leave 
the past to the calm judgment of the future and confront the perils of the clay. (Cheers.) 

We are forced to meet the assertions in the resolutions put forth by the late Republican 
ConYention. I aver there is not in this body one man who has it in his heart to 
excite so much of angry feeling against the Republican party as must be stiITed up in 
the minds of those who read these declarations in the light of recent events and in view 


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of the condition of our country. (Applause.) In the first place, they congratulate the 

perplexed man of business, the burdened tax-payer, the laborer whose hours of toil are 
lcnothened out by the arowin(l' cost of the necessaries of life, upon the success of that 1 

rec~nstruction policy ;hich l~as brought all these evils upon them by the cost of its 
military despotism and the corruption of its bureau agencies. In one resolution they 
" denonnce all for ms of repudiation as a national crime." Then why did they put upon 
the statute books of the nation the laws ·which invite the citizens who borrow coin to 
force their creditor to take debased paper, and thus wrong him out of a large share of 
his claim in violation of the most solemn compact? (Cheers.) If repudiation is a 

national crime, is it no crime to invite all the citizens of this cotmtry thus to repudiate 
their individual promises? (.Applause.) 1Vas it not a crime to force the creditors of 
this and other States to take a currency at times worth no more than 40 cents on the 
dollar in repayment for the sterling coin they gave to build roads and canals which 
yield such ample returns of wealth and prosperity? (Applause.) Again they say, "It 
is due to the laborer of the nation that taxation should be equalized." Then why did they 
make taxation unequal? Beyond the injustice of making one class of citizens pay for 
another their share of the costs of schools,· of roads, of the local laws which protected 
their lives and property, it was an unwise and hurtful thing. (Cheers.) It sunk the 
credit of the country, as unusual terms are always hurtful to the credit of the borrower. 
They also declare, " The best policy to diminish ·our burden of debt is so to improve our 
credit that capitalists will seek to loan us money at lower rates of interest than we now pay 
and we must continue to pay so long as repudiatiort, partial or total, open or covert, is threatened 
or suspected." Then why have they used full five hundred millions of the taxes 
drawn from the people of this country to uphold a despotic military authority and to 
crush out the life of States, when, if this money had· been used to pay our debts, capitalists 
would now seek to lend us money at lower rates of interest. (Cheers.) But for 
this "covert repudiation" our national credit would not be tainted in the markets of 
the world. .A.gain they ~eclare, "Of all who were faithful in the trials of the late war, 
bere were none entitled to more especial honor than the brave soldiers and seamen 
who endured the hardships of campaign and cruise, and imperiled their lives in the 
service of the country; the bounties and pensions provided by the laws for these brave 
defenders of the nation are obligations never to be forgotten ; the widows and orphans 
of the gallant dead are the wards of the people-a sacred legacy bequeathed to the 
nation's protecting care." How have these sacred duties been performed: They pay to 
the maimed man, to the widow, or the orphan, a currency which they have sunk onequarter 
below its rightful value by their policy of hate, of waste, and of military despotism. 
The pittance paid to the wounded soldiers is pinched down twenty-five per J 
cent. below the value of that coin which he had a right to expect\ (Loud cheering.) Is 
there no covert repudiation in this? (Applause.) Again they say, "Foreign immigra-. 
tion, which in the pa~t has added so much to the wealth, development, and resources and in• 
crease ofpou:er to this Republic, the asylum, of the oppressed of <ill nations, should be fostered 
and encouraged by a liberal and just policy_." Is this forei!nl immi(l'ration fostered 
by a policy which, in cruel mockery of laws j~t passed decla;ing eight hours to b~a 
legal day's labor, by the cost of government and of swarms of officials, so swells the 
costs of living that men must toil on to meet the exactions? (Cheers.) The time was 
when we could not only invite the European to share with us the material blessings of 
'Our great country; but more than that, we could tell. those who fled from oppression 
that we lived under a government of laws administered by the judiciary, which kept the 
bayo~et ~ncl the. sword in due subordination. (Cheers.) 1Ve could point to a written 
constitution which not only marked out the powers of government, but with an."Cious 

. car.e se~ure~ to the humblest man the rights of property, of person, and of conscience. ~ 
Is 1mmigrat1on encouraged by trampling that Constitution in the dust; treating it with · 


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contempt; shackling the Judiciary; insulting the Executive, and giving all the world to 
understand that the great guaranties of political and social rights are destroyed ? (Great 
~pplause.) But the crowning indictment against the folies and crimes of those in power 
1s in these words: "That we recognize the great principles laid down in the immortal 
Declaration of Independence, as the true foundation of democratic government, and we 
hail with gladness every effort towards making these principles a livin~ reality on 
every inch of American soil." If within the limits of ten States of this Union an 
American citizen, stung by a sense of his wrongs, should publicly and truthfully denounce 
the men in power because, in the very language of this Declaration of Independence, 
"They have erected a multitude of new offices and sent forth swarms of officers to 
harass our people and eat out tl1eir substance," he would in all lmni'an probability be 
dragged to a prison. Or if, in the indignant language of our fathers, he should exclaim, 
" They have affected to render the militai·y independent of and superior to the cil:il power, 
they have abolished the free system of English lazvs and established lte,.ein an al"bitrary government;" 
for the offence of asserting these principles, he would be tried and punished 
by a military tribunal. (Great cheering.) Having declared that the principles of the 
Declaration of Independence should be made a " living reality on et•ery inch of Anzerican 
soil," they put in nomination a military chieftain who stands at the head of that system 
of despotisms that crushe§ beneatli its feet the greatest principles of the Declaration of 
Independence. (Cheers.) To-day, in some States, it is held by military orders to be 
a crime to speak out the indignation and contempt which burn within the bosoms of 
patriotic men. If to-morrow a military order should be put forth in that State where 
the ashes of ·washington are entombed, that it should be an offence to declare that the 
military should ever be subordinate to the civil authority-to speak out the sentiment 
that it was a disgrace to our country to let the hordes of officials eat up the substance 
of the people-he who uttered these words could be dragged to prison from the very 
grave where lie the remains of the author of the Declaration of Independence-{loud 
cheers)-from this outrage there could be no appeal to the .courts; and the Republican 
candidate for the Presidency has accepted a position which makes the rigqts and 
liberties of a large share of our people dependent upon his will. (Applause.) In view 
of these things, can there be one man in this Convention who can let a personal ambition, 
a passion, a prejudice, turn him aside one hair's breadth in his efforts to wipe 
out the wrongs and outrages which disgrace our country? (Cheers.) Can there be 
one man here whose heart is so dead to all that is great and noble in patriotism that 
he will not gladly sacrifice all other things for the sake of his country, its liberties 
and its greatness? Can we suffer any prejudices, growing out of past differences 
of opinion, to hinder us from uniting now with all who will act with us to save our 
country? (Cheers.) 1Ve meet to-day to see what measures can be taken to arrest 
the dangers which threaten our country, and to retrive it from the evils and burdens 
resulting from bad government and unwise counsels. I thank God that the strife of 
arms has ceased, and that once more in the great Conventions of our party we can 
call through the whole roll of States and find men to answer for each. (Tremendous 
and continued cheering.) Time and events in their great cycles have brought us 
to this spot to renew and invigorate that constitutional Government which nearly 
eighty years ago was inaugurated in this city~ (Loud cheers.) It was here that 
George Washington, the first President, swore to "preserve, protect, and defend" the 
Constitution of these United States. (Cheers.) ·And here, this day, we as solemnly 
pledge ourselves to uphold the rights and liberties of the American people. Then, as 
now, a great war which had desolated our land had ceased. Then, as now, there was 
in every patriotic breast a longing for the blessings of good government, for the protection 
of laws, and for sentiments of fraternal regard and affection among the inhabitants 
of all the States of this Union. ".,.hen our Government, in 178!:>, was inaugurated 


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m this city, there were glad processions of men and those manifestations of great joy 
which a people show when they feel that an event has happened which is to give lasting 
blessing to the land. (Cheers.) To-day in this same spirit this vast assemblage 
meets, and the streets of this city are thronged with men who have come from the utmost 
borders of our continent. They are filled with the hope that we are about, by 
our actions and our policy, to bring back the blessings of good government. It is 
among the happiest omens which inspirit us now that those who fou~ht bravely in our 
late civil war are foremost in their demands that there shall be peace m our land. The 
passions of hate and nialice. may linger in meaner breasts, but we find ourselves upheld 
in our generous p\ll1)oses by those who showed true courage and manhood on the field 
of battle. (Cheers.) In the spirit, then, of George "\Vashington and of the patriots of 
the revolution, let us take the steps t6 reinaugurate our Government, to start it once 
again on its course to greatness and prosperity. (Loud cheers.) l\Iay A.lmighty Goel 
give us the wisdom to carry out our purposes, to give to every State of our Union the 

blessings of peace, good order, and fraternal affection. 

At the conclusion of the President's address, l\Ir. Brooks offered a series of 
resolutions, which were received. A communication from the " \Voman's Suffrage 
Convention of America," signed by Susan B. Anti10ny, was also received 
and referred to the Committee on Credentials. 

At the afternoon session, a communication was received from the President 
of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Convention, which was in session at the same time. 
Nothing of importance occurred during the remainder of the session, and it adjourned 
until Tuesday, July 7. 

Pursuant to adjournment, the Convention met at 10 A. M., General Thomas 

L. Price, of Missouri, being in the chair. Governor Seymour was present and 
on the platform, although slightly indisposed. 
Prayer was offered by the Rev. Dr. Plummer, who, in his pleading to tl1e 

Divine throne, touchingly alluded to the sudden death of Peter Cagger, who 

was thrown from his carriage and instantly killed the day before. 

The first important proceeding, after the opening of the session, was the 

adoption of the platform, which will be found -in the proper place. The two


thirds rule of 1844 was agreed upon, after which the nominations and ballot


ings for the Presidency began. 

The Secretary announced ·the following candidates .as having been put in 

nomination: James E. English, of Connecticut; George H. Pendleton, of 

Ohio; Joel Parker, of New Jersey; Sanford E. Church, of New· York; Asa 

Packer, of Pennsylvania; Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee; James R. Doolittle, 

of Wisconsin. 

The following is a list of candidates nominated: Alabama 8-No non1ina


tion. Arkansas, 5-No nomination. California, 5-No n~mi~ation. Con


necticut, 6-James C. English. Delaware, 3-No nomination. Florida, 3


No nomination. Georgia, 9-No nomination. Illinois, 16-No nomination. 

low~, 8-:-No nom_i~ation. Kansas, 3-No nomination. Kentucky, 11-No 

nommat10n. Lomsiana, 7-No nomination. l\Iaine 7-Winfield Scott Hancock; 
minority nominated George H. Pendleton. 'Maryland, 7-No nomi


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nation. Massachusetts, 12-Ko nomination. Michigan, 8-Ko nomination. 
Minnesota, 4-;No nomination. l\Iississippi, 7-Ko nomination. l\Iissouri, 
11-No .nomination. Nebraska, 3-No nomination. Nevada, 3-No nomination. 
New Hampshire, 5-No nomination. New Jersey, 7-Ex-GoYernor 
Joel Parker. New York, 33-Sanford E. Church. North Carolina, 9-Ko 
nomination. Ohio, 21-George H. Pendleton. Oregon, 3-George H. Pendleton. 
Pennsylvania, 26-Asa Packer. Rhode Island, 4-No nomination. 
South Carolina, 6-No nomination. Tennessee, IO-Andrew Johnson. Texas, 
6-No nomination. Vermont, 5-James C. English. Virginia, 10-No 
nomination. 'Yest Virginia, 5-No nomination.· 'Yisconsin, 8-James R. 
Doolittle; minority, George H. Pendleton. 

The balloting immediately began, and the following is the answer to the call 
of the Secretary : 

ALABAJIA-The Chainnan of the Delegation-The State of .Alabama casts her eight 
votes for .Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee. 
ARKANSAS-The Chairman of the Delegation-The State of Arkansas casts her five 
votes for James E. English, of Connecticut. 

CALIFORNL\.-The Chairman of the Delegation-California asks to pass her vote. 

·coNNECTICUT-The Chairman of the Delegation-Connecticut casts her six votes 
for James E. English. 
DELAWARE-The Chairman of the Delegation-Delaware has the honor to cast her 
three votes for that illustrious Buckeye Statesman, George H. Pendleton. 
FLORIDA-The Chairman of the Delegetion-Florida casts her three electoral votes 
for Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee. 
GEORGIA_:The ciinirman of the Delegation-Georgia casts her nine votes for Andrew 
Johnson, of Tennessee. . 
ILLINOIS-The Chairman of the Delegation-Illinois casts lier vote. for George H. 
Pendleton. 
IowA-The Chairman of the Delegation-The State of Iowa casts her eight votes 
for George H. Pendleton, of Ohio. 
KANsAs-The Chairman of the Delegation-The State of Kansas casts two votes for 
George H. Pendleton; one half-vote for Thomas Hendricks, and one half-vote for Frank 

P. Blair. 
KENTUC:h.-Y-The Chairman of the Delegation-The State of Kentucky casts her 
eleven votes for George H. Pendleton. 
LomsL\.NA-The Chainnan of the Delegation-The State of Louisiana casts her 
votes for General W. S. Hancock. 
MAIXE-Tbe Cliairman of the Delegation-The State of :Maine casts 4~ votes for W. 

S. Hancock, H for George H. Pendleton, and one for Andrew Johnson. 
l\lARYLA~'"D-The Chairman of the Delegation-The State .of :Maryland casts 4~ 
''Otes for George H. Pendleton; 2b votes for Andrew Johnson. 
1L\.ss.ACHUSETTs-The Chairman of the Delegation-The State of ~Iassachusetts 
casts ten votes for General Hancock, and one vote for George II. Pendleton, of Ohio. 
l\IrCIIIGA~~The Chairman of the Delegation-The State of ::\Iichigan casts her eight 
electoral votes for Reverdy Johnson, of ~faryland. 
l\Ir1'.~~0T.A-The Chairman of the Delegation-Four votes for George H. Pendleton. 
l\IrssrssIPPI-The Chairman of t110 Delegation-Mr. President, I am instructed hy the 

Mississippi delegation to cast her nine -rotes for W. S. Hancock. 
l\Irssoum-The Chairman of the Delegation-The State of ::\Iissouri casts fin votes 
for George H. Pendleton; one vote for S. E. Church, of :Xew York; two-and-a-half 


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votes for Thomas Hendricks ; two-and-a-half votes for General Hancock ; and half a 
vote for Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee. 

A delegate from California here asked l~ave to cast the vote of that State, 
stating that some of the delegates were absent from the room when her name 
was called. 

The President-The State of California will be again called when the roll 
of States has been gone through with. It greatly embarrasses the officers of 
the Convention and the reporters of the press to make nominations out of order. 

NEBRASKA-Tl1e Chairman of the delegation-The State of Nebraska casts her three 
votes for George H. Pendleton, of Ohio. (.Applause.) 
NEVADA-The Chairman of the Delegation-The State of N evacla casts her three 
votes for Ex-Governor Joel Parker, of New Jersey. 

:NEW HA::\IPSilIRE-The Chairman of the Delegation-The State of New Hampshire 

casts one vote for J°am.es R. Doolittle ; two votes for General Hancock, and two votes 

for George H. Pendleton. 

:NEW JERSEY-The Chairman of the Convention-New Jersey casts her seven elec


toral votes for Joel Parker. (Cheers.) 

NEW YonK-The Chairman of the Delegation-:New York casts her thirty-three 

votes for Sanford E. Church. (Cheers.) 

:NoRTII CAROLINA~The Chairman of the Delegation-North Carolina casts nine 

votes for Andrew Johnson. (Cheers.) 

Omo-The Chairman of the Delegation-Ohio casts her twenty-one votes for Geo. 

H. Pendleton. 
(Cheers.) 
0REGO~-The Chairman of the Delegation-Oregon casts her three votes for Geo. 
H. Pendleton. 
PE~SYLVA:NI.A.-The Chairman of the Delegation-Pennsylvania cast~ her twenty-
SL"'\: votes for Asa Packer. · 
RHODE ISLAND-The Chairman of the Delegation-Rhode Island casts her four votes 
for James R. Doolittle. 
SOUTH CAROL~A-The Chairman of the Delegation-The State of South Carolina 
casts her six votes for Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee. 
TE..~E--The Chairman of the Delegation-The State of Tennessee casts her 
ten votes for Andrew Johnson. (Cheers.) . · 
TEXAS-The Chairman of the Delegatfon-The State of Texas casts her sh: votes 
for Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee. 
VIRGim.!.-The Chairman of the Delegation-Virginia casts her ten votes for Andrew 
Johnson, of Tennessee._ {Cheers.) . · 
WEST VrnGL."'IA-The Chairman of the Delegation-The State of West Virginia 
casts her five electoral votes for George R. Pendleton. · • 
WISco~srn-The Chairman of the Delegation-The delegates of the State of Wisconsin, 
under the instructions of our Convention, cast her eiaht votes for James R. 

Doolittle. 
0 

CALIFORNIA-A Delegate-By direction of the chairman of our deieaatio~ who is 

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mill health, I am instmcted to cast as the vote of California, three for Parker, of Ncw 
Jersey, and two for Pendleton, of Ohio. 

As 212 were necessary to a choice, the balloting was continued. Six separate 
ballots were faken with the results_ shown by the tables annexed. 

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29 

TABLE OF THE BALLOTING BY STATES. 
FIRST BALLOT. 

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STATES. 

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Alabama...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8· \ I 1 
Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 I I 5 

California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ 2J ~ 3 
Connecticut.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . u u

31


Delaware ................. . 3 


8 
2 
11 
Florida........................ 3 


Georgia...... ;............. Q 
Illinois..................... 16 
Indiana.................... 13 
Iowa... ; ..•.... :........... 8 
Kansas ...........••...... ;. 3 
Ken~~cky ................ : . 11 
Lou1s1ana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • 7 
J\Iaine... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 
:Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 
:Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 
:Michigan . . .. • . . . . . .. . . • . • . . 8 
:Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 
::Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 
:Missouri ......••.....•..... 11 
Nebraska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 
Nevada..................... 3 
New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . 5 

New Jersey................... 7 


New York ................. 33 
North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . \:> 
Ohio...................•~·. 21 
Oregon.: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 
Pennsylvania•.............. 26 
Rhode Island.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 

I 

16 
131 

I 


I 

7 

I 

5 

2 
3 


2 

211 


3 

26 

South Carolina.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 

Tennessee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 
Texas••••••..............,. 6 
Vermont •.................. 5 5 

·Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 • 
West Virginia..... • . . . . .. . sJ 5 
Wisconsin.................. 81.... 

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6 

3 

\) 

1 
2 


2

l". 

1 

4

61

1g 

101 

· 

8 

Total ....................317 105 33~ 341613 26 6513 


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TABLE OF THE BALLOTING BY ST.ATES. 
SECOXD BALLOT. 

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STATES. ~ g . ~ ~ ~ ~ s E ~· : s S· 

1

\ ·~ \ r ·1 ~ I~ I~ I~ 1 ~ Ir f ~ I ~ I;

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Alabanm ... . .. .. . . . . .. 8 
Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 

~ 2~ 2 
California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 

3 2 
Connecticut.. ; . . . . . . . . . u ~ 

G 

Delaware... . . .. . . . . . . 3 ~ 
Florida................ 3 
Georgia............... 9 

Illinois ................. lG Hi 
Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 13 
Iowa................... 81 S;I 
Kansas................. 3 •) 

I 

Ke~h,icky .............. l! .11: 
Lomsrnna . , . . . . . . . . . . . . , 1 17 

·I 

:uaine ................. H


'I 

4~ 

·uaryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 ·H 

:u~ss~chusetts.......... 121 1 
1'I1ch1gan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 
llI~n~es_ota:. . . . . .. . . . . . . ~I 4 
1'I1ss1ss1pp1. . . . . . • . . . . . . ,I 

:Missouri .............. 11 
· Xebmska ...........·... 3 
Xevada ................ 3 
:Ncw Hampshire.. . . . . . . 5 
:New Jersey............ 7 
Xew York............. 33 
Xorth Carolina . . . . . . . . 9 
Ohio .................. 21 
Oregon................ 3 
Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . 2G 
Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . 4 

5t 

3 

2 

~ 

21 
3 

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . G, 

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 
Texas................. ~ 
Vermont.............. t:> 
Virginia ............... 101 
West Virginia......... fi 5 


Wisco.nsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 

11 
7 

2 

3 
33 


G 
5 

3 

8~ 

91

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8~ 

4 

() 

10 

1 

8 

1 

. Total. ................317 104 40~ 33 


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TABLE OF THE BALLOTING BY ST.ATES. 


THIRD BALLOT. 

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STATES. 

Alabama.............. 


':t 

Arkansas .......· . . . . . . . ~ !


5:
California . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3 1 
Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . .. 6 6 I 
Delaware.............. 3· . , 1 I 
Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1 

1

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tfi~~~'t. : : : : :·. : : : : ::::: 1~ i~ I 81 I I 
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I

Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 _ ! 
Ken~~cky . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 1! 

I

Lomsuuia.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 , 1I 1 1 I

I' 

:Maine.................. · 71 1' 4~ 2·


l;I


)faryland...... .. . . . . . . 71 I !

t.i • 
~I~ss~chusetts.. . . . . . . . . 12 11 1 8

1 I

~Iich1gan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 

41 I I 1

:Minnesota. . . . . . .. .• . . . . 4 
:Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . i 7 3~ 
:Missouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1 5~ 11 I 1 
Xebraska............ .. 3 I

.:i 

Neva<la_..............~ . . 3 1 2 1· 
Xew Hampshire.......•. 5 3 l! I ! ! . 
New Jersey............ i 7 I I I 


:N"ew York............. 33 33 


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6 
Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 I , I I I 

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South Carolina......... G I 2 1 3('I r:I ' 

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 ,

1
1
1 
Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G 6 1\ 

I I 

1

Vermont . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 I I 0 1 

Virginia ............... 10 10 I · I 
":~st V~rginia. . . . . . . . . I I l 

8 

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5 
71 :5drni 
5 
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TABLE OF THE BALLOTING BY STATES. 
FOURTH BALLOT. 


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STATES. 

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Alabama.. ··...... 8~-\~1-~l\ ~_911·-·\~\J_\_:_,I g~\~i__JI~ p\i+i_-


... 
Arkansas... ... . . . _ _ ~ lt 
California . . . . . . . . 3 1

1

Connecticut . . . . . . u6[ I . ~ 1 I I

Delaware . ; . . .. . . . 3 ~ 
:Florid?-.... . . . . . . . 3 , 3 I I I 


1

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Indiana........... 13 13 1 I 
Iowa........ . . . . . . 81 · I 81 I 1I I 


~ansas........... 3 2 t ~I


I


1'..entucky.. . .. .. .. 11 11 

1

Lo~isiana......... 7 · I i I I ! 


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H 11' 

:M~ch1gan.. . . . .. . . . 8 I ~ I 
:Minnesota. . . . . . . . 4, I 4

I 

:l\I!ssissippi.. • . . . . .. 71 7 ·

I I I:M1ssoun . . . . . . . . . . 11 2 5 4 3

1

:Nebraska......... 3 · 3


I I 

Xevada......: . .. . 3 I 3 · · I 
NcwHampsb1re... 51 I 3 H 

' 
New Jersey....... 71 ' "' 7 
New York........ 33 I I <::> 31 1 
North Carolina. . . O " 

I 

2

~t~\?i~~i~·:·:·:·:·~· :i I ~1 1 261.

1 1 I

4 I

South Carolina.... 6 1 2 3 
Tennessee. . . . . . . . 101 1 
1 1 

1I I 

Texas............ 61 61 I 10 
. 


I 

11 .
~~~~~~t..:: ::::::: i& I 10 I 51 

West Virginia. . . . 51 I 5 I 1 ~ 
Wisconsin........ 8 -1-1-___1_ • 8 , I 

Total.. .... ·· ... · .I it. 43t 118t; 13 33 261 32,1 12 1al21-3

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11

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NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. 

TABLE OF THE BALLOTING BY STATES. 
FIFTH.BALLOT. 

Ill[ ~1~ ~ ~ tl~I~ [ E~ ~ 

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STATES. 

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..Alabama . . . . . . . .. . . . 

I 

8 
Arkansas . . . .•. . . . . . . 1 3 

1 
California. . . ... . . . .. . 1 3 

1 
Connecticut .. . . . . . . .. 6 . 
Delaware............ 3 
Florida.. : ........... 1 
Georgia............... 


9 

1ndii;ois... . . . . . . . . . .. 1G 
1n iana............. . 13 
lo\va................ 'I 8 

I 

I 

1 


Kansas............. 
Kentucky....... . . . ... 
Louisiana. .. . . .. •. •. . 
l\Iaine............... 
l\Iaryland ........... . 
:Massachusetts........ 


l\Iichigan...........· 1 


1\Iinnesota ........... 
l\l1SSISSIpl............ . 
l\Iissouri ............ . 
Nebraska............ 
Nevada............... 


2 

11 

7 

1

4~ 

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1 

11 

~1 

8 
4 

. 

7 

5~ 

3 

2 

New Hampshire.. ~ . . . 

HJ 3 

1 

New Jersey.......... 71


I 3 

New York........... 


I 

North Carolina. . . . ... 2~ 

1 

1 
8~!~~i"i·::::::.::::::: I 5~1 2~ 33

1' 
11ennsylvania . . . . .. . 1 26 
Rhode Island. . . . . . .. I I 

4 

South Carolina.. .. .. . 21 I 3 

Tennessee.... . . . . . .. 10 
i~;~~~~i:::::::::::: 6 I 

51 

Virginia . . . ... . . . . . . . 10 

I 
II 

West Virginia.. . . .... 5 

w;::.;i~·.::.·.·.-.·.:::: l-1-116 l""I~ 13 33J 21! 21! 1: mh11--I--1 


PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

TABLE OF THE BALLOTING BY STATES. 
SIXTH BALLOT. 


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Alabama. . . . .. . . . . 8~1 

Arkansas........ . 
California ....... . 
Connecticut....... 61 6 2 


Delaware......... 3 , 


3 
Florida........... 3 

I 

Georgia........... 91 


Illinois. . . . • . . . . . . . 16 
Indiana....... : ... 13 
Io\Ya............. sl 

Kansas........... 31 


Kentucky ......... 11 
J...ouisiana. . . . . . . . . i 
::Maine ........·.... 7 
::Maryland......... i 
l\fassachusetts..... 12 
l\Iichigan... .•..... 8 
:Minnesota........ 4 
:Mississippi. . . . . . . . 7 
:Missouri*·.... : ...• 11 
Nebraska .....••.• 3 
Nevada........... 3 
Newlfompshire... 5 
~ew Jersey....... 7I 
);ewYork........ 33 
North Carolina. . . . 9 
Ohio ............. 21 
Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . 3 
l'ennsylvania. . . . . 26 

Hhode Island..... 41 
,South Carolina. . . . 61 
·Tennessee. . . . . . . . 10 

·i~~<;~~i : : : : : : : : : ~I 

Virginia . . . . . . . . • . 10 
;west Yir~inia. . . . 5 

~Y_isconsiI~....... ·~1


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16 

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8 

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NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION, 

The Convention was opened in the usual manner on 'Vedncs<lay, and after 
the reading of the names of the National Executye Committee, the balloting 
was resumed. 

Our space permits us to give only a summary of the votes : 

rABLE OF THE BALLOTING BY STATES. 

SEVENTH IlALLOT 

1~1~1;o:~1r-1~1~1~ 

STATES. I~ I § I§: I ,~ '1 ~ IS: ~· 1 g: 

~------I~ f'U~I rIi If\i_ ~ 


Alabama...·................................. 8 


I I I I I I 

Arkansa~ ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 5 

Californ!a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 ~ I . 
Connecticut ........ ; .. · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 0 I

1

Delaware .............. · . · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · .' · · ·1 3 1 
1I I 
1

~~o~:g~.'.'.'.'.'.·.'::: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : I 8 I I 

i 

I.llii;iois................. · · · ·,···· .·...... ······1 1~1 1 · I 
Inchana........ ····· ························1 ,, I ' 
Io,va.................................. · .. · ·. 8 I 
Kansas....................................... 2 


~ 

J(entUcky ............................. · · . · · · 11, ... 


I I I 

Louisiana................... · .. · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 


~Iah1e............:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1~ 4~ 
1.Iaryland.•....................... · · . · · · · · · · G 


/ I I 

1.l~ss~chusetts. . . . . .. . . .. . . . . .. .. .. . . .. . .. . .. 1 11 

~~~~l~Ig:O~~ : : : : : : : : : : ·: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 4 I 

}.[!ssissippi. ....................· . · · · · · · · · · · · · 


1

4...3, I

}.I1ssour1 .................. · · . · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ~ 
Nebraska.........:............. ·.··········· 


~~~a~f.~~p~hh-~:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::1 i~! 31 

11 

New.Jersey..................•...··········· 


New York...........................·..... . 


7 

North Carolina...................· · · · · · · · · · · 
1 91 I


Ohio ........·.....••....................... ·· 21 
.... · · · · · · · · · · · · 3

Oregon ...............·......· 
Pennsylvania ...... ; .............. · · · · · · · · · · · I I


4

Rhode Island•.............. · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 6 
South Carolina ................ · · · · · · · · · ·· · · · 4~ 5~1 I 
Tennessee....•........ · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · "' 6 I I 


i~~~;;t·.: : : : : :: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 10 I I I I I 5 

~;~:nv'\;gi.~i~::: :: :: : : : : : : :: : : : . : : : ........·I 5 \ I s I J 
'\V1sconsm•.................... · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 


I I 

Total. ....... : ............................. jl3H 42~lr-6-12~ 12 ~30~ 


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p"nocEEDINGS OF THE 

TABLE OF THE BALLOTING BY STATE~. 
EIGHTH BALLOT. 


1~1~ i ~1t'-1~1~1~ 

STATES. ~ I~ ~ a[ I ~ § ~· ' ~ 

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.... . 1-· 1-·_·1----.


Alabama........ . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 8 


I 

Arkansas.................................... 


5 
California................................... 3~ l~ . 
Connecticut............................ ··. · · · I 6 
D~la~vare ....••••........................... 3 I 
Fiorida ....................................• 
Georgia..................................... 9 
Illi~ois.......· ............................'. . . 116 


1 

I 

Indiana........•••..........................I 3:i 
Iowa.............................\........... 811 · 
Jfansas...... :........·......•....., ....... .-. . 2· 


I I 

1 
1 
Ken~~cky......... .-... :........ ·: . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 
Louisiana......... ,......................... i 


I 

J.Iaine. .....•...................·. . . . . . . . . . .. . . 1~ 4~ · 


M.aryland....•••......................._. . . . . . . . 6 
Massachusetts............................... 1 11 
.llichigan • : ...........••..................... 


·Minnesota. . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 

M!ssissippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . 7 

Missoun ....•• ~............................. 5 i 


Nebraska.........;........................... 3 . 


Nevada..................................... 3 


New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1~ 3 

New Jersey................................. 1


I 

Ne'v York.................................. 
No:th Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4i · 1 
Ohio .......•.................•.........·.... 


·121 I ' · 1 
i 

Oregon ...................-. ................ .-3 


Pennsylvania...........•.................... 


Rhode Island..•.•.................••••.....·1 


I 

South Carolina .........•................... ~ 6 
Tennessee ................•....•........·. . . . 4~ 
Texas.. ; .........................· .. · · ·· · · · ·1 I 6 


Vermont.........·........•.................. · I 
Virginia...:·:._............................... . 9~, i 
'Vest V rrgin1a ................•.............·1 5 
'Visconsin................................... 


I 

· 

8

1 

l 

5

:l 

I 

13~~ r 

I 

4 

I 

5 

· 

8 

Total...•.••...••.......••••.•...........• /15o~l~-7---G -6I 12 


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NATIONAL DEMOCRA'rIC CONVfu~1'ION. 

TABLE OF .?-'HE BALLOTING BY ST.ATES. 
NINTH B..;\LLOT. 


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STATES. 

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Al:iban1a...............•...•...........· · · · · 8 


I I 

Arkansas .............•........·.·.········· 
California...... . . . . . . . • . . . . . . • • • . . . • . • • • • • . 3~ 1~ 
Connecticut..•.........·•..•...•.•....•... · · · · · I G 
Dela\vare .............•..............•......, 3 


Florida ......••..........·· ....•...•...•..•··· ·'1 


Georgia..................................... 9 
16


Illinois ................ · · • · · · · • · • • · • · · · • · • · · I · 


I1.u1iana . ; .............•.•...•.•........· · • · . 3 , 
Iowa..................•....•·.....•••..••. ··· 81 · 
Kansas ...............•••.•.....••.... ···.••· 2 


I 

1

1

Kentucky•.......•......•..••...... ········•·•• 1! 


1

Louisiana.....................••••••... · · • · · • ' 1 


• I
1.-Iaine . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . • . . . . • . . • . . . . . . . 1~ 4~ 

1..laryland•......•........•••••. ; .. · · · · · · · · • · · 1 4~ 


llassachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . • . • . . 1 

-1 1 
ltlichigan......... •.....t ·· . · ·· · · ·· · • · · · ·· · ·· 


4

1.linnesotn..............•...•••..•. · · · · ... · · · · · 


I I

Mississippi.~.......... · · • • • · · · · · · · · · · · · · • · · · · l 


1 
~Iissouri .............. · • • • • • • · • · · · · · · · · • · · · 


I . 
Nebraska.•.......... · · •·•· • · · ~ ·• • • • • • • • · · • • · · ~' 


Nevada......•......•...•••••.-.·············· 

31 
New Hampshire.........•.. · • · · • · • · • • • · • ..• • ~~ j 
New Jersey.........•... •·•··• ... •·•···•·•••• ·1 
New York..........•...•.••••··••••••···•·· . 


I

1 1

N o~th Carolina........ • · · · · · · · · • · · • • · • · · · • · · 21 


g~~~~~•:::::::::..: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 3 

I 

Pennsylvania•............... · · • · · · · • • · · · • · • · · I 
Uhode Island..........•· · · · · · · · • • · • • · · • • · · · · G 
South Carolina.............. ·•···••••····••·· 4~ I 
Tennessee .. ~ ............· · • · · · • · · · · · • · · · ~ • · · G 
Texas..................•••••·•·•••••··•••••· 
Vermont .....•........ · • • · • • • • • • • • · · • · • · • • • 9~ ~ 
Virginia.............· . · · · ~ ··· · · • • • · • · · · • • • • ··· 5 


_'Vest Virginia ......... ·········'··········· · I 


8 

'\Visconsin... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • . . • • ..• · · • · • • • • 

. 

Tot~l........: ..........••••• .'•••.....•••• 144 3H 71_u_ 


5~ 

12 

5 

3 

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I 

8 
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1

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5 


PROCEEDINGS OF TUE 

TABLE OF THE BALLOTING BY'STATES. 
TENTH :UALLOT. 


~ 2

STATES. 

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---.


1

A1aban1a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • . • . . . . . • . . • • . . • . . • . • . . 

8 
Arkansas........................................ 
California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . • • • . . • • • • • • • • • . . . • • • . 3~ 


1~ 
Connecticut.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . 3 
Dela"·are ... ,......... . • • . • • . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . • . • 3 

fif2iL·:·:·:·.:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:::::::::::::::::: : : :::: : :::: l~ 

In<liana. . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 

Io,va...... .. . . . . . •. . . . . • . . . • • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 

Kansas.............·......•.•....•••.•...•........ 2 


t~;~~;_·:·:·:·:·:·._:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:::::::::::: :.:: : : : : : : : : : : : : 1t 

41 

J.farylan<l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . • . . . • . . . 4~ 

Massachusetts.. . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . • . . . . • • • • • • . . . . . . . 1 

11 

J.fichigan ... ;'........•....·.•••••••..••..••..•.... 
~linnesota.. . . . . •. . . . . . .. . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . • • . . • . . . . 4 
Iississippi......•......•...•••..••...•.•...·• . • • . . 7 
~Iissouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • • • • . . . . . . . . . . • • . • . . . . . . . . 4 
Nebraska ......•.....~ . • • . • • . . . • • . • . •. . . • • . • • . . . . . 3 
Neva<la......•.............•.•.. . :... .•••.... ... . 3 
New Hampshire.. . . . . . . . . . . • • • . . • . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . I~ 

3 

Ne'v Jersey......•.....•'. .•••••..........•..•••.• 


Ne"· York•.......·.....•.•.•..·......•...•....•... 
N o~th Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . • . . . • • . . . . . . . . . • • • . 2~ 


g~~~~~.:....:::.::: :: : : : ·. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 2~ 

Pennsylvania ..........••.••.......••.•....••..•. 


Rhode Island.. 
South Carolina. : : : : : : : : : : ; : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : · 


G 
Tennessee .............•....••••.•.•....••••...• ·1. · 4i 

~~~:o.~t·. :·. : : : '. :·. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 

G 
Wrgin1a ......,........•••, ....••...•..... , , •..• ,I 9~ 

! 

n ...~st V~rginia.....· ... , • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • . • • . • • • • 5 
n lSCOns1n, ............•, • , •••.•• , , • , , , • , , , , •• , • , 

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3 

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8 
5 

i 

33 

4 

5 

I 

8 1 

Total..........................................~ 147~ M_7___G 121-~


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NATIONAL DEllOORA.TIC CONVENTION, 

TABLE OF THE BALLOTING BY STATES. 

ELEVENTH BALLOT. 

I i· ~ I ~ ~ I I f. i 

STATES. 

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--· 

Connecticut•....•••.....•..••••• ••••• ••· •.. ••· .. · 3 
Dela,vare .•.•......•........•........:. •••••••. . •. 3 
Florida.".....'....•...........•..••.•.......•.•.... 

Tifi~g~~·:::::::.:::·.:.::::·::::::::::::::::::::::::: l~ 

Indiana.....................••••.••... ·•··•• .• •.• • 3 
Jo,va......•..................•.......•••· ••• · •••. 8 .,


2

Kansas ......•.••••• · · · · ·· · · •· · · · •· ••••· · · · ••· · · · .

1

Ken~~cky ..............•....•... ·•·••• ··•··•••· •· 71


Lou1s1ana................•..•......•........•.... 
l\Iaine..........................•.••••. •••••· ... . . l~ 


4~ 
l\Iaryland ..................·•..•..••.. •· · •· · · · . . . 4~ 
l\Iassachusctts•...............•..••...........· ._. . 1 

11 
l\Iichigan ......· ·· · ·· •· •••• ••· •••••· ••· · · · · · · · · · 4

l\Iinncsota ...........•....· .•..••.... · · · •,· · · · · · · 
l\Iississipp1 ...........................•··. ••.. · · · . . 7 


4 

1

l\Iissouri .....•.... ·· · · · · ·· •~ ••·•· · · · · · ••••••· •· · 3 
Nebraska ......•· ....···········•··•······.·.····· 3 

I 

I 

~

~~~;'lii~~i;shi~~.°.'.:::::::::·:::::::::::::::::::::: H 

2~ 

Ne'v Jersey......•.......... ·············;······· 


7 
Nc'v York ......•.·..... ··················:······· 
North Carolina....... · · · · ·· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · •· · · 21

Ohio........................••.•.......••.•~..... 3 


Oregon.............. ... ·· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 
Pennsylvania•...........· . ·.. •· •.· · · · · · · · · · · · ••· · · 


4

Rhode Island .............···· · · · •· •· · · ••· ••· •••••• 


6

SouthCarolina.•.......... · • · · · · · ••••· · · · ••••· ••· · 4~ 
Tennessee................ · · •••· ·· •• •· · •• •· · •· · •· 


6

Texas••••••..... ·:.·············•··············· 

5 

Vcrn1ont.............·· .....••.. · ••· · · ·•· · ·•· · · · · · !}~ 


l 

:J.

Virginia ..........· .•. ······••••·••••·••••••••··· 5 


"\Vest Virginia..... ......···••·•·········•··•···· 

8 
"\Visconsin.......................................... -------------


~ 88 

--~ 


3 
3 

1 

1 

8 


PROCEEDINGS OF 'fH1' 

!

TABLE OF THE-BALLOTING BY STATES. 

' 

-TWELFTH BALLOT. 

§l[I~ ~s.1~ ~ 

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STATES. 

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Alabama........... ····.····· .. ····.... ~ 
Arkansas......... · · · · · · · · · · · . · · · · · · . . . . 


California........ · .. · . · · · ........ ·...... 
Connecticut ......... ~ ..· • · · ..•.... ~ ... : 
Dcla,varc. . . . . . . . . • • . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . • . . . 
l!~loi·ida..........~ ....••.....•.......... 

fifi~Jf;~·. ·.·.·.·.·...·...::::::::::::::::::::::: 

Indiana ..........••.•.................·I 
Io"·a.. ...• . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • • • . 
Kansas................................. 
Kcn~~cky.......................•· .....~ 
Lou1s1ana ..................-. . . . . . . . . • . . 
:Maine............ : .......,.. .. . . .. ..... . . 
l\Iaryland.. . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
:Massachusetts . . . . • • • . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
l\Iichigan.. : . · ...................• ; . · ..... 
l\Iinnesota ...................~ • . . . . . . . . . 
l\Iississipp i.... . . . . . . . • . . . . .. . . . . • . . . . . . . 
l\Iissouri.. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
Nebraska ............................. . 
Nev:ula ................·....•••••...••.. 
N cw Hampshire.. . . .. .. . . • . . . . . .. . . . . • . 

·Ne'v .Jersey.............:............... 
Nc,vYork•.......................•.....


1 
North Carolina................•......... 
Ohio ................................... 
Oregon...............•.........•.~..... 
Pennsylvania............: .•••.•.....•... 
Ithode Island...................•....•.. 
South Carolina ......................... . 
Tennessee.............................. 
Texas.................................·• 


8 

3 
3 

3· 

1~ 

3 

821 

11 
7 

H
H
1 
4! 
1 

4 
7 


-4~ I 

1 ~ 

21 
3 

·4 

V~n:10.nt ....................•....... ~ .... i 
V1rg1nut... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . • . ... • •. . _v~.I 
West Virginia. . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. • . . . . 5 
'Visconsin..............••..·•...•...... ·1 

Total.,,.,,, .. , ......... ,.,,.,.. ~, u.u 145~1 


I 
I 


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2 

7 

6 

o 

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NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTIONr 

TABLE OF THE BALLOTING BY STATES. 
THIRTEENTH BALLOT. 

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 

~ ~ i ~ ~ ~ 
______._______.____,__@_ r ~ ~ f l 

ST.ATES. 

Alabama................................ 8 
Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
CCalifoernti1.acu't" . .. . .. . .. .. ...........: . .. 33 j . 


onn c .. .. .. .. . . .. . .. . .. .. .. .... .. 

Dela,vare.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 
Florida................................. 1 
Georgia................................ 1~ 
IllinoIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 
Indiana................................ 3 
Io,va................................... 8 
Kansas.................................. 2 
Ken~t~cky.................. .. . . . . . . . . . . . 11 
Lou1s1ana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 
~Iaine ...............•....... ... . . . . . . . . . 1~ 4~ 
ltiaryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4~ 
Massachusetts.................." . . . . . .. 1 11 
ltlichigan ....•.......................... 
Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 
l\I!ssissippi ..........: ............., . .. . . 7 
1tI1ssour1 . . . . . . • . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 

, 
Nebraska................... :........... 3 
Nevada .................. :............. 3 
New Hampshire... . .. .. . . .. .. .. .. .. . . .. H 2 

1 

Ne,vJersey............................. I 7 
Ne'v York......... :...•................. 
North Carolina.........~ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 


Ohio ............................·.. ·· · 21 1· 
Oregon....: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 · 
Pennsylvania." ...........~ ............ . 


4

Rhode Island......................·· .. ~ 


I 

South Carolina. . . . . .. .. .. ... ..•.. . . . .. .. 61 

Tennessee. . . . . . • • . . . . . . . . ...........· . 4t 4~ 


6 I

Texas ..........•••. ···················· 


Vermont.............................. · I 
Virginia........................ . . . . .. . 101' 


West Virginia .. . . .. .. .. .... ... .. .. .. .. . 4 · 

8 

"\Visconsin ............•.... ~ ............ 134ll 4s~l-7 4!, ~3 


! 

"Tota} ...:, .. , ....•......,· ......••.•. •. :: :i u 

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3 

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10 


8 

6 

33 

1 
5 
1 

89 ·-


1 

1 

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PHOCEEDINGS OF 'l'HE 

TABLE-OF TI-IE BALLOTING BY STATES. 
FOURTEENTH BALLOT. 


~ ~ ?1~1~

I § g 8 § [ 

STATES. 

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§ ~ ~I~

=

I

1-:1-:_: _: _: 
~~~~1~~~1;;~" ·.....".. ·... : : : : : : : ·. :: : : : : : : ...: : : : : .....: : : : .· ~ : : : : ~ ·. : : : : : : !8·I I . 'II 5 

California............. : ..................... :. . .. . . . . . . . . . . 4 1 
Conncetieut....·..·.... · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·: · · · · · · · · · · · " · · · · · · ·'. · 31 ··3 

' D~la··'varc ........ .' .......... ·: .. : ......................... 3i


I 

F1011cla........ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 


1~~i~~l:::::::: :·:::::::::::::::: ~ :-: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : I 1~ I 
Indiana................... · · .. · ... · · · · · : · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · : · · · 1 3 

lO\Va .•.•.. · ·. • • · .......... · · .....•. · .. ··• •• • • • • • • • •...... . 81. 


J(ansas...................................,......•.. :........ ~ · 


~~~~:~1~;~:: ::: : : : : : : : : '.:::::::::::::::·:::·::::::::::::::::: 1~ I 

l\Iaine ..............................·............... .:. . . . . . 1i 4~ 


l\[arylancl. . . . . • • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 

~fassachusetts ..................... ·i· .....................'. • • 1 1 11 
l\Iiehigan •...............•................................. 
l\Iinnesota......................................•.......... 4 


l\lississippi ........... ·.. · · ·.. · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·· · · · · · · · · · · · · Z 


l\Iissouri ...... ~ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • • • • . '± 2

1 1

Nebraska.................................................• I I 
Nevada................................................... ·. 3 
~cwHampshire.......................................'. . . . 1~ · 2


1

:Nc\V Jersey...........1••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ·1 I I 7 
Nc\V York.................................•............. 
No~th Carolina................................."............ . g 


~~:;~,~~;~;;;;;;::·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·::::::::::::::::::::::::::J2~ I I 

IU1odc Islan~l. ............ ,............................... ·1 I I 


8ouih Carolina.............. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . er 
Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..·. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . • • . • . • . . . . . . 4!: 5~ 
1.'cxas.....................................·........... : .....I o 
Vern1ont.................................................... 1 
Vin.dnia ............ : ..........~ . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . • • . • . . . . . • . . 1 10


''rest Virginia............... '.............·.. • . . . . . . . . . . . . • ·1 I 
'Visconsin.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . • . . . . . . . . . 8 

3 
2 

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1 

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I 

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8 I 

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+otal .. ~ ..•...•...........'••.. :.. ....•.........•., .•....... 130 5G I 7 I13 S·H · 




NATIONAL DE~IOCRATIC COl\"'VENTION. ·43. 

TABLE OF 
THE BALLOTING BY STATES. 
F1FTEENTII B.ALLO".r. 

1~1~1~1tl[lf

STATES. 

lf1§1~1t·~1~

1-;_I f 
I_".__ -1 ~ 

Alahan1a. : ...... ; ..............· · · · · · .· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 8 


I .A.rkansas ............................·· . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 
California . . . . . . . ......: ......-. . . . . . . . . . • • . • . . . . . . . . . 3 1~ 

3 3 I

Conncctict1t .......... · ··•· · · · · · · · · · · • · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · • · I 1


])cl:'nvaro ............... •.............................. 3 1 ., 
l''lori<l::t ............. .' ..............•.........· .. · .,... · · · · ·1 ~ 


i~fi~:~~'t:::.-~· :: :·_-................-:: ::: : : : : : : : ::: ::::::::: : : : :: : l~ .·I 1 


Indiana ........................: ..............•....... 3 I I O~ 
lo\V::t ..........•. ,., ....•••••••••. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 8 


! 
2~

](ansas ...........d 
I 


:l 

1 11

J{entucky..........·.......••.......... · · · . · · · · · · · · · · · · · · . I 
Lo~1isian•.a................•,......••.•. ~ .. · · · · · · · · · · · ·• · ·r~ 1 : 
1\[a1no......·•. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . -4~·1. ·1 ·1 

2~ 

~}~~~~~~~~s~tt~·;·:. '.·.·:". ·:. ·.·:::::::::.::::::::::::::::::::: 1 i~ 11 

1\Iichigan... ~ ..........; ........· · · · · · · · •· · • • · · • • · · · : · I 


·8 

4

1\Iinncsota...................••.............. ·•· · · ··· · · · I I 
1\Iississippi .........· ........ ~ ..............· · ~ · · · · · · · · · · 7 I . ·.


1 

.,

1\lissouri ................, .·•••........... ~ .. · · .. · · · · · · 5 


d

Nebraska............. ·..... ······.-.·····..,.············· '} 
Ncvada ........... · · ·· · · · · · · · .-. • • • • • · · · · · · ....'. . . . . . . 1 31


d 

N O\V IIan1pshiro............. · · · • · · · · • · · · · · · · · · · · •· · · ·· · ~ 


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,,._,

~~~~ ~~~-~}~·.·: : : : : : : : : :: : ·.·. ·. ·.·.·.: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : I . 7 

North Carolina ........ · · · · · · · · · · · • • · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ., '>I O I . 
Ohio.................... ···········••·••··•··········· ....'} 


~~~~~;~i;~~i~·.:::::::.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 2G I I 4

oJ 

IU1odc Island............ : ...· · · · · • · · · · · · · •· · · · · · · · · · · · G I I ~outh Carolina......··.···························."··· 4~ I 5~ 

T~~~~~s.~~·.·.·:.·.·:.·.'.·.·:.·:.·.::::::::::::::::;:::::::::::: G I I 

5 
V?n~io.nt. . ...:·. · . ,. : ·· · · · · ·· · • · • · · · ·· · · • • · · · · · · · · · · · JO I I 

~?~~:1v-~~·g~~1~:·.·.·.·...-..:::. :~ : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 4 I ·1 8 \ l 

I 
~Visconsl~l •.... ·.·. ·.·" ... ········-· ...........•..._. ....1120~, rn~ 71 5~112 I 82~ 

Total...... . . . . . . .. . . . . . . • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • . . . • . . . • . 



PROCEEDINGS OF Tll:E! 

TABLE OF THE BAL~OTING BY ~TATES. 

SIXTEENTH BALLOT. 

ST.ATES. 

Alaban1a........................·.··· ...•.......~ ~ .~--:::-_ 
Arkansas............................................. 
California .........................•....•.......•••... ~ . 
Connecticut..................... ~ . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . 
Dehnvare.... .. .. . . . .. . . ..... .• . .. . . . . . . . ..• ....... ... . 
Florida ......•........', , .. :••••................. ~ . . . . . 


iffi~~1~a.'.~.'.'.'.\.: ·.:·. ·. ·. ·. ·.:: ·.::::::.:: : : ·.::::::::::::: :·:::: 1~~ 

Indiana ...............................•........ ~ . . . . . 3 
Io,va .............. : .............. ~ .......·... . . . . . . . . . s· 
Kansas ..........................••.....•.....•......· 


.~i~i~1i~~L:::.·:. ·. : : : : : :·:::::·: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :: : : : : : : 11 

Maine ........................•..•..........-........... 
Jl.faryland................., . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . • . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . 
Jl.I~ss~chusetts.........•.............•........·,.... :.... 


~fj~~1!s~~~·::.".'.'. :: .':'."."::·.::::::::::::::::·::·:::::::::::: 

]l.Iississippi.............•...••.••.......·· ......••...... 
Jl.Iissouri. . . ......................................... ~ 
Nebraska..............•....•..........•.....···;····· 
Nevada ................ , .........·..................... 
NewHmupshire... : .........•••..............•. ~ •... :. 


~~~~ ¥:~:::::::::: : : :: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :-:: : : : :·:::~: 

North Carolina ...................................... . 
Ohio........................•.........•...••........: 
Oregon............. ~ .......•...•............... ~-.... 
Pennsylvania .... :......•....•'• •........,. ... ~ •......... 
Rhode Island.................•••••...•••••• _.......... . 


South Carolina.................................· ..•.•..· · 1· 


Tennessee ....................•...•.•.•...·•• • . . . . . . . . . 
Texas ...................•.···.·················:····· 


Vermont................•....•...•..........~........ 


1~ 

1 
1 

4 

5 

3 

H 

21. 
3 
M 

l1 

Virginia....................................•........:1 
West Virginia.'........••••••.•...•..·...•..•...••••. : . . 3~ 
'Visconsin ..............••..•...•...•.••.....•.••..... 


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r 
;-Ir 0 

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3 
3 

1 

5 

I 
I 
1~ 

3 

2 

6~ 

1 

2 

7 

4~ 

1 

5~ 

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8 

7 

3 
3 

3 

3 

1 

33 (9 

26 
4 
6 , 


6 
· 


5 

10 1 

8 

70~

1 5~ 

12

Total........•......... ; ••..••........•............: . 107~ 113~ 


l 


NATIONAL DEltoCRATrC CONVENTION'. 

_,. 

r 

TABLE OF THE BALLOTING BY. STATES . 

./ . 

SEVENTEENTH BALLOT 

?lg~~ II?' ~1~1~1~1~

~ \.. rr. 0 ~ ~ ~ a 

.ST.ATES. 

~fir [ ~1~1= I? 

. i;_ l_I .~ _i__ _I_ _l_I__: 

Alabama..............•...................... 


85 I 

Arkansa1' .......................•.· ... · · ··· · · 
California........................•........-. · 3 I H, ~, 


Connecticut . • • • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ I 3 i .~, I I

1

Dela,vare ...............•'• ...................1 1 ~ 
Florid?-·· ..·............. ·..... ·.· · · · · · :·· · ··· · ·1 


9

gfi~~~~·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.::::::::::-::::::::::::::::, 3~~1 I ~I lb I 

Inchana............•......................... ·1 · 1 
Iowa........................................ 8 ~r: I I -2 
Kansas ..................................... · · .., I ~ 


1

~1~a~1·nf~ei~~~:::::::::::::.".".::::·::::::::::::::: 5 
H ~J 11 l

11 
.J.l < • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •.• • • • • • • • • • -161 I I 

1 

~~~~~~l~~~t~·.•.•• •. ·. •• ·• ·. ·.:·• ·• •. ·. ·. ·.·•·• ·.·.·•·,::::::::: 1 
~Iichigan ...~· ................:· ·.· · ··· · ··· · ·1~I.in';le~ot~............. · · ·· · · ·· · ··· · · ·· · · · · · · 2 2 1 

M~SSISSIJ?pl•• ; •••••.•••• '........... • . • • • • • • • • 


47 

~I1ssour1..............'............ · · .· · ··· · · I 
Nebraska.................."·.··~············· 
NNevacla...........·...................· ·· ···· · · 31 5
.r e'v Hampshire .. ~ .......... :.... ···.······· I ... I 


Ne,v Jersey.....'...........•.•• ,......•..... · ' 
. N:e'v York........................ · ·. ·· ·.· · · ·
( North Carolina................•..···.. ········ 91_I9 I 


Ohio ................ ,.•............. ··.······· 
Oregon ...........·................. ·.······· 3 


90

Pennsylvania ......·· -~ .......·....; . · · ... · · ··· · · 1-"' I I 
Rhode Island ........... · ·· ·· · · · · · · · · · · · • · · · · u 


8 

7 i 
I33 
4 I 

' South C.arolina ....... •,• ......•.• ........... •.. 4~ r .5~1 I 
~:~:~s.e_e::::::::::::_::~::~:::::::.:::::::.::: ::I 6 "'1' 511 

Vermont......................··············· 


~;~:n-{;\;gi~fu::::: : : : : : :: : : : : : : . :: : ~ ::_: : : ~ : : I.1 
10 
3 I ,I I I 
8 , . I I 

1V1scons1n.... ~ ......................· · · · · ·.· · · ________________ 
· · · I ,...o~ 137~1 7-I G 12 1· so i 

·3

Total.................................· .. ·· 1 :ii :: 



·PROCEEDINGS OF 'TIIE. 

TABLE OF THE BALLOTING BY STATES.

. . 

EIGIITEENTff.BALLOT. 

. ' 

STATES•. 
~I ~ ·1 ;o I~ ~ ~ ~·* ~ ~ 
GI~ 
~ .·1 0w 8 
0 :::::: 
p 
;::::. ~ [~Ji 0 
__i__: _:\!.____ 
Alahanut...·............·. . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 I Arkansns ..................... ~ .......~.. . . . . . 5: · 
California , ............. ." .......... ~ .. . . . . . . . . . 1~ 3 
Connecticut.................····.··;··········· 3 3 I 
Delaware·..........•.......................... 
1 
1 . 2 I 
l"lorida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... · \I I 
(-fc.org_i~................... ·,·................. 2 I I . Illlno1s ................•••................... 
~~~~·~!1 .~ : : : : : : : : : ~:::::: ~: : :·::::::::::::::: : : . f I 
1\'ansas ................... : ..... ~ .........·. 1 I 
I\'cntucky:............................·'· ..... 
1 
4~ 4~ 
J,ouisiana, ..... / . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 7 · ' 
~f~!.~~fa·1;<l:. ·. ·. ·. ·. ·.·:·.:: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : cit -1~ I 
l\Iassaclmsetts ............. :.... : .....·......~ .11 I . 
l\.I1chigan......•.. _............•.......·....... · I 
l\I!m~cs_ota................... i. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 1· I 
~H~~~~~;r~).1 ::.·~·:::.::::::::::·:::::::·::::::::::1 ~ ··I 
Nebraska......••.......·...:................. ·1 I · · 
Ncvacla .................................•.... 3 I 
1 
1 
N.cw Hmnpsliiro ...... J • ••••·••••••••••••••••~. • 3~ 1 · 
New .Tcrsol.· . . I :3 ~ · :nNc,vYo;kJ ·· · · · ·· · · · · · · · · · · · • · · · · · · · · ·-· · · · · · '"'.I -
North Car~ii~1~:::.·.:::::::::::::·.:::::::: :. : : ; !) 
Ol.1io ....·....•.....••• ~ •.....•...•••....~ .. .'. 21 I I 
~~~1¥i~1\.~·~: .....:. . . . . . .... . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2G 3 ' I . .) \ Ia................................ 41 
Hhodo Island... ·....................... :; ... . 
South Carolina........~ .......·..... ~ ....... :. ' G • I 
lG 
10 (, 
2 
2 
I·I 
~~~~~~soc ............•...............•....·., G 10 I 
~~~:~li~~i··~i.:: ·. ~ ·:.·.-.·.·.·::::::::.·:::::::::::::::: 10 I I 51 
W1·~t r'· :,~: ·: ....... ................·-···.... I 5 I 
.· "\n....,n11a.:····························· , , I 1 I 
"'T1scousin............................ "....... 1 · I I 8 I ·-
1 
( 
1 
i 
----_____,_ -------


'Total. .. : ........·.... :."..... .' ...·.. , ....... 144~ 5G~· ;;~.IO .12 87 -6. •3 



_NATIONAL · DE...'\IOCRATIC CONVENTION. 

Thus closed ·wednesday, the fourth day of the-Democratic National Convention. 
Eighteen ballots had been taken, ap1xirently without the slightc~t approach. 
to any definite result. . 

A general an~iety bega:n· to be felt_ throughout the country, and there were· 

fears that nothing at all would be accom1)lishell 
. It was plain that no candidate, who had already been voted upon, conhl 
concentrate the requisite number of votes.. There was a certain point, which 

several reached, (which "·as still far short of what was required,) but beyoncl 
";hich none could pass. 
It was 'be~oming plain that a new candidate was necessary, in order to Imr-· 
monize and fuse the difforent clements. 
RtJt wl10 was he to he? 
This was the question :which. tens of thousands asked each other,_'on Thursday, 
July D,. when tl~e fifth day of the Co~vention ·opened. 
l\Iany" supposed that the name of Salmon P. Chase would be prc.sente<l ttt the 
last hour, and that the Convention wonkl unite upon him .. 
Rut all within "•'ere deeply ai1.xious, foi· they realized that the cye.'5 of the 
country wc1:c fixed upon thc1i1, and. that'momentous issues were at :;take. 
The Conve1i,tion opened in tf10 usual manner, with pn~yc1• by the Uev. Dr. 
Plummer, of So~1th Qarolina. . .. 
· Before the nineteenth ballot was taken, ~Ir. Vallandigham rea<l ·the following: 


CIXCIXX.ATr; ,July 2, 18G8. 
WASIIINGTON :McLEAN, 'Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York. . · 


11ly Dear Sir: You know better th~n any one the feelings arnl principles which 1mve 
guided my conduct since the suggestion of my name for the Pre8idcntial nomination. 
. Yon know that while I_ covet the good opini01i of my eountrymen,.atH~ woul<l feel an 
hor~c;:.;t pritle jn so distingi1ighed a inark of their conlideucc, I do llot dcHire it at the 
c~pense of one single electoral votc-(grcat applau8c )_:_or of the least di:;turhanee of 
the hanilony of our party. I conf'ider the success of the Dcniocratic party in tl.1e next 
clect~on of far greater import::mee than. the gratitkatiou of any pcrsoual.muhitiou, howevci
· pure and lofty it might be. (Loud chccrR.} 


If, therefore, at a~1y time a name Hlwll he :-uggcstcd whid1, in the opinion of youn;clf 
aJHl those friends. who have ~hared mir ~onfidcncc, shall he stronger before the eountry, 


,or whicl1 can more thoroughly unite our own ·party,· I beg that you "'ill inst:mtly {vithdraw 
my name, and plcclge t~' tlie Gou)·cntio1i my hearty ·~mil zealous and acth·c :u1)port 
for its nomiue·e. -· ' Very truly yours, -· 

. . . . -. . . GEOIWE IL PENDLETOX. 


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The nineteenth ballot was then taken with the follow_ing, result: 

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TABLE OF THE. BALLOTING' BY STATES. 
NINETEENTH BALLOT. 



9 

16 
13 
8 

1 

2 
3 

t 

,3t

7 
H 

ST.ATES. 
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2t 

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1 3

3 

i

12 

8 

I 

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2_~

1 

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7 

10~

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3 
3 

4~ 

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7.' 

33 

9 

21 

(

1 
26 

6 

10 

6 
5 

*One not voting. 



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A recess of fifteen minutes was now taken, when the Convention proceeded 
to the twentieth ballot. 

TABLE OF THE BALLOTING BY STATES. 

TWENTIETH BALLOT. 

STATES. 

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California ......................· ·. · .. · · · · · · • · · · · 
Connecticut....................• · . · .. · . · · · · · · · · · · 
Dela,vare ............................••· ·:· · · · · · · 
Florida...........·...... · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·· · · · 


~l~l~I ~ ~ ~13l J~ 2I~ 8-~· ~ I~ 

fi~i~gl:"""·.·."""::·...·.:: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 

i~~:~.~'.'.·. ·. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : ·...·.·.'.'.:: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : I 

I· 
I· 
l{ansas ..........•... · · · · · · · · · · · · · • · · · · · ········I 
Kentucky* .............. · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · •· · · ·1 
Louisiana................. ·····.················· 
1\Iaine ............. · .. ·· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 
1\Iaryland .................· ·· ... · ·· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 
)!assachusettst ..............•.... ·.. · · · · · · · · · · · · · 
lilichigan ............... · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 
1\Iinnesata ...........· . · . · · .. · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 
1\Iississipp1............... · · · .... · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·. · 
~Iissouri ...... ....... · · · · · · · · · ··· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 
Nebrnska ............. · · · · ·· · · · · ·· · · · · · · · · · · · ·· · · 
Nevada............. ···· ...... ···················· 
New Hampshire ............· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 


~~; ~~~~::: :::~::: ::-. : : :: :::: :: ::::::::: :::: ::

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North Carolina............· · · · · · · · ··· · · · · · · · · · · · · · 
Ohio.............................·.·············· 


~~~~~~i~·~~i~'.: : : : : : .........·.......: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 


Rhode Island ............· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 
·South Carolina........... · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · . . 
Tennessee...... ·· ... · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 
Texas........... ································ 
Vern1ont.............. ·. · · · ·· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 
Virginia .............. ··························· 1 


'Vest Virginia. . . . . . ..... · · ••• • · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 
''risconsin........· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 

Total ............ · .. ························ 


* 7' not voting.
t N'ot voting. 

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16 

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12 

121 

13 

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6 


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3 


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5

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3 

11 

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10 

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33 ' 

10 

26 
4 


6 
10 
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5 

10 

5 
8 



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TABLE OF THE BALLOTING BY STATES. 
TWE:NTY-FIRST BALLOT. 

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Alaba1na........ .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 I ·1 f I 1· I 

~\.rkansas.............................. . 
California.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3 


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Connecticut ............................ · G I I I I 
Dela\Yare................................ . 3 I I . . I 


}'lorida................................ .1 3 


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!, 1· ii. 

Indiana ................................I 
IO\YU....... . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I I I 


Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . I 2 I . 

Ken~t:cky.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
Lou1s1ana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
l\Iaine................................. · 1 
l\Iaryland.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
l\fassachusetts . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
7 
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2 
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1I 4 
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1 
1 
1 
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l\I!chigan.............................. ·1 
::\I1nnesota.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
:Mississippi.. . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 
l\Iissouri.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 I ~ 
7 
6 
I 8 
3tII4 
I I . II I I Xebraska ............................. . 
Xevada............................ .. . . I 3 
3 
:New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II 4t 
Xe'v Jersey............................. 
xe,vYork.............................·1I 
Xorth Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 
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Pennsylvania .............· · . · · · · · · · · · · · .2G 
Rhode Island.......................... : 
South Carolina.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G I 
Tennessee...................: .......... , ~t 5 
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I 4 
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7331 1 
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West Virginia..........................1 
I 10 I 
II 
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I 51 
5 
I 
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III II 

\Visconsin ..................... ; ....... 1


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At the conclusion of the twenty-first ballot, it wus apparent to all that the· 

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lauor was in vain. Nothing at all had been accomplished. Everything was 
at a dead-lock. The Gordian knot wus still uncut, when General McCook of 
Ohio, rose and said: ' 

:Un. CIIAIR:llAX: I arise at the unanimous request and demand of the dele<Tation from 
Ohio, and with the consent and approval of every public man in the Stat~ includinO" 

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the Hon. George H. Pendleton, to again place in nomination against his inclination, but 
no longer against his honor, the name of Horatio Seymour, of X ew York. (Rousing 
cheers and long-continued applause.) Let us vote, }.fr. Ohairman and gentlemen of the 
Convention, for a man whom the1Presidcncy has sought, hut who has not sought the

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Presidency. (Applause.) I believe in my heart that it is the solution of the problem 

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which has been engaging the minds of the Democrats and conserrntive men of this 
nation for the last six months. ("Good, good.") I believe it wili have a solution which 
will drive from power the Vandals who now possess the Capitol of the nation. (Applause.) 
I belim·e it will receive the unanimous assent ancl approval of tlie great belt 
of States from the Atlantic-:Xew York, :Xew Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Incliann.,. 
l\IicMgan, Illinois and :Missomi, and away 1Y"est for quantity-to the Pacific Ocean.(
Applause.) I say that he has not sought the Presidency, and I ask-not demand-I 
ask that this Convention shall demand of him that, sinking his ow11 inclination and the 
well-known desires on his part, he shall yield to what we believe to be the almost unanimou.'
3 wish and desire of the delegates to this Conve1~tion. (Great applause and three 
cheers.) In my earnestness and enthusiasm, I had almost forgotten to cast the twentyone 
votes of Ohio for Horatio Seymour. (Tremendous excitement, and nine cheers for 
Horatio Seymour.) 

The President (Hon. Horatio Seymour) here advanced to the front of the 

stage, and, as soon as the enthusiasm would permit of his being heard, ad


dressed the Corrvention. 

SPEECH OF GOVERXOR SEY~IOUH. 
GENTLEJIE~ OF THE CONVENTION: (Cheers)-The motion just made by the gentleman 
from Ohio excites in my mind the most mingled emotions. (Applause.) I have 
no terms in which to express my gratitude-(cbeers)-for the 1ilagnanimity of his State 

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and for the generosity of this Convention. (Cheers.) I have no terms in which to tell 
of my regret that my name has been brought before this Convention. God kmnrs thai 
my life and all that I value most in life I would give for the good of my country, which 
I believe to be identified with our own party. (Applause, and cries of" Tnke the nomination 
then.") I do not stan~l here as a man proud of his opinions, or obstinate in his 

purposes, but upon a question of duty and of honor I must stand upon my own convic


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tions against the world. (Applause, and a voice, " Goel bless you Horatio Se.rmour.")

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Gentlemen, when I said here at an early day, that honor forbade my accepting a nomination 
by this Convention, I meant it. When, in the course of mr intercourse with

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those of my own delegation and my friends, I said to them that I could not be a candiuate, 
I meant.it. And now permit me here to say that I know, after all that has taken 
place. I could not receive the nomination without placing, not only myself, but the 
great ·Democratic party, in a false position. But, gentlemen of the Convention, more 
than that, we l1m·e had to-day an exhibition from the distinguished citizen of Ohio, that 
has touched my heart, as it has touched yours. (Cheers.) I thank God, and I congratulate 
this cou;try, th~t there is in the great State of Ohio, whose magnificent position. 
gives it so great a control over the action ofour country, a young man, rising fast into 
fan~e, whose future is all glorious, who has told the world that he could tread beneath 
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cgation, nnd expressed in more direct terms, that he was will~ng that I should be nominated, 
who stood in such a'position of marked oppos_ition to his own nomination, I 
should feel a dishonored man if I could not tread, in the far distance, and in a feeble 
way, the same honorable pathway which he has marked out. (Great applause.) Gentlemen, 
I thank you, and may God bless you for your kindness to me; but your candidate 
I cannot be. (Three cheers for Horatio Seymour.) 

MR. VALLANDIGIIAlI (Ohio)-..1lfr. President: In times of great public emergency, 
and especially in times of great public calamity, every personal consideration must be 
yielded to the public good. (Applause.) The safety of the people is the supreme law, 
and the safety of the American Republic demands the nomination of Horatio Seymour, 
of New York. (Cheers.) Ohio cannot; Ohio will not accept his declination, and her 
twenty-one votes shall standrecorded in his name. (Cries of" good, good," and cheers.) 
And now I call upon. the delegations from all the States represented on this floor; upon 
the delegations from all the States of this Union, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from 
the great lakes to the gulf, disregarding those minor considerations which justly, it may 
be, properly I know, tend to sway them in casting their ballots, to make t'1is nomination 
unanimous; and before God, I believe that in November, the juogment of this 
Convention will be confirmed and ratified by the people of all the United States. (Applause.) 
Let the vote of Ohio stand recorded then-twenty-one votes for Horatio Seymour. 
(Immense and continued applause.) 

Mn. KERNAN (New York)-1lfr. President: Belonging to the delegation from the 
State of New York, and coming from the district where the President of this Cohvention 
lives, I cannot, as an individual delegate, refrain from asking the indulgence of 
this Convention in making one or two observations. And in order that we may relieve 
everybody, in order that we may relieye our Chairman from e'\·ery bit of sensitiveness 
on the question of honor, I desire to say, on behalf of tlie delegation from the State of 
New York, that they haye had neither lot nor part in the motion which in our hearts 
we yet rejoice to hear from the State of Ohio. (Applause.) 1Ve heard but recently 
that some such movement was thought, by wise and good men, necessary for the safety 
of our country, but our hearts were coerced out of deference to the sensitiveness of the 
gentleman who presides over this Conyention, and we told them we could have neither 
lot nor part in it, unless others overcome that which we had not been able to do. Now, 
sir, let me say another word; we haYe balloted two or three days; we have balloted, 
thank God, in the best temper and spirits; we have resolved, and we required the 
ju?gment of two-thirds of the delegates of this Convention for our nominee, to the 
end that we might be sure, for the sake of our country, that we would have a majority 
of the electors next Xoyember. And.after striving hard, after striving long, and after 
consultmg as well as we could in reference to the various names brought before us, we 
have not been able yet to convince the judgment of two-thirds of the Convention for 
the candidates we have supported. New York has steadily voted her judgment, with 
kind feelings to other candidates. 1Ye haYe pronounced as our second choice for a distinguished 
citizen of Indiana. 'nut it seems to me that after this long struggle, and in 
this crisis of our affairs, and in view of. what is so important to _every man, woman and 
child in the Union-that we should succeed in.:November-it seems to me now, in re-. 
ference to our distinguished Chairman, that his honor is entirely safe. No one can 
doubt that he has steadily and in good faith declined; but now his honor is safe, and his 
duty to his country, his duty to his fellow-citizens, to all that shall come after us, requiros 
that he shall let the judgment of the delegates of this Convention prevail; and 
·if it should select him as "the standard-bearer, most certain, in their opinion, to win a 

triumph for the country next :November. (Applause.) 1Ye leave it in the hands of 

others, as we are constrained to do; but I give it as my judgment, for the past, the 

present, and the future, that if we should select him as the man, in our judgment, tipon 

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whom we can all unite, X ew York will fall in and gh~e a majority of a hundred thousand 
without a canvass. ~ 

The roll of States continued to be called as follows: 

0REGOX-The Chairman of the Delegation-3 votes for Hendricks. 

P.E;XXSYLY..A.XI.A~The Chairman of the Delegation_:26 votes for General Hancock. 

RHODE ISL.A~D--The Chairman of the Delegation-Rhode Island casts her 4 votes for 
Doolittle. 
Sm;Tn C.AROLI~.A-The Chairman of the Delegation..,..-6 votes for General Hancock. 
TEXXESSEE-The Chairman or the Delegation-The State of Tennessee casts her 
vote as follows: An.drew Johnson, 4; Hendricks, H; Hancock, 3t; Horatio Seymour,1. 

TEX.As-The Cluurman of the Delegation-6 votes for Hancock. 

VEmIOXT-The Chairman of the Dclegation-5 votes for Hendricks. 

VrnGIXIA-Thc Chairman of the Dele!!ation-10 votes for Hancock. 

·WEST VmGIXI.A-The Chairman of th~ Delegation-5 votes for Hendricks. 

'Y1scoxs1x-:Mr. II. L. Palmer, of w·isconsin-The delegation fro1i1 'Yisconsin have 
steadily supported a distinguished citizen of that State for the position of President of 
the United States, but I am now instructed by the delegation of the State to change that 
vote; and in making this change I am instructed to second the State of Ohio-(applause) 
-and to cast their eight votes for Horatio Seymour. (Tremendous cheering.) 

KEXTUCKY-The Chairman of the Delegation-Kentucky casts her eleven votes for 
Horatio Seymour. (Wild enthusiasm.) 

)L\ss.ACHUSETTS-)fr. Abbott (of ::\Iass.)-The State of )fassachusetts instructs me 
to cast her yote for one whom :Massachusetts, whom all the East, so far as I know, has 
regarded for years past as the leader of the Deniocracy-Iloratio Seymour, of N cw 
York. (Cheering, and waving of hats and handkerchiefs.) 

XORTH C.AROLIX.A-::\Ir~ Wright (X. C.)-I am instmcted by the delegation from 
North Carolina to change their vote, and to cast it as they original~y cast it-for Horatio 
Seymour, of Xew York. (Great cheering.) 

The Secretary then announced that the State of :N"orth Carolina cast her 9 
votes for Horatio Se):n1our. 

A scene c1f the wildest enthusiasm followed, the chairmen of a dozen of the 
delegations present springing from their seats, to obtain a recognition from the 
Chair to change their votes to Seymour. 

Mr. w·ooclward (Pa.) asked that the vote of Pennsylvania be not recorded 
for the present. . . 
:\Ir. Featherstone piis_s.)-I am instructed to change the vote of the State of l\Iississippi 
from General Hancock to Horatio Seymour. 

The announcement was received throughout the building with uproarious 
applause, ancl the rising of delegates to their feet, and calling for recognition 
by the Chair. The Chairman insisted upon gentlemen taking their seats. 

:\Ir. w·oodward (Pa.,) after repeated efforts, made himself heard by ~he Chair, an~ 
those immediately surrounding him, that the State of.Pennsylvan_ift hann~ voted uniformly 
thus far for two of her distinguished sons, Imd mstmctecl lum, through lier <lele


gation, to transfer lier entire 2G votes to Horatio Seymour. 

The Secretary, by virtue of the superior strength of his lungs, informed the 
Convention tha.t th~ State of Pennsylrnnia had cast its unanimous vote for 
Horatio Seymour, of Xew York. 

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The wildest enthusiasm continued. Nothing was heard but cheers from the 
galleries and floor, and cries of ":Mr. President". from delegates standing in 

their seats. Fans, handkerchiefs, and hats were waved, and some took the 
small banners designating the seats of different delegations and swayed them in 
the air. 

Seeing no probability of quieting the clamor, the Secretary successively recognized 
the Chairmen of the delegations from l\Iissouri and Virginia, and ~n·nounced 
that they had changed their votes to Horatio Seymonr. 

A scene of still grea.ter excitement and tumultuous enthusiasm followed. 
All the delegations were standing in their places, and striving for the recognition 
of the Chair by gesture and by voice, in the midst of which the announcement 
was made that Maryland, Illinois,' Texas, and Delaware bad trahsferred 
their united votes to Horatio Seymour. 

The announcement of the vote of each State added, if possible, to the tumult. 

At this point the cannon outside the building commenced firing, and the discharges 
were answered by those inside the hall rising to their feet with vociferous 
cheers and the waving of handkerchiefs. 

l\Ir. Smith (Vermont) being near the President's desk, obtained recognition 
to make thes~ reiiiarks, which were heard only by those in his immediate vicinity: 


~In. PRESID~XT: Vermont was the first State in the Convention to cast its vote for 
the distinguished citizen of Indiana, pir. Hendricks.) She now yields to the evident 
wish of the Convention, and. she finds in the distinguished gentleman from :New York 

all she desires as a candidate. She, therefore, changes her vote from Thomas .A. Hendricks 
to Horatio Seymour. 

New Jersey, " 1est Virginia, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, l\Iaine, and 
Georgia here changed their votes to Seymour, receiving the approval of all who 
heard the Secretary declare the change. 

The Chairman of the Kansas Delegation-Kansas casts her 3 votes for Horatio Seymour. 
~Ir. BIGLER-California casts her 5 votes for Horatio Seymour. (Applause.) 

nir. DAwsos (Pa.)-I am requested to say that.it is the unanimous voice of 
this Convention that the nomination of Horatio Seymour be made by acclamation. 
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The CHAIR~IAX-It cannot be done until all the States }iaye voted on thls 
ballot. 

The Chairman of the Florida Delegation-Florida wishes to cast her 3 votes for Horatio 
Seymour. (Applause.) 
The Chairman of the :L\linncsota Deiegation-.Minncsota, following the lead of Ohio, 
casts her entire vote for Horatii) Seymour. 
The Chairman of the Xew Hampshire Delegation-The State. of New Hampshire 

caTsts h erhv?te, andf'cahstsGit entire, for H~ratio seymou1•. cl h r t,
1ie 0 amnan o t e eorgia Delegat10n--T1ie 8tate of Georgia has vin 1catec1 e 
choice by casting her vote for the most accomplished soldier of the Union army-he 
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try. But, sir, we come here to abide by the choice of the Democratic party and now 

join our voice of the Democracy from one enc1 of the country to the other f~r Horatio 

Seymour. (Applause.) 

~IR. Jo:~rns (La.)-Louisiana asks leave to change her vote, and vote for Horatio 

Seymour, and, Mr. Chairman, although we have twenty-five thousand of our white 

population disfranchised, and although we have fifty thousand voters unln10wn to our 

Constitution; and to our laws, yet, Mr. Chairman, I pledO'e the vote of the State of 

Louisiana to the nominee. (.Applause.) ~ 


Mn. STEWART (1\Iich.)-Mr. Chairman: The delegates from the State of :Michigan 
c~me to this Convention of all the States in the Union, with but one single purpose in 
view, and that was to nominate a candidate for the office of President of the United 
States who _could certainly be elected. That position we occupy to-day; and, sir, when 
we look aro~nd in this Convention, and see here for the first time in eight years the 
assembled wisdom of the Democracy of the country-a country bounded only upon the 
Atlantic, and upon the Pacific, bec~use on the north and on the south-America ack-
nowledges, ns yet, no boundary whatever-:-when, therefore, sir, so much wisdom as 
is here to-day, with a voice so united as this, speaks for the distinguished son of New 
York,-the greatest statesman, in my judgment, now living-(appla~se)-Michigan cannot 
consent to withhold her voice in this general expression, not only of confidence; 
but, sir, this expression of patriotic determination to rescue this country from the grasp 
of the most desperate rebel that ever seized upon the reins ofthe Government. (Voices, 
"Good," " Good.") _ It is a question of Constitution; it 1s a question of country; it is a 
question of whether our blessed Union, and the freedom of these millions is to live, or 
whether it is .to be buried deep-clown in everlasting oblivion and infamy. (A voice" 
good," "go in.") Sir, under these circumstances, it is with infinite pleasure that 
Michigan casts her vote for Horatio Seymour, of New York. (Great ..Applause.) 

Mr. JA1ms B. CA~IPnELL (South Carolina)-_Jfr. President: I rise to answer for that 
State of the Union, ·which bears at this time most heavily the chains and weight of 
Radical mismle. I <lid not suppose, sir, that my voice, or that of an;~ of my colleagues, 
would be found in this assembly, except in the discharge of the routine business. In 
the words of the Convention that sent us here, we were instrncted to behave with the 
proprieties which belong to the well-bred guest, and not to assume any of the functions 
of the symposiai·ch of the feast. \Ye came here, :l\Ir. President and gentlemen of the 
Convention, having no favorite candidate-going not for men but for measures. :ve 
have been more than !ITateful for the declaration of principles ancl of prospective 
measures that has been"" announced by the Convention, not only with unanimity but 
with unsurpassed enthusiasm. \Ve.were instructed, and the instructions were coi~1cident 
with the feelinO's of every honest heart in South Carolina, to accept the nommation 
of that man wl~ seemed to have the voice of the Convention. Obeying these instructions, 
South Carolina, with.an invocatioµ of God's blessing u~on this party wherein 
is centred the last hopes of the Rqmblic of Washington, nommates and 1·otes for 
Horatio Seymom, of :Ncw York. (Great applause.") 

A-Delegate from California moved that Horatio Seymour be tendered the 
unanimous vote of the Convention. 
(Voices-" No, no; let the vote be finished.") 

Ti1e Chairman of the Delaware Delegation-Delaw~re would change her vote, if not 
too late, and casts all her votes for Horatio Seymour.· (...::\.pplau::;e and laughter.) 

SA1IDEL J. Tn,DEX-..Llli-. Ohafrman-. 
A Delegate from New York-See if any other State wants to change its Yote 


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:UR. TILDEN-Ifthere is any State which has not yet voted, or that wishes to 
change its vote, I will yield the floor for that purpose. 
Delegates-" No, no," "go on.". 
MR. TILDEX-It is fit that on this occasion New York should wait for the voice of 
all her sister States. Last evening I should not lmve believed, did not ~elieve, the 
event which has just happened to be possible; not because I had not seen here that the 
underlying choice of almost all of this Convention was that we should do what we now 
have ·done. There was but one obstacle, and that was in the repugnance-which I 
take upon myself the whole responsibility of declaring it to have been earnest, sincere, 
deep-felt-on the part of Horatio Seymotir to accept this nomination. I did not believe 
that any circumstance would make it· possible, except that Ohio, with whom we have 
been unfortunately dividing our votes, herself demanding it, and to that I thought New 
York ought to yield. We were without any connection or any combination that bound 
our faith or our honor, and I was anxious that when we should leave this Convention 
that there should be underlying our action no heart burnings, no jealousy, no bitterness 
of disappointment ; and I believe that in this result we have lifted this Convention for 
above every such consideration. And I believe furtl~er, after having surveyed the ground 
for a long time and meditated most carefully what "\Ve ought to do, influenced, I am sure, 
by no personal partiality, by no other thing than the deliberate conviction of my judgment-
I believe that we have made the nomination most calculated to give us success 
in the election which approaches. And, sir, having made these observations in behalf 
of the New York delegation, I now ask that our vote be changed, and be recorded for 
Horatio Seymour. (Cheers.) 

The SECRETARY-The State of New York changes her vote and casts rher 
unanimous vote for Horatio Seymour. 
(Loud and long-continued applause.) 
, l\IR. 'VHITE (Md.)-I now. propose, Mr. President, that a Committee of one 
from each State be appointed to call upon(
Loud cries of "No, no," "Better wait until the vote is taken," "Too soon," 
&c., &c., &c.) 

The CHAIRMAN-The vote has not yet been announced. 

MR. 'VHITE-I understood that the. chairman of the New York delegation 
asked if all the States had voted, and it "~as announced that they had, that they 
had all voted for Horatio Seymour, and that he was unanimously nominated. 

The CHAIR::\IAx-The vote has not been announced.· 

MR. WHITE-I ·withdraw my motion. 

Mn. S. CLARK (Wisconsin)-! have a proposition to make to this Convention 
for myself, and it is in order to announce it before the vote is announced. 
I see around me on the floor and in the galleries, ladies and gentlemen wlio 
desire also to be heard, and ·who should have some voice in this Convention· in 
ratifying the nomination by acclamation. I therefore move ·that they ratify it 
by giving three cheers for Horatio Seymour. 

The suggestion 'rns immediately acted upon. Every one rose, and amid the 
waving of hats, handkerchiefa, fans, canes, and parasols, three tremendous 
cheers were given, which fah·ly made the building rock. 

(Loud cries of"Order," "order.") 

The CHAIK\IAX-The Convention will come to order. 


XATIOXAL DE)IOCRATIC COXVEXTION. 

The SECRETARY~The following is the result of the twenty-second ballot: 
All th~ States having voted, and th~ :vote of the full electorial college having 
been given, the roll stands for Horatio Seymour 317 votes. 
(Rene,vcd cheering, the Convention and audience again arising and another 
scene of enthusiasm prevailing for five minutes.) · 
The CHAimIAx-The Convention will. come to 01:der. 'AII business will be 
suspended until order is restored. 
~IR. DAwsox (Pa.)-..Jfr. President-
The CnA1mrAx-The official announcement has not yet been made. Gentlemen 
of the Convention will sit down. · 
Order having been restored, 

The CHAIR)IAX said: The .Hon. Horatio Seymour having received the unanimous 
vote of this C01wention, I therefore declare him candidate, and the 
standard-bearer of the Democratic party in the ensuing election. 

The announcement was followed by tremendous cheering. 
·Governor Seymour imving been nominated in this unexpected and enthusiastic 
manner, Kentucky nominated Francis P. Blair, Jr., for Vice President, 
and his nomination was made unanimous. 
A great ma~s meeting was held on Fr~day evening, July IO, outside and inside 
of Tammany Hall, where the nominations were formally tendered the 
candidates. 

The following is Governor Seymour's reply to the speech of General l\Iorgan: 

:i\IR. CnAIRlIA~ AND GE:STLE:\IE:S OF THE CmnIITTEE; I thank you for the ~ourteous 
terms in which you have communicated to me the action of the Democratic N ationa 
C?nvention. (Cheers.) I have no words adequate to express my gratitude for the goodwill 
and kindness which that body has shown to me. Its nomination was unsought, and 
~mexpected. It was my ambition to take an active part, from which I am now excluded, 
m the great struggle going on for the restoration of good government, of peace and 
~rosperity to our country. (Great cheering.) But I liave been caught up by the whelm 


i?g tide that is bearing us on to a great political change, and I find myself unable to resist 
its pressure. (Loud cheers.) You have also given to me a copy of the resolutions 
put forth by the Convention showin<T its position upon all the great.questions which 
n?w agitate the country. A~ the pr;siding officer of that Convention, I a~ familiar 
with their scope and import, and as pne of its members I am a party to their terms; 
they are in accord with my views, and I stand upon them in the contest upon which ·we 
are now entering; and I shall strive to carry them out in future wherever I may be 
placed, in public or in private life. (Cheers.) I congratulate you, and all conservative 
nien, who seek to restore order, peace, prosperity, and good government to our land, 


upon the evidences everywlierc shown, that we are to triumph at the next election.(
Prolonged cheering.) Those ,yho arc politically opposed to us flattered themselves 
there would be discord in our councils; they mistook the uncertainties of our views as 
to the best methods of can·yin~ out our purposes for difference of opinion with regard 
to. those purposes. They mistook an intense anxiety to do no act which shoul~ not be 
Wise and judicious for a SJ)irit of discord, but during the lengthened procecdmgs and 
earnest discussions of the Convention there has prevailed an entire harmony of intercourse, 
a patient forbearance, and a self-sacrificing spirit, which are the sure tokens of 
a coming victory. ..i:\ccept for yo1m~elves, gentlemen, my wishes for yo~r f~turc welfare 
and happiness. (Cheers.) In a few days I will answer the cornmumcat10n you have 


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just handed me by letter, as is the customary form. (Tremendous and long-continued 
cheering.) · 

General Blair replied as follows to General Morgan: 
I accept the platform of resolutions passed by the late Democratic Convention, and I 
accept their nomination-(great cheering)-with feelings of profound gratitude, and, 
sir, I thank you for the very kind manner in which you have already conveyed to me 
the decision of the Democratic Convention. I accept the nomination with the com·iction 
that your nomination for the Presidency is one which will carry us to cerfain 
victory-(applause)-and because I believe that the nomination is the most proper 
nomination that could be made by the Democratic party. (Applause.) The contest 
which we wage is for the restoration of constitutional government-(cheers)-and it is 
proper that we should make this contest under the lead .of one who has given his life to 
the maintenance of constitutional government. (Applause.) We are to make the 
contest for the restoration of those great principles of government which belong to our 
race. (Great applause.) And, my feliow-citizens, it is most proper that we should 
select for our leader a man not from military life, but one who has devoted himself to 
civil pursuits ; who has given himself to the study and the understanding of the Constitution 
and its maintenance with all the force of reason and judgment. (Applm.ise.) :My 
fellow-citizens, I have said that the contest before us was one for the restoration of our 
government, lt is also one for the restoration of our race. (Applause, long continued.) 
It is to prevent the people of our race from bein~ exiled ;from their homes-(cheers)exiled 
from the government which they formed and created for themselves and for 
their children, and to prevent them from bEing driven out of the country or trodden 
under foot by an inferior and semi-barbarous race. (Applause.) In this country we shall 
have the sympathy of every man who is worthy to belong to the white race. (Applause.) 
"\Yhat civilized people on earth would refuse to associate with themselves in all the 
· i. 

rights and honors and dignity of their country such men as Lee and Johnson? What 
civilized country on earth would foil to do honor to those, who, fighting for an erroneous 
cause, yet distinguished themselves by gallantry in that service P (Applause.) In 
that contest for which they are sought to be disfranchised and to be exiled from their 
homes-in t'mt contest they have proved themselves worthy to be our peers. (.Applause.) 
:Uy fellow-citizens, it is not my purpose to make any long address-(cries of "go on") 
but simply to express my gratitude for the great and distinguished honor which has 
been conferred upon me. 

A voi~e-" You are worthy of it." 
General Blair-And from my heart to reiterate the words of thanks that fell from 
my lips ·when I arose. 
(Renewed cheering, dunng wl1ich General Blair retired.) 


PLATFORl\f 
OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, 


.ADOPTED IN NEW YORK, JULY 7, 1868. 

. . The _Dem?cratic party, in National Convention assembled, reposing its trust 

Ill the mtelhgence, patriotism and discriminating justice of the people, standing 

upon the Constitution as the foundation and limitation of t.he powers of the 

gove~nment and the guarantee of the liberties ~f the citizen, and recognizing 

the questions of slavery and secession as having been settled for all time to 

come by the war or the voluntary action of the Southern States in constitutional 

conventions assembled, and never to be renewed or reagitat~d, do with the re


turn of peace demand


Ffrst-Immediate restoration of all the States to. their rights in the Union 

nncler the Constitution, and of civil government to 'the American people. 

Second-Amnesty for all past political offences, and the regulation of the 

elective franchise in the States by their, citizens. · 

Thinl-Payment of the uublic debt of the U nitecl States as· rapidly as prac


ticable, all money drawn· f;om the people by taxation, except so much as is re


quisite for the necessities of the government economically aclmirtistered, being 

honestly applied to such payment, and where the obligations of the government 

do not expressly state upon their face or the law under which they were issued 

does not provide that they shall be paid in coin, they ought in right and in justice 

be paid in the lawful money of the United States. · 

Fo1lrth-Equal taxation of every species of property, according to its real 
value, including government bonds and other public securities. 
Fifth-One currency for the government and the people, the labo~er and 
the officeholder, the pensioner and the soldier, the producer and the bondholder. 

Sixth-Economy in the administration of the government, the reduction of 
the standing army and navy, the abolition of the Freedmen's Bureau and all 
political instrumentalities designed to secure negro supremacy, simplification 
of the system and discontinuance of inqui::;itorial modes of assessing and collecting 
internal revenue, so that the burden '?f taxation may he equalized and lessened, 
the credit of the government increased nnd the currency made good. 
The re1Jeal of all enactments for recalling the State militia into the national 

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THE DE::\IOCRATIC PLATFOR~I. 

forces in time of peace, and a tariff for revenue upon foreign imports and such 
equal taxation under the internal revenue laws as will afford incidental protec-J 
tion to domestic manufacture, and as will, without impairing. the revenue, i1:11pose 
the least burden upon and best promote and encourage the great industrial 
interest of the country. 

Seventh-Reform of abuses in administration, the expulsion of corrupt men 
from office, the abrogation of useless offices, the restoration of rightful authority 
to and the indepe~dcnce of the Pxccutive· and judicial departments of the government, 
and the subordination of the military to the civil power, to the encl 
that the usurpations of Congress and the despotism of the sword may cease. 

Eighth-Equal rights and protection for naturalized and native born citizens 
at home and abroad, the association of American nationality whicli shall command 
the respect of foreign Powers, and· furnish an example and encouragement 
to people struggling for national integrity, constitutional liberty and individual 
rights, and the maintenance of the rights of naturalized citizens against the ~bsolute 
doctrine .of immutable allegiance and the claims of foreign Powers to 
punish them for alleged crim~s committed beyond their jurisdiction. 

In demanding these measures and reforms we arraign the Radical party for 
its disregard of right and the unparalleled oppression and tyranny which have 
marked its career. After the most solemn and unanimous pledge of both houses 
of Congress to prosecute the war exclusively for the maintenance of the government 
and the preservation of the Union under the Constitution, it has repeat-) 
edly violated that most sacred pledge, under which alone was rallied that noble 
volunteer army which carried our flag to victory. Instead· of restoring the 
Union, it has, so far as lay in its power, dissolved it, and subjected ten States 
in time of profound· peace to military despotism and negro supremacy ; it has 
nullified there the right of trial· by jury; it has abolished the habeas corpusthat 
most sacred writ of liberty; it has overthrown the freedom of speech and 
of the press;. it has substittited arbitrary-seizures and arrests and military trials 
and secret Star Chamber inquisitions for the constitutional tribunals; it has 
disregarded, in times of peace, the right of the people to be free from searches 
and seizures; it has entered the post and telegraph offices and even the private 
rooms of individuals, and seized their private papers and letters, without any 
specific charge or notice of affidavit, as required by the organic l:iw; it has converted 
the American capital into a bastile; it has established a system of spies 
and o~cial espionage, to which no constitutional monarchies of Europe would 
dare to resort; it has abolished the right of appeal on important constitutional 
questions to the supreme judicial tribunal, and threatens to curtail or dest~oy 
its original jurisdiction, which is irrevocably vested by the Constitution, while 
the learned Chief Justice has been subjected to the most atrocious calumnies 
merely because he would not prostitrite his high office to the support of the 
false and partisan charges preferred against the President. Its corruption an,d !I 
extravagance have exceeded anything known in history, and by its frauds and 
monopolies it has nearly doubled the burden of the debt created by the war. 


THE DE~IOCRATIC PLATFOR)I, 

It has stripped the President of his constitutional power of appointment even 
of his own Cabinet. Under its repeated assaults the pillars of the goyernment 
f are rocking on their base, and should it succeed in November next and inaugurate 
its President, we will meet as a subject and conquered people amid the 

ruins of liberty and the scattered fragments of the Constitution. 

And we do dedare and resolve that ever since the people of the United States 
threw off all subjection .to the British cro"rn, the privilege and trust of suffrage 
have belonged to the several States and have been granted, regulated and controlled 
exclusively by the political power of each State respectively, and that 
any attempt by Congress, on any pretext whatever, to deprive any State of this 
right or interfere with its exercise, is a flagrant usurpation of power which can 
find no warrant in the Constitution, and if sanctioned by the people, will subvert 
our form of government and can only end in a single, centralized and consolidated 
government, in which the separate existence of the States will be entirely 
absorbed and an unqualified despotism be established, in place of federal 
union of coequal States, and that we regard the· reconstruction acts, as so called, 
of-Congress as such a usurpation and unconstitutional, revolutionary and void. 
That our soldiers and sailors who carried the flag of our country to victory 
against a most gallant and determined foe must ever be gratefully remembered, 
and all the guarantees given in their favor must be faithfully carried into execution. 


) · That the public lands should be distributed as widely as possible among the 
people, and should be disposed of, either under the pre-emption or Homestead 

law, or sold in reasonable quantities, and to none but actual occupants, at the 

minimum price established by the government. 'Yhen grants of public lands 

may be deemed necessary for the encouragement of important pubUc improve


ments, the proceeds of the sale of such lands and not the lands themselves 

should be so applied. . 

That the President of the United States, Andrew Johnson, in exercising the 
powers of his high office in resisting the aggressions of C01gress upon the constitutional 
rights of the States and the people, is entitled to the gratitude oft.he 
, whole American people, and in behalf of the Democratic party we tender lnm 

our thanks for his patriotic efforts in that regard. . . . 

Upon this platform the Democratic party appeals to every patriot? m?ludmg 

all the conservative element and all who desire to support the Conshtuhon and 

restore the Union, forgetting all past difference of opinion, to unite with us in 

the present great struggle for the liberties of the people; and to a~l such, to 

whatever party they may have heretofore belonged, we e~tend the right hand 

of fellowship and bail all such co-operating with us as friends and brethren. 


THE TENURE-OF-OFFICE BILL.· 


This act, regulating the tenure of ,certain civil offices, "·as passed over the 
President's veto on :March 2,.1867, as follows: 

SECTIOX I. Persons holding ~r appointed tO any civil office by and with the 
advice and consent of the Senate, shall be entitled to hold such office until a 
success~r shall have been in like manner appointed and duly qualified: The 
Secretaries of State, of the Treasury, of '\Var, of the Navy, and of the Interi.o~, 
the Postmaster-General, and the Attorney-General, shall hold their offices rei=-
pectively for and during the term of the President by whom they may ha,,e 
been appointed, and for one month thereafter, subject to removal by and with 
the advice and consent of the Senate. 

SEC. 2.· When civil officers, excepting juclges of the United States courts, 
shall, dnriug a recess of the Senate, be shown, by evidence satisfactory to the 
President, to be guilty of misconduct in office, or crime, or.for any reason shall 
become incapable or legally <lisqualified to perform its duties, in such case, the 
President may suspend such officer and designate some suitable person to perform 
temporarily the duties of sueh office until the next meeting of. the Senate, 
and until the case shall he acted upon by the Senate. Such persons shall take 
the oaths and give the bonds required by law. In such case it shall be the duty 
of the President, within twenty days after the meeting of the Senate, to report 
to the Senate such suspension, with the evidence and reasons for his action in 
the case, and the name of the per~on so designated to perform the duties of such 
office. If the Senate concurs, the President may remove. the officer and appoint 
a successor. If the Senate does not concur; the suspended officer resumes his 
office, and receives again the official salary and emoluments. The President, in 
ca~e he shall become satisfied that the suspension by him of a civil officer was 
made on insufficient grounds, shall be authorized, at any time before reporting 

the suspension to the Senate, to revoke the suspension and reinstate the officer 
in the performance of the duties of his office. 

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SEc. 3. The President shall have power to fill all vacancies which may hap-1··.,.; 
pen during the recess of the Senate, by reason of death or resignation, by grant



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ing commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session. And if 

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no ~ppointment, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall be 
made to such office so vacant or temporU;rily fil~ed during the next session of 
the Senate, the office shall remain in abeyance, without any salary, fees, or 
emoluments attached thereto, until it shaU be filled by appointment thereto 
by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and during such time all th; 
powers and· duties belonging to the office shall be exercised by such.-other 
officer as may by law exercise such powers and duties in case of a vacancy in 

such office. 
SEc. 4. No term of office, the duration of which is limited by law, shall be 
extended by this act. 
SEc. 5. Persons accepting or exercising office contrary to this act, are declared 
to be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and, upon trial and conviction thereof,: 
shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $10000, or by imprisonment not exceeding 
five years, or beth. 
SEc. 6. Every removal,-appointment, or employment, made, J1ad, or exercised, 
contrary to tl1e provisions of this act, and the making, signing, sealing, 
countersigning, or issuing of any commission or letter of authority for or.in respect 
to any such appointment or employment, are declared to be high misdemeanors, 
and, upon trial and conviction thereof, IJcrsons guilty thereof shall be 
punished by a fine not exceeding $10,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding 
five years, or both: ·Provided, That the President shall have power to make 
qut and deliver, after the adjournment of the Senate, commissions for all 
. officers whose appointment shall have been advised and consented to by the 
Senate. 
S:Ec. 7. It shall be the duty of the ~ecretary of the Senate, at the close of 
each session, to deliver to the Secretary of the Treasury, and to each of his assistants, 
and to each of the auditors, and to each of. the comptrollers in the 
t~easury, and to the treasurer, and to the register of the treasury, a full and 
complete list, duly certified, of all the persons who shall have bcennominatEd to 
and rejected by the Senate during such session, and a like list of all the 
offices to which nominations shall have been made and not confirmed and 
filled at such session. 
SEc. 8. The President shall notify the Secretary of the Treasury when he 
has made an appointment to of'µce without the consent of the Senate; and 
it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury thereupon to communicate 
such notice to all the proper accounting and disbursing officers of 
his department. . 
SEC. 9. No money shall be paid or receiye(lfrom the treasury, or paid or received 
from or retained out of any• public moneys or fonds of the United States, 
to or by or for the benefit of any person appointed to or authorized to act in or 
holding or exercising the duties or functions of any office contrary to the provisions 
of this act; nor shall any claim, account, or other instrument providing 
for or relating to such payment, receipt, or retention, be presented, passed, al


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lowed, approved, certified, or paid by any officer of the United States, or by 
any person exercising the functions or performing the duties of any office or 
place of trust under the United States, for or in respect to such office, or the exercising 
or performing the functions or duties thereof; and persons who shall 
violate any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a high 
misdemeanor, and, upon trial and conviction thereof, shall be punished 
therefor by a fine not exceeding $10,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding 
ten years, or both. 


CAll PAI G N CHARLIE. 

Written for the "Ntlropnlitan Record." 


lIR. SEYJIOUR'S LET'.rER ACCEPTIXG 
THE NO.lllXATIOX. 

The following is Horatio Seymour's acceptance 
of the Democratic nomination for 
the presidency: 

Unc:\• August 4, 1868.-Gentlemen: 
W~en, 1!1 the city of New York, on the 11th 
ultimo, m the presence of a vast multitude 
on b~half of the natiOnal Democratic con: 
>entrnn, you tendered to me its unanimous 
nomination as their candidate for the office 
of President of the United States, I stated I 
~ad no words adequate to express my gratitude 
for the good will and kindness which 
t~at body had shown to me. Its nomination 
was unexpected. It was my ambition 
to take an .active part, from which I am now 
excluded, m the great struggle goin(J' on 
for the restoration of good government, of 
race and prosperity to our country. But 

~ave. been caught by the whelming tide 
hh1ch ls bearing us on to a great political 
~ ange, and I find myself unable to resist 
its pressure. You have also given me a 
copY: of the resolutions put forth by the con


.>ent1on, showing its position upon all the 
great questions which now ~v·itate the country. 
As the presidin(J' offic~r of that conyention, 
I am familia/'with their scope and 
nnpor~; as one of its members, I am a party 
to th~1r terms. They are in accord with 
my views, and I stand upon them in the 
contest upon which we are now entering, 
and I shall strive to carry them out in future, 
W~erever I may be placed, in political or 
Pn>ate life. 

I then stated that I would send you these 
Words of acceptance in a letter, as is the 

customary form. I see no reason, upon reflection, 
to change or qualify the terms of 
my approval of the resolutions of the convention. 


I have delayed the mere formal act of 
communicating to yoi1 in writing what· I 
thus publicly said, for the purpose of seeing 
what light the action of Congress would 
throw upon the interests of the country. 
Its acts since the adjournment of the convention 
show an alarm lest a change of political 
power will give to the people what 
they ought to have, a clear statement of 
what has been done with the money drawn 
from them during' the past eight years. 
Thoughtful men feel that there have been 
wrongs in the financial management which 
have been kept from the public knowledge. 
The congressional party has not only allied 
itself with military power, which is to ·be 
brought to bear directly upon the elections 
in many States, but it also holds itself in 
perpetual session, with the avowed purpose 
of'making such laws as it Rhall see fit, in 

view of 'the elections which will take place 
within a few weeks. It did not therefore 
adjourn, but took a recess, to meet again if 
its partisan interests shall demand its reassembling. 
~ever hcfore in the history of 
our country has Congress thus taken a 
menacing attitude towar'tls its electors. Under 
its influence, some of the States organized 
by its agents are proposing to deprive 
the people of the right to vote for presidential 
electors, and the first _bol<l steps are 
taken to destroy the rights of suffrage. It 
is not strange, therefore, that thoughtful 
men see in such fiction the proof that there 
is, with those who shape the policy of the 


CAl\IPAIGN CHARLIE, CONTI~"'"UED. 

~H~cz-c-ew_., §


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I fact _that ~be gain -say'd by the world nor yet h~s wife-To 

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i~-·-·-... .-.-.---,; .... 

Dem -~ -crats are mus -ter -ing and wheel-ing in -to line; And

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l com -ing, aye, they're com -ing, to take part in this campaign; So 


me, my tastes a.re sim • plc ; so I'm sat -is -fied with white; /11 

Republican party, a motive stronger and 
deeper than the mere wish to hold political 
power ; that there is a dread of some exposure 
which drives them on to acts so desperate 
and so impolitic. 

Many of the ablest leaders and journals 
of the Republican party have openly deplored 
the violence of congressional aetion, 
and its tendency to keep up discord in our 
country. The great interests of our country 
demand reace, order, and a return to tho;;e 
industria pursuits without which we cannot 
maintain the faith of our government. 
The minds of business men are perplexed 
by uncertainties. The hours of toil of our 
laborers are l~ngthened hy the costs of living 
made by the direct and indirect exactions 
of government. Our people are harassed 
by the heavy and fre'luent demands 
of the tax-gatherer. 'Vithout distinction of 
party, there is a stron;; feeling in foxor of 
that line of action which shall restore order 
and confidence, and shall lift off the burdens 
which now hinder and vex the industry of 
the countrv. Yet at this inoment those in 
power ha-re thrown into the Senate chamber 
and congressional hall new elements of discord 
and violence. l\Ien have been admitted 
as representatives ofsome ofthe southern 
States, with the declaration upon their lips 
that they cannot live in the States they 
claim to represent, without military protection. 
These men are to make laws for the 
North as well as the South. These men, 
who, a few days since, wereseekinO' a~ suppliants, 
that Congress would gf~-e them 
power within their respective States, are to<
lay the masters and controllers of the actions 
of those bodies. Entering them with 
minds filled with passions, their first demands 
have Leen, that Congre:::s shall look 
upon the States from which they come as in 

conditions of civil war; that the majority ~f 
their populations, embracing t~eir int~lhgence, 
shall be treated as public enemies; 
that military forces shall be kept up at the 
cost of the people of the North, and that 
there shall be no peace and order ~t the 
South save that which is made by arbitrary 
power. Every intelli(l'ent man knows that 
these men owe their0 seats in Congress to 
the disorder in the South; e>ery man kno"\f.s 
that they not only owe their presMt p~sitions 
to disorder, but that every mot~re 
springin~ from the love of power, of gam, 
of a desire for vengance, prompts them to 
keep the South in anarchy.. Whil~ that 
exists, they are independent of the '."ills or 
wishes of their fellow citizens. While con· 
fusion reigns, they are the dispensers of the 
profits and the honors which grow out of a 
government of mere force. These men are 
now placed in positions where they can not 
01clly urge their views of policy, but where 
they can enforce them. When others shall 
be admitted in this manner from the remaining 
· Southern States, although th~y 
will ha>e in truth no constituents, they ""1ll 
have more power in the Senato tha~ ~ m:i· 
jority of the people of this Union hvrn.g i~ 
nine of the great States. In vain the ""1ses 
mel?bers of the_Republican party .rrote:t\f 
agamst the policy that led to tin~ re-u · 
While the chiefs of the late rebellion ha>e 
submitted to the results of the war, and f,0 
now quietly enO'aO'ed in useful pursuits . or 

to> o , d h . f roihe"'

the.support of themselves an t e!r a i' 
and are trying by the force of then· examph e 
to lead back the people of the South ~o t e 
order and industry, not only essential· td 

their well-beinO'0 but to the greatness an ..~ 

prosperity of o~r common country, "e see P, 
that those who, without abil!ty ?r intlri~ii 
ham been thrown by the ag1tat10ns o c 


my head, and not · on it, I much 11re -fer the kinks, For 

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co~vuls_io.n into positions of.honor and profit, 
are. strivmg to keep alive the passions to 
which they owe their elevation. And they 
cl~morously insis.t that they are the only 
friends of our Umon-a Union that can only 
have a sure foundation in fraternal regard 
and a common desire to promote the peace, 
the order and the happiness ·of all sections 
of our land. · 

Events in Congress s.ince the adjournInent 
of the Convention have vastl;r increased-
the importance of a political victory by 
those who are seeking to brin{J' back economy! 
simplicity and justice in° the administration 
. of our national affairs. Many 
Republicans have heretofore clun{J' to their 
P~rty, who ha>e regretted the extreme! Clf 
nol~nce to which it has .run. They ha>e 
che_rished a faith, that "While the action of 
their political friends · has been mistaken, 
their motives have heen good. They must 
now see that the Republican party is in 
t~at condition that it cannot carry out a 
".ise and peaceful policy, whatever its motives 
may be. It is a misfortune, not only 
to a country, but toa ~overning party itself~ 
when its. ~ction is unchecked by any form 
of opposition. It has been the misfortune 
~{the Hepuhlic::m party that the e.ents of 

e past few vears have given it so much 
power that it°'has been able to shackle the 
~xecutive, to trammel the judiciary, and 

o carry out the views of the most urtwise 
and violent of its members. When this 
state of things exist in anv party, it bas 
C>er been found that the judgments of the 
ahlest leaders do not control. There is 
hardly an able man J>hO has helped to build 
Up th? ~epuhlican organization, who h~s 
not .w1tlun the past three years warned It 
agamst its cxcesseE<, who has not been 
borne down and forced to give up: his convictions 
of what the interests of the country 
called for ; or, if too patriotic to do this, 
who has not been driven from its ranks. If 
this has been the case heretofore, what will 
be its action now with this new infusion of 
men who, without a decent respect for the 
views of those who had just given them 
their positions, begin their legislative career 
with calls for arms, with demands that their 
States shall be regarded as in a condition · 
of civil war, and with a declaration that 
they.are ready and anxious to degrade the 
President of the United States whenever 
they can persuade or force Congress to bring 
forward new articles of impeachment ? 

The Republican party, as well as we, are 
interested in putting some check upon this 
violence. It must be clear to every thinkin{
J' man that a division of political power 
te~ds to check the rfolence of party action 
and to assure the peace and µ;ood order of 
society. The election of a. Democratic executive 
and a majority of Democratic members 
to the House of Representatives would 
not gi>c to that party organization the pow~r 
to make sudden or violent changes, but it 
would serve to check those e!treme measures 
which have been deplored b~ the hest 
men of both political organizations. The 
result would mr;>st certainly lead to, that 
peaceful restoration of the ~nion. and :eestablishmentoffraternal 
relationship which 
the country desires. I am sure that the 
best men of the RepubUean party deplore 
as deeply as I do the sr.irit of violen~e ~hown 
by those recently :i<ln11tted to seats m Congress 
from the South. The condition of civil 
war which they contemplate must be abhorrent 
to er-ery right-thinking .man. . 

I ha>e no mere personal wishes which 
mislead my jud~ment in regard t~ the pending 
election. Xu man who has we1gheJ. and 

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when there's work or fight on band, I'm al -ways count -cd in. 

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I'm a straight-out Dem -o 


measured the duties of the office of President 
ofthe United States can foil to be impressed 
with the cares and toils of him who 
1s to meets its demands. Itis not merely to 
float with popular currents without a policy 
or a purpose. On the contrary, while our 
Constitution gives just weight to the public 
will, its distinguishing feature is that it 
seeks to protect the rights of minorities. Its 
. greatest glory is that it putHestraints upon 
power. Jt gives force and form to those 
maxims and principles of civil liberty for 
which the martyrs offreedom have struggled 
through ages. It declares the right of tha 
people "to be secure in their persons, houses, 
and papers. against unreasonable searches 
and seizures. That Congress shall make 
no law respecting an establishment of religion 
or the free exercise thereof, or abridging 
the freedom of speech, or of the press, 
or the right of the people to petition for redress 
of grievances. It secures the right of 
a speedy and public trial by an impartial 

jury.'' 

No man can rightfully enter upon the 
duties of the presidential office unless he is 
not only willing to carry out the wishes of 
the people expressed in a constitutional 
way, but is also prepared to stand up for the 
rights of minorities. He must be ready to 
\lphold the free exercise of religion. He 
must denounce measures which woulU 
wrong personal or home rights, or the reliofous 
conscience of the.humblest citizen· of 
tl~e land. He must maintain, without distinction 
of creed or nationality, all tho privilecres 
of American citizenship.

9rhe experience of every public man who 
has been faithful to his trust teaches him 
that no one can do the duties of the office of 
President, unless he is ready not only to undergo 
the falsehoolds and abuse ef the bad, 

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cru.t, aud. ncv -er "mix llJY drink~... 

but to suffer from the censure of the goed 
who are misled by prejudices and misrepresentations. 
There are no attractions in such 
positions, which deceive. my judgment, 
when I say that a great change is going on 
in the public mind. The mass of the Republican 
party are more thoughtful, temperate 
and just than they were during the 
excitement which attended the progress 
and the close of the civil war. As the energy 
of the Democratic party springs froi;i1 
their devotion to their cause and not toth;nr 
candidates, I may with propriety speak of 
the fact that never in the political history 
of. our county has the action of any like 
body been hailed with such universal and 
wide-spread enthusiasm as that which bas 
been shown in relation to the position of t~e 
national Democratic convention. 'Vith this 
the candidates had nothing to do. Had 
any others of those named been selected, 
this spirit would have been perhaps more 
marked. The zeal and energy of the conservative 
musses spring from a desire to 
make a change of political policy, and 
from the confidence· that they can carry out 
their purpose. 

In this faith they are strengthened by the 
co-operation of the great body of those lYho 
served in the Union army and navy c!urmg 
the war. Having given nearly sixteen 
thousand commissions to the officers of that 
army, I know their views and wishes. They 
demand the Union for which they fou~bt. 
The larrrest meeting ofthese gallant soldiers 
which ~ver assembled was held in New 
York, and endorsed the action _of .the 
National Convention. In words mstinct 
with meaning, they called upon the g_overnment 
to stop in its policy of hate, d~scord, 
and disunion u.nd in terms of fervid eloquence 
they demanded the restoration of the 


Cam-paign Char-lie, etc. 

rights and libei:ties of the American people. 

When there is such accord between those 

who proved themselves br::we and self-sacri


ficing in war, and those who arc thourrhtful 

and patriotic in council I cannot doubt we 

shall gain a political t~iumph which will 

restore ?Ur Union, bring back peace and 

prosperity to our land, and will give us once 

more the blessings of :i wise, economical 

and honest government. 

· I am, gentlemen, truly yours, &c., 

HORATIO SEHIOUR. 

To 
General G. ·w. l\Iorrran and others,

0 

Committee, &c., &c. 

GOVERXOR SEYl'tiOlJR'S WAR RECORD 

The ,Pennsyh·ania In,·asion-Tbe Xew 
York Riots. 

The Radical organs being determined to 
fight out the comin(J' campairrn on issues 
Which they deceived the peo;le about in 
1864, ·are enlarging on the record of Gov. 
Seymour during the war, but only in that 
part of it involved in the two days' riot in 
New York city. This they distort and misrepresent-
all else they suppress. The following 
public documents show the parts 
taken by Governor Seymour in the Gettysburg 
campaign, and his official conduct 
during the riot. It is needless to say that 
the Radicals dare not publish it, as it completely 
proves their falsehood and meanness. 
Let the people read this and then say w!1ether 
they .will tolerate the contemptible Radical 
slanders now in circulation : 

_BY TELEGRAPH FROM WASHINGTON, ~ 

June 15th, 1863. 5 

"To his Excellency, Gov. Seymour: 

"The movement of the rebel forces in Vir


ginia nre now sufficiently developed, to show 

that Gen. Lee, -rrith his whole nrmy is mov


ing forward to invade the States of :Maryland, 

Pennsylvania and ·other States. 

."The President, to repel this invasion 

promptly, has called upon Ohio, Pennsylvania, 

l\Iaryland, and Western Yirgini:i., for one 

hundred thousand (100,000) militia, for six 

(6) months, unless sooner discharged. It is 
important to have the largest possible force 
in t1'e least time, and if other States would 
furnish militia for a short term, to be ordered 
on the draft, it would greatly advance the 
object. ·wm you please' inform me, immediately, 
if, in answer to a special call of the 
President, .you can raise nnd forward 20,000 
militia, as volunteers without bounty, to be 
credited on the draft of your State, or what 
number you can probably raise? · 
. 
"E. l\I. STAXTOX, 
"Secretary of War." 

"ALBAXY, June 15, 1863." 
"Hon. E. l\L Stanton, Secretary of War, 
"\Yashington: 

" I will spare no efforts to send you troops 
at once. I lrnve sent orders to the militia officers 
of the State. 

HoR.\.TIO SEnIOrR." 
Does this sound like disloyalty? 

"ALnAXY; June 15, 1863. 
"Hon. E. l\I. Stanton, Secretary of War, 
Washington:

"I will order the Xew York and Brooklyn 
troops to Philadelphia at once. Where can 
they get arms, if they arc needed ? 

IIoRATIO SEntorn." 
Is this disloyal? 

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Douml to win, etc. 

Bound to win, etc. 

"BY TELEGRAPH FRO)[ "'ASHIXGTOY, ~ 

June 16, 1863. . 5 
"To Gov. Seymour: 
"The. President directs me to return his 
thanks, with those of the department, for 
your prompt response. A strong movement 
of your city regiments to Philadelphia would 
be a very encouraging movement, and do 
great good in giving strength in the State.The 
call had to be for six months, unless 
sooner discharged, in order to comply ~ith 
the law. It is not likely that more than thirty 
<lays' service-perhaps not so long-would 
be required. Can you forward your city 
regiments speedily? Please reply early"~ 
"Enw1~ ~I. STAXTox;' 

•·Secretary of"'ar." 
Is not this dispatch enough to silence this 
most malignant slander, and stop the venomous 
tongue of the m_ost unscrupulous slanderer? 


"ALBAXY, June 15, 1863. 
"Hon. E. ::u. "Stanton, Secretary of War, 
Washington: . 

"We have two thousand enlisted volunteers 
in this State. l will have them consolidated 
into companies and !"egiments, and sent on at 
once. You must provide them with arme. 

.. HORATIO SEY:lrOUR.'' 

Does this look like treason? 

"~hBAXY, June 16, 18G3. 
"Hon. E. ~I. Stanton, Secretary of War, 
Washington: 

''Four return volunteer regiments can be 
put in the field at o".lce, for three months' 
service. Can arms and accoutrements be 
supplied in Xew York? Old arms not fit for 
the field. "J. T. SPRAGUE, 

"Adjutant General." 

"BY TELEGRAPH Fno:u 'V.AsHIXGTox, l 

June 16, 1863. S 

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" To Adjutant General Sprague: 

"Upon your requisition, any troops you 
may send to l~ennsylvanin. will be armed and 
equipped in New York with new arms. 

"Orders have been criven to the Bureau of 
Ordnance. E:;w1s )I. ST.AXTON." 

BY TELEGRA.Pll FRO::II WASIIIXGTOX, i 
June 16, 1863. 5 
"To A'djutant-General Sprague: 

"The Quartermaster-General has made 

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provision for the clothing and equipment of I 

the troops that may go to Pennsylvania. The 

issues to be made at Harrisburg. You will 

make requisition for subsistence and trans· 
·portation as heretofore, for troops forwarded 
from your State. 
Enw1N M. STA..~Tox." 

•'BY TELEGRAPH FRO)! 'VASIIIXGTO~, l 
June 16, 1863. 5 
"To Act. Asst. .Adjt. Gen. Stonehouse: 
"The Quartermaster General bas been directetl 
to clothe the volunteers from your 


State, upon reaching their destination, and 
provisions have been made for that purpose. 
EDWI~ )!. STAXTOX, 
"Secretary of w·ar." 
ALBAXY, June 16, 1863. 
"Gov. Curtin, Harrisburg: 

" I am pushing forward troops as fast as 
possible; regiments will leave New York tonight. 
All will be ordered to report to Gen. 
Conch. "Hon.A.TIO SEY)IOUR." 

Compare this promptitude with the del~y 
that always occurcd under Gov. ~Jorgan in 
sending regiments forward in the first year

of the war. · .......,..----


ALBAXY, June 16, lSG!J. 
"Ilon. Edwin )1. Stanton, Secretary of War, 
Washington: . 

"Officers of old organizations here will 
take the field with their men, and can march 


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tight, my boys, etc. 

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to·morrow, if they can be paid irrespective of 

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I fight, 
ordnance accounts. The government will 
still have a hold upon them to refund for 
losses. "JoHX T. SPRAGCE, 

~\djutant Genernl." 

. "ALllAXY, June rn. ISG:3. 
·•Hon. Edwin ~I. Stanton, Secretary of War, 
Washington: 

"By request of Gov. Seymour, who has 
called ~e here, I write to say that the :Xew 
I York city regiments can go with full ranks 

I for any time not over three months-say 
from eight to ten thousand men, The shorter 
the period the larger will be the force. For 
what time will they be required? Please 
answer immediately. "c. "\V. SAXFORD, 
" 1Iujor Gener.al." 

"B1 TELEGnArII FRO'.\I WAsnewTox, 
June rn, 18133. 
"To Major General Sanford: 

"The government will be glad to have 
your city regiments hasten to Pennsyh·llnia 
for any length of service ; it is not ·possible!O say how long they might be useful, but it 
is not expecteu that thev would be detained 
ID.ore than three (3) months, possibly not 
ID.ore than twenty (20) or thirty (30.) days. 

"They would be accepted for threemonths, 
and discharged as soon as the present exigency 
is over. If aided at. the present by 
Your troops, the people of that State might 
e?on be able to raise n. sufficient force to relieve 
your city regiments. 

"EDWIX )I. STXXTOX, 
"Secretary of War." 

"..\.LilAXY, June 13, l8Gi3. 
"To Hon. EJwin ~I. Stanton, Secretary of 
War, 'Yashington: 

"About twelve thousand (12,000, men are 
now on the move for Harrisburg, in good 
spirits and well equipped. 

tinue to be forwarde•I ?' Please answer. 
"Nothing from Wn~hinl?'ton since first 
telegram~. ·' .JoIIX T. SPJL\Ol'E. 
·•.\djurnut Gener11l." 

"ALn.txY, June 18, 18G:J. 
"To Gov. Curtin, lfarri~burg, Pa. : 


"About twel•e thousand men arc now 
moving and are under orders for IInrrisburg, 
in good spirits, and well equipped. 

"Gov. Seymour desires to know if he shall 
continue to send men. He is ignorant of 
your real condition. 
"Jons T. SrIL\Gt:E, 
"Adjutant General." 

"BY TELEGRAPII FHO)l\\ASIIIXGTOX, ~ 

June rn, 186:3. 5 
" To Adjutant General Sprague: . 
"The President dirPcts me to retmn h1~ 
thanks to his excellency, Gov. Seymour and 

his staff. for their energetic and prompt action. 
Whether any further force is likely to 
be required will be c0mmunicatcd to you to


morrow, by which time it is expected the 
movement of the enemy will be more fully developed. 
"Ernns )I. ST.\XTOX, 

"Secretary of War." 
Another compliment from "Honest Old 
Abe.'' 

~.\LBAXY, June 20, 18():3. 
"Hon. Edwin )f. Stanton, Secretary of War, 
Washington:

''The Governor desires to he informed if 
be shall continue sending on the militia regiments 
from this State. Ifso, to what extent 

antl to what point? 

"J. B. STOXEHoU•E. 
.Act'g Ass't ..\cljt. Gen." 
·"BY TELEGHA.PlI FRO)l "\L\SIIIXGTOX, ~ 
"June 21, 18G:3 S 
"To Acting Ass't .A<ljt. Gen. Stonehouse : 
"The President desires Gov. Seymour to 


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Carn • paign Char -lie, etc. 

forward to Baltimore all the militia regiments 
that he can raise. 
"Enwrx l\I. STA~Tox, 
"Secretary_ of War." 

"BY TELEGRAPH FRO~I HARillSBURG, ~ 

July 2, 186:3. 5 

"To his Excellency, Gov. Seymour: 

"Send forward more troops as rapidly as 

possible. Every hour increases the necessi


ty for large forces to protect Pennsylvania. 

The battles of yesterday were not decisive, 

and if Meade should be defeated, unless we 

have a large army, this State will be overrun 

by the rebels. 

"A. G. Ct:RTIX, 

''Governor of Pennsylvania." 

"NEW YORK, Jnly 3, 1SG3. 

"To Gov. Curtin, Harrisburg, Pa. : 

"Your telegram is received. Troops will 

continue to be sent. One regiment leaves 

to-night, another to-morrow, all in good 

pluck. ",JonN T. SPRAGUE. 

" .Adjutant General." 

""'AR DEPART'.\IEXT, t 

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"WASIIIXGTOX, June 2i, 18G3 5 

Deat Sir-I cannot forbear expressing 
to you the deep obligations I feel for the 
prompt and candid support you have given to 
the Government in the present emergency. 
"The energy, activity, and patriotism you 
have exhibited I may be permitted personally 
and officially to acknowledge, without arrogating 
any personal claims on my part in 

such service, or any service whatever. 

"I shall be happy to be always esteemed 

your friend. EDWIX )I. STAXTOX. 

"His Excellency, Horatio Seymour." 

In the matter of the New York riots, i\Ir. 
Schumaker read the following proclamations 
of Governor Seymour, and made the remarks 
with which he is credited : 

FIRST PROCLAMATIOX OF GOY. SEY:\IOt"R. 
"To the people of the city of New York: 
"A riotous demonstration in your city, 
originating in opposition to the conscription 
of soldiers for the military service of the 
United States, has swelled into vast proportions, 
directing its fury against the property 
and lives of peaceful· citizens. I know that 
many of those who have participated in these 
proceedings would not have allowed them· 
selves to be curried to such extremes of ;iolence 
and of wrong, except under an apprehension 
of injustice; but such persons are 
:reminded tliat the only opposition to the conscription 
which can be allowed is an appeal 
to the courts. 
" The right of every citizen to make such 
an appeal will be maintained, and the ·decision 
of the courts must be respected and 
obeyed by rulers and people alike. No other 
course is consistent with the maintenance of 
the Jaws, and peace and order of the city; 
and the safety of its inhabitants. 
"Riotous proceedings must and shall be put 
down. The laws of the State of New York 
must be enforced, its peace and order mai_n· 
tnined, and the lives and property of all its 
citizens protected at any and every hazard. 
The rights of every citizen will be properly 
guarded and defended by the Chief )lagistrate 
of the State. 
· I do therefore call upon all persons ~ngaged 
in these riotous proceedings to ret.1re 
to their homes and employments, declarmg 
to them that unless they do so at once I shall 
use all the .power necessary to restore the 
order and peace of the city. I also call upon 
all well disposed persons, not enrolled f?r the 
preservation of order, to pursue their ordinary 
avocations. 
"Let all citizens stand firmly by the constitutional 
authorities, sustaining law and 
order in the city, and ready to answer any 
such demand as circumstances may render 


necessary for me to make upon their services; 
nnd they may rely upon a rigid enforcement 
of the laws of the State against all who violate 
them. Iloi:ATIO SEYlIOUI:, 

'Governor." 

SECO:SD PROCLAl\IATIO:S IlY GOV. SEYlIOUR. 
. "Whereas, It is manifest that combinahons 
for forcible resistance to the laws of 
t~e. State of New York; and the execution of 
c1v1l and criminal process, exist in the cityJ and county of New York, whereby the peace 
_ and safety of the city and the lives and 
property of its inhabitants are endangered· 
and ' 
"Whereas, The power of the said city and 
county has been exerted, and is not sufficient 
to enable the officers of the said city and 
county to maintain the laws of the State and 
exe.~U:~e the legal pr?ces.s of its officers; and 
"hereas, .Application has been made to 
~e bz the Sheriff of the city and county of 
New l:.ork to declar~ the said city andcounty 
to be m a state of msurrection · now therefore, 
' 
"I. lioratio Seymour, Governor of the 
State of New York, and comnrnnder-in-chief 
cf t~e forces of the same, do, in its name and 
by its authority, issue this proclamation in 
accordance with the statute in such cases 
made. and provided, awl do hereby declare 
the city and county of New York to be in n 
state of insurrection, and give notice to all 
pers~ns that the means provided by the laws 
of this State for the maintenance of law and 
order will be employed to whatever degree 
may be necessary, and t11at all persons who 
s~all, after the publication of this proclamation, 
resist, or aid or assi5t in resisting, nny 
force ordered out by the Governor to _quell or 
suppress such insurrection, will render themselves 
liable to the penalties prescribed by 
law. "IloRATIO SEn1~un." 

In relation to the Go>ernor's address to the 
''rioters," about which so much is sought to 

be made, the Ron. ~Ir. Schumaker, of Kings, 

in the Legislature of New York, made the 

following statement, which was not, because 

it could not be, controverted: 

I was there in Broadway at the time not 
conn.ected with. the Metropolitan police,' but 
passmg up and down to see to what extent 
the riot had gone, and I saw the crowd in the 
Park and went over there and saw Gov. Seymour 
addressing them, and I tell gentlemen 
that n mo:e orde:ly gatJierin$ of people I 
never saw .11:1 the c1t_r: of New 1: ork in my life 
at any political meetmg. I could see no riote.
rs there. They were evidently terrorstr1cken 
men-men who had wandered down 
from different parts of the city to the neighborhood 
of the City Hall for the purpose of 
seeing when this bloodshed and riot was to be 
stopped. I know something of men's faces, 
and to me the faces of those men hau fbat 
appearance. They did not look, as the gentleman 
here to-day said they did, like returned 
soldiers and >agabonds; they looked like 
men who 11ad the anxiety of fathers and 
brotbers, like frightened citizens, who had 
gone to the City Hall as the most naturnl 
place to find protection. They heard Gov. 
Seymour. Ile addressed them as "friends.'' 
That, it appears, was a great offense. It 
would seem from what has been said here as 
if the Gevernor shoul<l have said: "You 
cursed scoundrels, what are you doing here~" 
Because there has be·en a riot in New York, 
the Go>ernor was to take it for granted that 
the quiet men before him were rioters, on the 

principle of the Irishman at Donnybrook Fair, 
"wherever yon see a head, hit it." But Gov. 
Seymour took another course. Ile quietly 
addressed those citizens, and they quietly 
went away, and I defy any gentleman to point 
out a single man of that crowd who committed 
any violence either before that time, at 
that time, or after that time. 


CAllPAIGN CHARLIE, CONCLUDED. 

5. 
We're all Democrats together, neither war nor peace 
men now, 
We have vowed to win the battle, and we mean to 
:Keep our vow-
For Hiram and for. Schuyler not a button do we 

care, 
For we'll sweep the field November next with Sey


mour and with Blair. 

Chorus. 

Campaign Charlie is my name, Campaign Charlie ' 
is my name, 
Bound to win the coming fight, my boys, bound to 
win the coming fight, my boys. 
Campaii;n Charlie is my name, Campaign Charlie 
is my nil.me, 

A. rousing, tearing Democrat, my boys_, and good 
for this campaign. 
6. 
rrr:going in to win, boys, for North, South, Eai.t 
and West; 
No man shall bluff me off, boys, I'll do my level 

best, 
And well I know that every man who's here will 
do the same-
Your hand on it. Hurrah! hurrah! We're in 
fo~ this campaign. 

Chorus. 

Campaign Charlie is my name, Campaign Charlie 
is my name, 
Bound to win the coming fight, my boys, bound to 
win the coming fight, my boys. 
Campaign Charlie is my name, Campaign Charb~ 
is my name, 
A rousing, tearing Democrat, my boys, and good 
for this campaign. 

GOVERXOR SEYJIOUR AXD 'l'HE XE\V 
YORI~ RIO'I'S. 


::uayor Opdyke•s Vintlication. 

It is unnecessary for us to defend Governor 
Seymour from the bitter attacks of his opponents. 
That service has been performed 
by members of the Republican party. w·e 
need not trust to hearsay or doubtful expressions. 
Their vindication of him has become 
a part of the oflicial records of the country, 
and no one can dispute or explain it away. 

Hon. George Opdyke, a prominent Repub


lican, was ~layor of the City of Xew York 

during the time of the riots in lSG:J. Ile was 

also a member of the ~tate Constitutional 

Convention. In the course of the debate on 

the Government of Cities, a great deal was 

said about the :Xew York riots. In the 

course of the discussion~ )fayor Opdyke 

spoke as follows. ·we t:i.ke the extract from 

the official report of the Debates: 

)fr. Opdyke.-Go,·ernor Seymour arri>ecl 

on Tuesday morninf!, and came to my rooms 

at the St. :Nicholas Hotel, where he remain


ed with me during the entire riots, except 

that soon after his arrffal he accompanied me 

to the City Hall, where it was not possiule 

for ns to accomplish any good as the riots 

were going on in the upper part of the city, 

and most of all the murders and devastations 

of property were in that part ofthe city. But 

many evil disposed persons had g:l.thered 

about the City llall, · antl the newspaper 

ottices were threatened. l\lv friend from 

Kings (:\Ir. Schumaker] coultl not ha,·e ex


tended his views very far from the steps of 

City Hall or he would not have state1l that 

the mob were so peacefully disposed. Ile 

might ham seen, by externling his vision, 

many scenes like this ; peaceable colored men 

crossing the Park or walking along the streets 

attacked bv crmvds of assailants and t1eeinrr 

for their lives. "" 

l\Ir. Schumaker-I only spoke of the time 
when Governor Seymour was there. 

l\Ir. Opdyke-Perhaps at that very moment 
there might not 11ave been anything of 
that kind. But immediately after he was 
there, those scenes did trans~ire, and on the 
same day a newspaper office, fronting the 
City Hall, was attacked. I now come to the 
point of my advising the Governor to address 
the crowd. I shook mv head when my 
friend from Kings [Mr. "Schumaker] made 
the remark. And, on reflection, while I 
have not the slightest doubt that I concurred 
in recommending it, I am quite sure that 
others suggested that he shouM address the 
crowd. .My colleague, ~Ir. Hntcliins, who 
was present, now informs me that my rec.ollection 
is correct. But the terms in wlnch 
he shonld address them, or what words of 
endearment he should use [laughter] I cer


tainly had nothing to do in suggesting; nor 

had I any share in framing the speech I:e 

made to them. He left verv soon·after, m 

a carriage with :wme friends, to go where 

the riots where taking place, and then return


ed to the St. Xicl10las Hotel, where he r~


mained during the riots. It was not nnt1l 

the military under Gen. Brown, who w~s 

second ·in command to Gen. "'ool, was um· 

ted to the police force, that they succeeded 

in witl1standing and repelling the rioters, 

who outnumbered ten to one the organzed 

force against them. I also urged the poli~e 

commissioners to arm their force. They sa1tl 

they would not llo so without the sanction 

of the Governor. I oftered to take the re· 

sponsibility of making the requisition for t!1e 

arms a!ld furnishing them. But they declm· 

edit. 

1Vlzen Goremm· Seymow· ari·fred, he terY 
cheeiJully wul p;·omptly acquiesced in the 
SllfHJestion, anll gm:e reqiwsitions for arms; 

·.vbich were taken to the police headquart~rs , 
but as the military strenoth was increasrng, 
it turned out there was ~o occasion for the 


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police to use them, though they could have 
been used very etfoctively at an earlier stage 
of the riot. I mean to be entirely just to 
Gov. Seymour in regar~l to his conduct during 
the continuance of the riots, though he bas 
not been just to me. Prior to the riot he 
made a serious misrepresentation of niy official 
conduct in a message to the Legislature, 
of which I asked a public retraction. He 
very frankly and promptly gave a verbal retraction, 
with a promise of gidng one for 
publication. After patiently waiting week 
after week, and month after montl1, du:·ing 
which time that .promise was more than once 
renewed, but never performed, I abandoned 
the effort. It has never been performetl. 
But I have this to say of Gov. Seymour; he 
was surrounded during the riot by many bad 
advisers-scores of them--on some occasions 
I think there were one hundred in my 
room-most of them urging him to exert liis 
influence to with1lraw the military resistance 
to the rioters, and to endeavor to quiet them 
by moral suasion. · 

In opposition to them, nearly every city 
official, all of whom, except myself, were 
democrats, earnestly counseled otherwise, 
and indignantly condemned the advice that 
h~ was receivi1ig from llis 1ilore nu_n1erous 
friends. Antl wltile I thought, sometwies he 
tt.:a.s tacillating, an cl dispo.~ell to hlteifere in 
a manner which, in my jml[/ement, 1r:ould be 
(lisasti·ous to the best interests of the city, it 
iunied out that my apprehensions 1cere 1111foimllf:!
tl. He never yielded to these bad 
counsels, but, TO THE EXD, STOOD FJR)I, 
EVERYTHIXGTHAT IT "\L-\.S POSSIBLE 
FOR HDI TO DO "\VAS DO:N'E, TO AID 
L'~ TIIE SUPPRESSIOS OF THE HIOTS. 
At my instance he gave requisitions .for ar~s 
to scores, and even Imndretls of private c1t1


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zens, whose warehouses or dwellings were 
threatened. He did not hesitate in a single 
instance, whenever I vouched' for the respectability 
of the applicants for arms. On 
one occasion, I think it was Wednesday af:· 
ternoon, a conference was to be hehl among 
the oflicials at the ,police headquarters to determine 
on the line of action and· defense 
during the afternoon anll evening ..My friend 
)Ir. Hutchins, was there at the time, aml will 
confirm the truth of what I say. 

Governor Seymour came in with at least 
twenty of his political anti personal friends, 
among them several gentlemen who were 
very mnch excited, because, as they declaretl, 
the troops under the command of General 
Brown, in the Twi>ntieth "\Vard, were shooting 
down innocent and peaceable ci~iz~ns, 
who had congregated from mere cunos1ty, 
under the excitement that was existing, antl 
that they were not rioters at all. General 
Brown asked if they had not been firing 
buildings and barricatling the streets. They 
answered in the atlirmative, but said it was 
in self-defence. The Genera replied if this 
was not riotincr he did not know what was. 
These gentlem~n urged that Governor Seymour 
should recall the troops, and then they 
pledrred themselves that they would disperse 
the ~rowtl by peaceable means and moral 
suasion. The friends of Govern?r S~ym~t~r 
were uraent that he should exercise lus military 
autl10rity as Governor of the State arnl 
commander-in-chief, to make Gen. Brown 
withdraw his troops. The Governor very 
properly felt, I have no doubt, that he had 
no authority to interfere, at all ernnts he 

did not interfere. 

The police commissioners also joinetl in 
uroin" Gen. Brown to with<Iraw his troops. 
I ,~as0the only one to co11nsel Geu. Brown to 


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turn a deaf ear to any such advice, because 
all history proves that the only way to put 
clown a riot as formidable in its proportions 
as this, was to shoot it down. Ile replied 
with several •expletives which I will not repeat, 
that I neell not give myself any uneasiness, 
that whatever the Governor, or any 
friend of his, or any one else might 
say, no troops under his. command should 
ever retire before a mob unless driven 
back. That spirit and determination of 
General Brown had much to do in inspiring 
all in authority to aid in resisting the 
force of the rioters and in putting them down. 
Though, on many occasions, Governor Seymour 
was advised to interfere, he never did 
interfere, ~'D HIS CONDUCT DURL'G 
THOSE RIOTS l\IET l\IY ENTIRE APPROVAL. 


Horatio t"Jeymonr--Next President. 

A DOB"IlLE ACROSTIC. 

Ile is our choseN chieftain; he shall lead 
O'er victor-fiElds the country to success; 
Reduce the taXes, save us in our need, 
And, makidg greaTer freedom, make laws less. 
This trust we Place to him, nor doubts nor fears 
Invade our peRfect faith. We know this man 
On whom the widEning circles of the years 
Shed larger luStre. Let the critic scan 
Each act of hls whole life with sharpest ken, 
Yet shall he finD no flaw; he is, indeed, 
l\Iost earnest, gEnerous, kindly of all men. 
Oh, worthy couXtrymen, I pray give heed; 
United in thaT common object standRecord 
your votes for him, and voting save 


your land. 

LETTER FROJI MR, DOOLITrLE. 

The Doty of Con..eryative Repnblicaus'
Vhy all 1•atriotic ::Ueu, "'ithout 
Distinction ()f Party, Shonltl 
. Snp1>ort Se~·1nonr anti 
Blair. 

WASHIXGTOX, July 13, 1868. 

O. H. Ostrander, Esq., Dam·ille, Pa.: 
DEAR Sm: I am in receipt of your letter .1 
of the 10th inst., in which, speaking for 
yourself and a number of other Conserrntive 
Republicans of your town, you express 
a "sense of disappointment and regret that 
no better names had been offered bv the 
Democratic party to lead the conservati>e 
and patriotic masses of the people to >ictory, 
and the Radical Republican party to deserving 
and merited defeat. As a gentleman 
and statesman l\Ir. Seymour holds our 
respect, hut as a Peace Democrat we are 
indisposed to vote for him;" and, you are 
pleased to say, that, if my name, among 
others, had been placed at the head of the 
ticket, "all· would have gone well, and 
victorv would have been certain." You 
desirew my opinion upon the situation nnd 
"the prospects of a third party." 

I thank you for the confidence thus reposed 
in me, and shall not shrink from the 
responsibility of stating frankly my opinion. 

I do not think the organization of any 
third party is wise, or can work any. practical 
good to the great cause in which we 
arc engaged. In the very nature of things, 
when great principles are at stake, th~re 
are, and there can he, but two effecti>e 
political parties. "Ile that is not for me, 
is against me," in politics as well as in ;eligion, 
is a truth upon which every wise 
man is compelled to act. 

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glo -nous Un ion fall! 

What, then, is the great and paramount 
issue? What is the great and unpardonable 
wrong for which the Radical party is 
now arraigned and should be overthrown? 

It is substantially this: 

In violation of the Constitution-in violation 
of pledges made and often repeated, 
from the first battle of Bull Run to the end 

.f of the war ; pledges to the North to get men 
and money; pledges especially made to the 
Democracy to get their support in the field 
and in the elections ; pledges made to the 
South to induce them to lay down their allegiance, 
and pledges to foreign powers to 
prevent intervention-in violation of all 
these solemn pled~es, upon which we invoked 
the blessing of Almighty God upon 
our cause, and by which alone we gained 
s~rength to master the rebellion-in violation 
of the natural and inalienable right of 
the civilized men of every State to govern 
themselves, and in violation of !he clear 
provisions of the Constitution which leaves 
·to each State for itself the right to regulate 
suffrage, this party has, without trial by 
ex post facto laws, disfranchised hundreds 
of ~housands of the most intelligent of their 
citizens, and has forced upon ten States 
and six millions of our own Anglo-Saxon 
race the universal and unqualified suffrage 
?f seven hundred thousand ignorant, and, 
in the main, half-civilized negroes. 
This is the great wrong for which that 
party is arraigned at the bar of public judgment, 
and for which it should be overthrown. 

To consummate that great wrong, they 
h~:e abolished all civil government and· 
I civil liberty, even in these ten States; .. 

~... They have establishe~ five a~solute m_1htary 
despotisms, wherem all rights to hfe, 

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liberty, and property, are subject to the will 

of one man; 

. They have kept the Union divided; 

They have prevented the restoration of 

industry; • 

They have kept down the credit of the 

Government, during three years of peace, 

to a point so low that, to the shame of every 

American, the six per cent. bonds of the 

United States sell for only 73 in gold, while 

the bonds of Brazil, bearing only four per 

cent. interest, bring over 90 in gold. 

They have encroached. upon the just 

rights of the Executive; 

They have threatened the independence 

of the Supreme Court; 

They have unjustly, and without cause, 
impeached and put upon trial the President 
himself, and, by every species of denunciation, 
and even by threats of assassination, 
have endeavored to force the Senate to convict 
him, in order to place in the executive 
chair one who will use all its power to consummate 
that gigantic wrong against the 
Constitution, against our plighted faith, · 
a(J'ainst civilization, and against our own 
r~ce and kindred. 

'l'he Convention in New York met for the 
purpose of organizing to overthrow the 
party in power for this great wrong, and to 
restore the Union and Constitution, and the 
rights of the States and of all the St~tes 
under it. Now, I do not say the nommations 
made at New York are the very best 
that could have been made for that purpose. 

The elements to be organized into a victorious 
army were four-fold. To use a military 
fi,.,ure, there were four•army corps to 
be org~nized into one grand army: 

First. The great Democratic Corps : 


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Second. The War Demoeratic Corps: 

Third. The Conservative Republican 
Corps: 

Fourth. The Civilized Southern Corps. 

The first, or Democratic Corps, was fully 
organized, ~ith ranks well filled, but not 
in sufficient numbers to secure the victory. 

There was the War Democratic Corps, 
which supported Lincoln in 1864; but 
which in consequence of the great wrong 
above mentioned, was ready to sever itself 
from the Radical Army under General 
Grant; and there was the· Conservafrrn · 
Republican Corps, of which you are pleased 
to speak of me as a leader, who, for the 
E:ame reasons, were ready to join the Grand 
Army, and do all in their power to bring 
success to our cause. 

The two last are the recruiting corps. 
They hold the balance of power. As a 
matter of policy, had the first office hecn 
given to a chief of the one or of the other, 
it would have made our victory more easy, 
if not certain. 

Everybody knows that the result of this 
contest is to depend upon the important 
question, whether we shall be able to recruit 
those two crops in sufficient numbers, and 
carry them to the hearty support of l\Ir. 
Seymour. Ifwe can, victory is with us; if 
we cannot, victory is against us. 

In my judgement, it is our duty to do so. 
The verv life of the Constitution is involved 
and, with it the rights of the States and the 
liberties of the people. 

I cannot hesitate one moment; my judgment 
is for it; my whole heart is in it. So 
far from relaxing, we ~hould redouble our 
efforts. Bear \n mind that the war was 
ended three years a~o, when a new era was 
opened in political affairs; that ~Ir. Seymour 
is a man of high character, of unquestioned 

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patriotism, of great ability and ·experience, 
wholly with us upon the living and paramount 
issue; and that, if elected, he will 
make a most able and dignified President ; 
and certainly no Pennsylmnian will forget 
that, but for his promptness and energy in 
forwarding the forces of New York to. Gettysburg, 
that great battle might have been 
lost and Pennsylvania overrun. "\Yhlle in 
General Blair we have a civilian and a 

soldier, whose promptness and indomitable ; 

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resolution seized Camp Jackson and saved 
l\Iissouri from secession; who always stood 
among the foremost of the war Republicans, 
in council and in the field, while the war 
lasted; and, when it was over, was among 
the first to demand that for which the war 
was prosecuted-the Union of the States 
under the Constitution, with. their rights, 
equality, and dignity unimparcd. 

Let us unite for a victory I Let us have 
peace-a peace which comes not from a violated 
Constitution, and the despotism of the 
sword, but a peace which comes from a 
restored Union and the supremacy of con-· 
stitutional law, by which alone liberty is 
secured. Uespectfully yours, 

J. R. DOOLITTLE. 
STRAWS.-" I shall have no policy of my 
own."~GE::.. GRANT. 

" That man deserves to be a slave who 
would vote for a mum candidate when his 
liberties are at stake.''-GEN. JACKSON. 

"Probably Gen. Grant can afford to l)e a 
tleaf-and-dumb candidate, but tliis country 
cannot afford to elect a deaf-and-dumb President."-
HORACE GREELEY. 

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free • dom and law, Hur -rah for the land of the free. 

" The ,Party, and its Record." 

The men who met at Chicago to nominate 
Grant for President are not strangers 
to the people. They are known by their 
crimes. Here is a synopsis of their record : 

They incited the bloody civil war togratify 
partizan hate ; 
· '.l'hey speculated on the best blood of the 

American people ; 1 They so loved the profits of the war that 
; they refused to take peace when the enemy 

surrendered ; 
For three years they have resisted the restoration 
of the Union ; · 
They abolished ten State Governments 
and established a military instead; 

They opposed the supremacy of the Federal 
Constitution in war as a military necessity; 


'l'hey imprisoned men for exercising the 
freedom of speech; 
They have suppressed the presses for denouncmg 
treason to the Government; 
They have disfranchis.ed a large portion 
of the people for opposin"' dissolution; 

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Tliey ham attempted to abofo1h the independence 
of the Executive department, 
and to annihilate the Constitutional powers 
of the President; 

They have attempted to destroy the juris~
iction of the Supreme Court and demoralize 
the Judiciary; 

They have impeached the President for 
defending the Constitution, and attempted to 
· secure his disposal by intimidating and cor


rupting the Senate ; 

They have supported a greedy throng of 
partizan lazaroni from the public treasury 
under the pretense of reconstructing the 
States· 

They have pensioned an army of parti


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zans on the treasury under pretence of pro


tecting Southern negroes and paupers ; 

They have taxed the country o-rer five 

hundred millions in a single year of peace, 

and squandered the bulk of it on schemes 

designed for personal and partizan profit; 

They have excused the bondholders and 

manufacturers from taxation and imposed 

additional taxation upon commerce, labor 

and trade; 

They have assumed the power in a partizan 
caucus at Washington to dictate local 
laws for sovereign and independent States; 

They have converted Congress into a den 
of political speculators and partisan gamblers; 


These are but some of the deeds of the 
party whose representatives assembled at 
Chicago on the 20th ult. It is safe to say 
that the delegates who composed the ConYention 
and their immediate partisan friends 
have robbed the people of not less than a 
thousand millions for their individual benefit 
within the past three years. Four-fifths of 
them miO'ht be dismissed from office to-morrow, 
Gra~t included, without detriment to 
the public senice. 

Forney on Seyn1our. 

In June 1863, John W. Forney thus 
spoke of Gov. Seymour in the Philadelphia 

Press: 

" IIon or to Xew York I Iler Governor 
has acted like a man who knows when the 
time for parti~ci.nship is at a~ end. Her ~allant 
Seventh is now at Harnsburg, and side 
hy side with oi:r bray~ Penmylrnni.an~, 
preparing ~o. resist the mvaders. Tlns is 
the true sp1r1t of brotherly love. Pennsylvania 
will not forget GoY. Seymour." 


GENERAL A. SAUNDERS PIArrT, DESERTS THE 
RADICALS . 

.A1~D JOINS THE DE~IOCRACY. 

HIS SPEEillI AND HIS REASONS. 

'VEST LIBERTY, Omo, AuG. 14, 1868. 

A large number of Democratic neighbors of General A. Saunders Piatt repaired 
to his residence last evening, and _after some very sweet music from the 
'Vest Liberty Brass Band, called upon that gentleman for a speech. General 
Piatt said :· 

MY FELLOW DE~IOCRATS AXD NEIGHBORS :-I need not tell you how. 
deeply I appreciate this complimentary demonstration. I feel it the more from 
the fact that it gives me an opportunity to say a few things I wish to say publicly. 
No one knows better than I, the strength of party association. Next to 
patriotism to one's country, comes loyalty to one's party, and the ties binding 
the last can not be severed without attaching a certain amount of blame to the 
individual who secedes. One is anxious, therefore, to give his reasons for such 
severance, and justify himself, ifpossible, for the course he takes. 

In a few words then, .let me say that I am disloyal to the Republican organization 
because I seek to be patriotic to my Government. [Applause.] Understand 
me, I attach no blame whatever to my late policical associates. I believe 
the great mass to be honest, earnest and patriotic, and that patriotism they have 
asserted by their blood upon all the battle-fields, and their lives in all the 
hospitals, of the late war. But it does not follow, on that account, that as a 
party, heated by partizan zeal, they are not as dangerous to the Republic a::; 
the men themselves they went out to fight. 

I believe it was the design of the fathers in the formation ofour Government, 
to secure our National independence through the General Government at 
'Vashington, and the rights of the citizens through the State organizations. 
need not take your time and waste my breath in illustrating, or, rather, demonstrating 
this fact. No one fact is clearer to the student of constitutional law 
than this. It may have been a dream of the fathers, and quite impracticable 
in execution, but it was the design, and until it is found impossible, I propose 
to assist in giving it life and strength. [A.pplause.] 


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, Long before the late war broke upon us, the power of the General Govern4 
ment had fallen into disuse. The States arrogated to themselves all' the power 

that had before been delegated to the grand Central Government. I need refer 
to only a few instances to demonstrate my meaning. Citizens of Massachusetts 
were seized and i~prisoned in South Carolina for merely exercising the rights 
guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. :Massachusetts in return 

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enacted laws that equally set at defiance the rights of South Carolina under our 
Constitution. The right to regulate exchange and furnish a National currency 
was usurpe~ by the States, and our land was flooded with irredeemable trash 
called paper money, that enriched a few "Shylocks" at the expense ofthe many. 
Each State had its code of Jaws in antagonism to her sister States, and to this 
day you cannot travel through New Jersey without paying tribute to that 
State in direct violation of the compact under which the fathers proposed we 
should live in peace and good feeling. That State was not alone to blame. 
We have our own sins to answer for in that ·direction. Why, my fellowcitizens, 
the General Government had fallen so low, that 1'·hen the l\Ie:xican 
war came our President, instead of resorting to the draft, had to call for vol. 
unteers, and humbly solicit the Governors of States to furnish him aid in the 

support of our National flag on the field of battle. 

This sort of practice and their evil teachings continued until they culminated 

in secession. South Carolina avowed her right, and appealed to the wager of 

·battle in its support, to ~ithdraw from the Union in the same way that she had 

entered the Union. · · 
My fellow citizens, and especially my Democratic friends, when a man is 
asked to become a Siamese twin he has an undoubted right to refuse. But 
having consented to be one ~fa Siamese twins be C'J.n not seYer the ligature 

without consulting the health and inclination of his brother twin. [Laughter. 
and cheers.] South Carolina had the unquestioned right to refuse to enter the 
Union, but having become one of many, her right is merged in the .rig~ts of 

~11, and an attempt to exercise such privilege of her own moti\·e is s1mp Y rebellion, 
or, if you will, revolution. 
Unfortunately for the country, unfortunately for humanity, the Democrat~c 

party committed this grave error. Then it was I left the Democratic . 
party-:-I left my motherless children and my individual witnesses, and went to 
the field when South Carolina and her erring sisters b~d thrown down the glove 

and stood armed to the teeth to battle for the wrong. [Long and loud applause.] 
I did then what I should do again-and in my. last hour, yea, in my dying 
moments I believe I· foel that I shall find consolation in the remembrance 
that in tl;e deadly hour of my country's peril I stOod in the smoke of battle, 
where deadly missiles carried desolation to the. households, and fought for our 
ffag and our Government. {Re.newed and long continued applause.] 

'Ve were victorious and flushE-d with victory we now swing over to the · 
other extreme. This Is. human nature, and heated by partisan zeal ::ind led by 


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. faction we hasten to do on the other extreme as great an evil as that proposed 
by the secessionists. The Republican party is wiping out State rights and centralizing 
unconstitutionally all power at "\Vashingtoii. This is as fatal to the 
liberty of the citizens as was that other fatal to our-independence. . I left the 
Democratic party and took up arms against anarchy and .disorder. I now 
leave the Republican party and take up arms against despotism. [Applause.] 

RECONSTRUCTION. 

·when the late war came to an end, which it did with the dispersion ofthe Con


federate armies and a surrender of their officers, there was a pressing demand 

for high statesmanship on the part of the political organization then holding 

control of the Government, and this statesmanship meant forbearance, forgive


ness and brotherly kindness. Had we conquered another people-had we over


run a foreign province, we might have followed the course of war and dictated 

punishment to the conquered. 

But these were our own citizens-their country was a part of our country


they were of ourselves, and, come weal, come woe, it is our destiny to win them 

if we wish to retain the Republic as it is and as our fathers destined it to be. 

Then our best policy, I may say our only policy, was one of kindness. 'Ve _ 

should have sought to heal the wounds and quiet ~he irritation that came of 

long partisan strife and deadly war. We might have failed, but it was our 

duty to try. And there is that which responds to the kindness of a bra~e 

nature, that you can always build upon. ·we had conquered, we could afford 

to forgive. 'Ve should then have been as generous as we had been courageous, 

and treating the brave men of the South like men, we should have given them, 

all their rights as citizens and said, come, let us be brothers. 

That the South was prepared for submission to any reasonable terms at the 

close of the war; I am prepared to believe. If any one doubts this, let him 

read the report made by General Grant to Andrew Johnson, on returning from 

the tour of inspection at the South, ordered by the acting President. I am 

sorry that I have not this reportto read now in support ofmy position~ Either 

Gen. Grant was exceedingly stupid or very dishonest, if that report is untrue. 

His followers will scarcely admit either supposition. 

Instead of the statemanship 9f love, we bad, in all its wrath, the partisanship 

of bate. '"e sought to degrade the men we had fought, and destroy the very 

foundation of our Government in our eagerness to punish. State lines were 

wiped out, and military districts formed and put under the control of men 

ignorant of law, and who squared their actions b): the regulations of the bar


rack-room and the drill. Of the imme material courts were formed, organized 

to convict, and property, liberty, and life itself, made subject to the arbitrary 

will of a little, mean, military· despot. States have, in fact, ceased to exist. 

Why, gentlemen, it was but the . other day that a commission appointed by 

Congress went into Kentu.cky to investigate the characters of Congressmen 

elected from that State, and report upon the sort of voters that made their con


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stituents. They had the same right to send. a committee to the Fourth Congressional 
District of Ohio, and dictatP. to you who should be your Represen


tative, and the process by which you may become his constituents. I raise my 
voice not only in behalf of the South, but for all the State~, and all the people. 
I protEst against this usurpation, against despotic centralization of power. 
[Applause.] I would have universal am~esty al)d universal suffrage. I believe 
the white races are able to take care of themselves, and if they are not, 
no legal disability can save them. 'Yith this change only, and it is one of the 
results of the war we could not prevent, nor were we disposed to prevent, I 
would replace these States precisely as they were before the war. It is the duty 
of the Democracy, should it haye power, to wipe out these so-called Acts of 
Reconstruction, and dig down and bring to light once more the old Jandmarks 

of the fathers. [Loud applause.] This can be done quickly and peaceably. 
Thank God, we yet have the ballot-box and the ballot, and if the American 
people c~n only awaken to reason, and do their duty, the great work-the real 
work-of reconstruction will be accomplished. 

PARTIES. 
I return to you, my old Democratic friends, to :find still existing the old 
Democratic principles that once made us powerful; and the same clear line of 
demarkation that ran through the land, dividing the two political parties, yef 
exists. I find still recognized the old doctrine that the only use of a Govern


ment is to keep the peace, and the better sort is that which leayes the _largest 
freedom of action to the citizen. It does not, therefore, seek to interfere with 
the laws of trade, the religion of the Church, or the customs of society. The 
Republican party, which is the successor of the old "1iig organization, that in 
turn came from the Federal party of the Revolution, regards the Government 
as the guardian, or rather the parent of the people. Hence the class legislation 
that has so disturbed us during the last eight years. \\'e are not only 
made to pay heavily for the support of an extravagant Government, but we are 
forced to sustain claims of trade that it is asserted are too feeble to stand alone. 
Let me give you one example: W"hen this war broke out the Republican party, 
then left in power by the secession of Southern members of Congress; passed a 
tariff law that amounted to prohibition. Thus protected, the manufacturers of 
New England ran their mills at full time, and realized vast profits. Now, at a 
time when of all others we needed cheap articles, we were forced to pay high 
prices, and while sustaining huge armies ~n the field on one side, we 'vere forced 

to sustain a huge monopoly on the other. And it is difficult to tell with accu. 
racy which was the more expensive of the two. · 
This system of class legislation has continued until it has absorbed all the 
·moneyed capital of the country, and until it is combined into one' great body, 

and forms the soul of"the Republican party. Each moneye~ interest, thus legislated 
for, plays into the hand of the other moneyed interest, until all com


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SPEECH OF GE:N". PIATT. 

manufacturer without bringing upon yourself the bondholder and the banker, 
nor assail the bondholder 'vithout experiencing a defence from the manufacturer. t 
Indeed, I believe now they may be estim.ated as one body, for as the manufacturer 
realized his profits he invested his bonds, that (escaping taxation)formed a 
tempting investment; while the banking system, the most oppressive ofall the 
impositions, is based upon the public securities. 

NATIOXAL BANKS. 

Inseparable instruction. The operators form one class of bondholders, from 
which they gather the gold interest, and on which they issue their own indebtedness 
and draw interest on that. Thus, with ten per cent. as the interest .enacted 
on both, they draw from their actual capital the net sum of twenty per 
cent., and in return they get their actual capital back, and in five years double 

the amount. Now, when we remember that this capital was purchased of the 
Government in depreciated paper, so that its actual cost would not be more 
than fifty cents on the dollar in gold, we see what a precious system we have 
built up to our own ruin. The legislation defeated by Mr. Johnson, but which 
received the sanction ofthe party in Congress, called "Sherman's Funding Bill," 
passed us, bound neck and heels, into the power of the banker, for it made the 
face of the bonds purchased, as I have told you, gold. 

Now, to bring this matter home ; you go to the nearest National Bank for 
the accommodation of a loan-and they were created for your accommodation


and yon are charged, we will say, one per cent. a month, and you take home your 
accommodation, and you find the so-called money to be your own notes, issued 
by the Government that taxes you to pay this banker for his kindness to· use 
your credit. Small wonder that while we get poor1;;r these men get rich and 
own islands an cl build palaces. [A voice-"'Ve've been cooked enough that 
way."J It is the duty of the Democratic party to call in the circulation of the 
National Banks and put an end to their extortion. 

PAYME.ST OF BOSDS. 

We have lost more through this monstrous system of banking, through bounties 
paid manufacturers, through a depreciated paper, than we have from goldbearing 
bonds, about which so much excitement prevails. 

Now, I am in favor ofmeeting our obligations honestly and fairly. Repudiation 
in any form, direct or indirect, is abhorrent to me. I believe it is to 
the great mass of honest, hard-working sons of the Democracy. But let us not 
be alarmed by hard names or prompted from the right path by loud cries. 
And first of all, let us clear away some of the rubbish that has accumulated 
about it. Whenever you approach this subject, 'the bondholder or his dependent 
assumes high moral ground, and asks us to hold sacred the obligation made 
to repay those who, in our hour of peril, gave their means to sustain the Government. 
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Now, this obligation is just as sacred as that entered inw with the people to l·.···· 

make good the promises that in shape ofpaper money was issued to them. It . 


SPEECH OF GEX. PIATT. 

~s just as sacr~d as that made the soldier who volunteered, to 1)ay him regularly 

m gold. It is that and no more. Every promise made by a Governmmt 

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should be held sacred, and fulfilled to the letter of the law. · [Applause.] But 
your talk about this money being paid in the hour of our Government's peril 
is not true. 'Yhen the war raged at its height, when the result was doubtful, 
capital, that is ever timid and cautious, held back. Very few investments 
were made when it was uncertain whether 'Vashington would be the capital of 
a nation or a capital of the Confederacy.· Then it was the Government rested 
on the faith of the people, and issued that other indebtedness called greenback. 
But when Richmond fell and the war was at an end, these securities was seized 
upon as an investment. Itwas a pure business transaction, and had about as 

much patriotism in it as any other business transaction, when the capitalists 
seeks to get the highest rate of interest for his money. ;~. 

This is no reason why we should not live up to our obligations; butitclea r 

the question of much feeling that is apt to mislead the judgement. This sen


sitiveness in regard to tlrn sound character of National obligations is very fine 

indeed; but it comes a little late. I remember a law tliat promised to pay us 

soldiers during the war in gold. For awhile we had the precious metal. Then 

the paymaster brought greenbacks and gold; and gave us our choice, and then, 

he brought only greenbacks. I never heard any indignation expressed over this 
· violation of a sacred contract. [Applause.] 

· But let it go. We are bound to pay these people, and they clai_m in gold 

Very well, we will pay them in gold. That is, we ·will give them in gold precisely 
what they paid in gold. No more, no less. Their proposition is for us 
to pay in gold for what they purchased in greenbacks. This is not the con_ 
tract, nor is it just. "\Ve do not intend to have one currency for the people 
and another for the bondholder. If any Congress so far forgot its duty and 
transgressed its powers, such Congress can not bind its successors, and we would 
repeal the law rather than enslave the people. There is no tyranny so crue 
and oppressive as that of money, and we will never submit to be hewers Of 
wood and drawers of water to Shylock, let them have bonds ever so strong 
[Loud applause.] Fortunately we can fulfill our obligations without violence 
to any provision in them. 

T~'\:A.TIOX. 

There is a solution of this bond question now pending that will be, when it 
comes, both startlin(J' and unpleasant. I refer to our ability to pay. If this 

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reckless extravagance on the part of our Government continues, the question 
promises to be not whether we will pay, but whether we can pay. 'Ye may 
not repudiate but we may become bankrupt, and if any one wil1 add to the 
National indebtedne:o;H t11t~ Btate, town and township indebtedne5s, each one as 
sacred as the other and then estimate the value of property by the world's currency 
of gold and ~ilver, to which we must come sooner or later, he will ap


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SPEECH OF GEN. PIA.TT. 

our products-we· know how har~ it now is to raise our taxes. ·what will it 
be when on a specie basis-our currency is reduced and prices lowered. Bear I' 
in mind that the tax remains the same. s 

Our navy, the most expensive luxury a Government can indulge in, is kept 
up on a war footing. Our army reserved to keep the peace in the South and 
on the frontier is five times greater than it need be. A huge alms-house is 
kept running at the South for the benefit of indolent negroes and hungry officials. 
At a time when our necessities call for the strictest economy, when the 
Government ought to be on a peace footing, as it was in 1861, there is no limit. 
to the expenditures; and we find ourselves the heaviest taxed people in the 
world. I can very well unde~·stand all this. Senator Sherman, the leading 
financier of the Republican party, promised us to support the Government and 
pay the ii~erest on the National debt by a tax on whisky and t<?bacco. He 
really believed this, and his party, so believing, has felt itself at liberty to 
make the most profuse expenditures. Our Representative in Congress, my · 
worthy friend, Judge Lawrence, introduced a bill to make a ship canal from 
the Ohio to Lake Erie, touching at the Lewistown Reservoir, in this county 
Of course, believing that 'Ye were relieved from the burdens of taxation through 
whisky and tobacco, the Judge felt he could not do better wit1=i a few milions 
than to expend it in Logan County about the Lewisto\\n Reservoir. [Laughter.] 
· 

The tax on whisky and tobacco has proved a failure. Instead of collecting. 
a great deal of money for t!ie good of the Government, we have collected vast 
sums for the benefit of a corrupt few, that now, organized as a "ring," take a 
hand in the control.of our Government. On the other hand, the tax collector 
is ever at your door. If he does not come in one shape, he is there in another, 
and you can scarcely compute your income· return before the State officials 
make their appearance, and in their absence the stamp is in continual use. 

CORRUPTION. 

I don't mean to assert that the Republican party is a corrupt party. I believe 
it to be as pure and honest as any political organization ; but I do assert .i 

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that its profuse expenditure, unequal taxation and monstrous system of bounties 
have demoralized the people and carried corruption into every department 
of our Government. One of its leaders, and you see I quote only Republican 
authority, [laughter and applause] had the frankness to say in a late publicatioo: 
· 

"Through the unsettled condition of a country suffering from civil 'vars we 
have developed more rascality than any organization ever called into existence. 
We have filled the offices with thieves and their pockets with stealings. We 
have organized rings that in turn create office-holders and control the Government. 
l\Ien go in poor and come out millionaires. For one dollar paid to 
the Government, from hard-earned taxes hundreds stick to the dirty fingers of 
official Ecounclrels. We have whisky rings, Indian Burem.,rings,manufactur



SPEECH OF GEX. PIATT. 

ing national bank rings, railroad rings, land-jobbing rings and internal 
improvement rings. From the lowest officials up to Senators and Cabinet of


~ ficers, the taint of corruption runs, until the people, dazed and confused, confound 
the right and listen with indifference to the threats of exposure." 
Ifthis continues, and becomes chronic, we may bid farewell to a republican 
form of Government. Our fathers based their beautiful structure on the virtue 
and intelligence of the citizen. It has no other foundation, and failing in that 
it will soon be a mass of ugly ruins. And money corruptly used and factions 
blindly led are sapping that foundation. This moneyed power meets us at 
every turn, and on every side. It can offer fortunes to the greedy, and high 
office to the ambitious. Already we see a soldier eminent in the field, and 
strong in the councils of the nation, giving his name and influence to this power, 
that in turn it may elevate him to the Cl~ief ::Magistracy, and gratify his feverish 
ambition. ,ye are being sadly tried. All the stormy passions engendered by 
aterrible war; all the blind prejudice built up by partisan strife; all the pride 
of sectim'i and the admiration for the great are being appealed to by unscrupulous 
leaders who have long since sunk their love of country in 'their loyalty to 
party and the selfish gratification of their avarice or their ambition. [Applause.] 
If we arise calmly above those influences; if, as patriotic men, we shut our . 
eyes to temptations, and look only to the good of all, we shall have won for 
our party great praise, and for our country renewed strength and a longer life. · 
I [Loud cheering.] · 

COXCLUSION. 

Again I thank you for this compliment. I am glad to be with you once 
more. I return, after a separation of nine years, to the associates of my youth, 
and I breathe freer in the pure atmosphere of the old Democracy. Let us be 
slow to forget all that is goocl in the past, ancl quick to learn allithat is true in 
the future. As a party of progress-a party of intelligence-the party of the 
people-the representative of labor-I am with you. l\Iy voice may be weak, 
but please God I propose that my words shall be strong. And for your kind 
welcome I return my heart-felt thanks. [Great applause.] 



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Ila La Conr's ImDroved Seidlitz Powders PreDared for the Southern Climate 

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WILL BE PUBLISHED IN .fl FETY D.11. YS. 

THE DEMOCRATIG GLEE ,BOOK.

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For the THREE l\IONTHS commencing August 29th, and ending November 
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Covering the heat of the contest, and closing (if we are true to ourselves,) with 
a VICTORY, GLORIOUS AND COMPLETE! 


In the Campaign just commencing, the press of our country is destined to 
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must depend for success not upon enthusiasm or excitement, but upon sound, 
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to put forth his utmost efforts to disseminate among the people the great principles 
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The proprietors of THE AGE have placed their ·weekly AGE for the Campaign 
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WRIGHT &, SIDDALL, 



DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS IN DYE STUFFS, PAINTS, GLASS, 
PERFUMERY, TOILET SOAPS, CORKS, TOOTH BRUSHES, 
CHAMOIS SKINS, SPONGES AND PATENT 
MEDICINES IN ALL THEIR VARIETY. 


Being prepared to fill at the shortest notice all orders from the smallest quantity requir~
d _by the .P.hysicians. to repl~nish his outfit, to fitting out t~e largest establishment, we 
mv1te Physicians, Retail Druggists and Country .Merchants to grrn our house a trial, as with 
the facilities we possess, we are enabled to offer genuine and reliable articles in our line at 
prices that cannot fail to give satisfaction; parties desiring to purchase or wishinO' to compare 
our prices or goods with those of other houses, are invited to call at our establishment or 
communicate with us by mail. . 

'Ve are general agents for the following reliable standard preparations, 


made of the clean fresh Rennet of the Calf, preserved with white wine, one teaspoonful added 
to a pint of milk, forming in a few minutes a firm curd, making a most delicious dessert. 

With this Liquid Rennet a dozen tempting dishes can be produced, furnishing a healthy 
article of food for family use, or a nutritious and easily digested diet for infants or the sick 
room. 

ASK FOR TllOI'tIPSON'S and take no other, as it is double the strength of any 
other made, and besides it nei·er fails. RETAIL PRICE 25 CE!'TS PER BOTTLE. 

TOMLINSON'S BUTTER PO'WDER, 

PREPAR.ED BY TOMLINSON & CO., LINCOLN, ENGLAND. BY ITS USE 

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CHURNING IS lHADE EASY, 

~mdl ®QQd) Wr~~h ~tttt~r Q~rt bi~ tt~H~ aEU th~ lJ~ar r?Qlt£M~" 

In hot weather this powder makes butter much firmer and sweeter than it usually is, 
making it come speedily, preventing it from getting rancid and also removing the strong 
flavor resulting from cows feeding on turnips, wild garlic, weeds, dead leaves, &c. 


It will increase the Quau1ity aml im}Jl'Ol'e tile Quality. 

By the use of this Butter Powder, bad jlat·or and rancillity can be remo1:ecl from butter already 
made up, by well washing it with cohl water in which the powder has been dissoh-ed. RETAIL 
PRICE 25 CE~TS PER PACKAGE. 

ISABELLA FACE WASH OR LICORDEMENA. 

This is a purely vegetable preparation, essentially differing in this respect from other inju· 
rious washes for the complexion, which are mainly composed of corrosive sublimate and 
other metallic poisons; this preparation will invariably remove Pimples, Blotches and Freckles, 
and is THE ONLY ARTICLE THAT WILL PREVENT AND RE:~IOYE SUN 
BURN, gfring the skin a soft, pearly and relvety appearance. RETAIL PRICE 25 CEXTS PER 
BOTTLE. . ' 

'Ve ha-ve always on hand fine Brandy, Wine and 'Vhiskey for medicinal use, warranted 
strictly pure, as ou·r stock is carefully selected in bond expressly for our sn.les. 

WRIGHT & SIDDALL, Druggists, 

119 Jl...Carket; Street, Pbiladelpli.ia. 

Persons wishing sample article~ of anything i~ oui: line, can have _them safely expressed 
to any part of the continent by semlmg us the retail price, and addressmg us as above. 


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BROWNING'S 

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l\IADE UPON STRICTLY SCIENTIFIC 
PRINCIPLES. 

Thb is entire!; different from any other ever offered to the public. Its composition will vary, 
and contains such ingredients only as the tree, fruit, plant or crop for which it. is intended requires: 
ther~l y enabling the lrnye: to aYoid purch,u;ing a large quanti~y of what he does not 
w"nt, in order to get a small quantity of what he really does want, which I know, from experience, 
is tnie with many, if not all of the phosphates that are in the market. X o fertilizer can 
be good and cheap at the same price for two crops whose constituents are entirely different ; 
it may be good for bot11, but must be dear for one or the other. For example; if a phosphate 
should contain ingredients that would be cheap for wheat, at any given price, it is absurd to 1 
think that the phosphate woultl be equally clienp at the same price for another crop, whose con-, 
stitueuts are entirely different. .It cannot contain ingredients for two articles of an entirely: 
different nature in such proportions as to be equally cheap for one as the other. I am confhlent'' 
that there is a great deal ofmoney thrown aw3y for phosphates of different kinds, from the fact· 
that they did not contain what th? d~sired crop ne~ded ;.. and i~any cases the crop woultl haYe 
been better without it at all; while if the same artrnle liau been•used for other crops of a different 
nature, it would have doubly paid for its cost. I have been carefully experimentin.,. for 
several years. and any one who will take the trouble to visit my farm ,'near ElUsb11rg, X. .T.,, 
jice rnil1:.'5 from Comden, where I am const:mt1y experim:.>nting, may see where I produce a 
...rowth upon Peach and Peal' trees of six feet six i-nches in one season, nncl fruit upon the same 

,~nusual1y hrge and tine, :'"hile trees right alo1_1gside, eqm1l~y good in eYery respect, not having 
the phosphate on them, did not grow one foot m the same time, arnl produced no· fruit at all. I 
will be prepared to furnish,· at short notice, a phosphate for an acre of fruit.,-uine or tree f1·11it.


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an<l all ordinary plants or crops that are grown in this country, such as wheat, rye, con1, gra.-,i.<1, 
antl all kinds of vegetable>!. , 

The reader will pleasebear in mind that in sending orders, the article for which it is intenc1e1l 
to he usetl must be ml':nfione<l, and kind of soil also, if you wish the worth of your money. As I 
hnve :::aid befoi·e. two articles of an entirely clifferent nature must not be furnished with the same 
kind of foo11; the article I prepare for grains wouhl be dear at half its cost for fruit.-and 
i:ice ren:rr. 

PRICE OF BROWNING~s EXCELSIOR PHOSPHATE: 

For Fruit Trees aml (-;rape Yines, $05 per ton: for all other Crops, $GO per ton, put. up in 
Barre.ls containing from 215 to :125 ~bs each. · o::?'All that is asked is a fair trial alongside ofany 
other .fertilizer at any price, Peruvian Guano not excepted. · 

Browning's Insect Preventive, for the protection of plants against the ravaO'es of the 
Bug nnd Worm. Also, beneficial us a· fertilizer. Ten Cents per pound. [G?'Se~ circulars 
fo.r directions. 

. Also for S~le, Peruvian Bon~,J?us~, Warn~nted.Stricf(IJ Purc_-Such as I use in man


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ufacturmg my Pho~pl1ate. Ih1s l>one Dust is m~defrom bones direct from slaughter-houses, 
containiiw0 all the nrtues that bones possess. ltis seldom tlrnt you can "et bone-dust of this 
quality. Sample will be sent by _mail on receipt of P. 0. stamp. It is fine as flour nntl"will 
act quiekly. llone Dust pu~ up m .bni;<> ~f 200 p~mnds eac~. PRICE $fj0 PEit To:'.'1. · Orders 
for one ton and upwards <lehvered I~ I lulat.lelphrn, O!' nt either of the Camden depots free 
charge On orders for n less •1uanhty, a reasonable charge for delivery will be ma1le. 
AU oi-ilers must be a1ltlre;,:sed to the manufacturer. 

CEO. L. BROWNINC, 
No. 20 MARKET STREET, Caz:n.cl.e:n., J.Sr.. J. 
Full direeiions for u~ing ,...-ill be fnrnishetl. 8en•l for pamphlets.