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

OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF TtHE
sent us here,-we were instructed to behave with the proprieties which belong
to the well-bred guest, and not to assume any of the functions of the symposiarch of the feast. We came here, Mr. President and gentlemen of the
Convention, having no favorite candidate, -going not for men but for
measures. We have been more than grateful for the declaration of principles
and of prospective measures that has been announced by the Convention, not
only with unanimity, but with unsurpassed enthusiasm. We were instructed,
and the instructions were coincident with the feelings of every honest heart
in South Carolina, to accept the nomination of that man who seemed to have
the voice of the Convention. Obeying these instructions, South Carolina,
with an invocation of God's blessing upon this party wherein is centred the
last hopes of the Republic of Washington, nominates and votes for Horatio
Seymour, of New York. (Great applause.)
A delegate from California moved that Horatio Seymour be ten dered the unanimous vote of the Convention.
VoIcEs. - " No! no! let the vote be finished."
The CHAIRMAN of the Delaware Delegation. - Delaware would change her
vote, if not too late, and casts all her votes for Horatio Seymour. (Applause
and laughter.)
Mr. SAMUrEL J. TILDEN. -Mr. Chairman A DELEGATE from New York. - See if any other State wants to change its
vote first.
Mr. TILDEN. - If there 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. TILDEN.- It is fit that on —thisoccasion New York should wait for the
voice of all her sister States. Last evening I should not have believed, did
not believe, 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 obsta cle, and thawas in the repugnance, - which I take upon myself the whole
responsibility of declaring to have been earnest, sincere, deep-felt, - on the
part of Horatio Seymour 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, should herself demand 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 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 far above every such
consideration. And I believe further, after having surveyed the ground for
a long time and meditated most carefully what we ought to do, influenced, I
am sure, by no personal partiality, by no other thing than the deliberate coInviction 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.)
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