Official proceedings of the National Democratic convention, held at New York, July 4-9, 1868.: Reported by George Wakeman, official reporter of the Convention.

NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
Mr. LAWSON, of 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.
The PRESIDENT pro tern. -It cannot be done until all the States have voted
on this ballot.
The CHAIRMAN of the Florida Delegation. - Florida wishes to cast her
three votes for Horatio Seymour. (Applause.)
The CHARMAN of the Minnesota Delegation. - Minnesota, following the
lead of Ohio, casts her entire vote for Horatio Seymour.
The CHAIRMAN of the New Hampshire Delegation. - The State of New
Hampshire changes her vote, and casts it entire for Horatio Seymour.
The CHAIRMAN of the Georgia Delegation. - The State of Georgia has
indicated her choice by casting her vote for the most accomplished soldier
of the Union army, he who, when the war was ended, yielded to the supremacy of the Constitution of his country. But, sir, we come here to abide by
the choice of the Democratic party, and now join our voice with that of the
Democracy, from one end of the country to the other, for Horatio Seymour.
(Applause.)
Mr. JoNEs, of Louisiana.- 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 fiftythousand voters unknown to our Constitution and to our laws, yet, Mr.
Chairman, I pledge the vote of the State of Louisiana to the nominee.
(Applause.)
Mr. STUART, of Michigan.- Mr. Chairman, the delegates from the State of
Michigan came 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 around in this Convention, and see here, for the first time in eight years, the assembled wisdom of
the Democracy of the county, - a country bounded only upon the Atlantic
and upon the Pacific, because on the north and on the south America acknowl-.
edges as yet no boundary whatever, - when 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 (Applause),
- Michigan cannot consent to withhold her voice in this general expression,
not only of confidence in him, but, sir, this expression of patriotic determination to rescue this country firom the grasp of the most desperate rebels
that ever seized upon the reins of the government. (Voices, " Good!
good ") It is a question of Constitution; it is 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 down in everlasting oblivion and
infamy. (A voice, "Good! ") Sir, under these circumstances, it is with infinite pleasure that Michigan casts her vote for Horatio Seymour, of New
York. (Great applause.)
Mr. JAMES B. CAMPBELL, of South Carolina. -Mr. President, I rise to
answer for that State of the Union which bears at this time most heavily the
chains and weight of Radical misrule. I did not suppose, sir, that my voice,
or that of any of my colleagues, would be heard in this assembly, except in
the discharge of the routine business. In the words of the Convention that
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