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

NA TIONA L DEMOCRA TIC CONVENTIO.~.
are now anxious for a change of administration, with a platform of principles
reviving no( dead issues, and lookling only to the arrest of existing evils, and
with candidates whose fidelity to the Constitution and devotion to the country cannot he questioned. We shall co-operate with you in this campaign
with a degree of enthusiasm and confidence that will bring victory to our
standard and salvation to the country. (Loud cheering.)
ItA. B. FRANKLIN,
H. W. SLOCUM,
gJ. W. DENVER,
JOtIN- A. MCCLERNAND,
WM-f. W. AVERELL,
WNI. F. S.MITU,
JAMES MCQUADE,
JOIIN LOVE,
C. E. PRATT,
JOHIN J. PECK,
At to conclusion of the reading of the address, three cheers were given
for the soldiers and sailors, and calls were made for Gen. Thomas Ewinlg, Jr.,
of Ohlio, who was introduced to the Convention, and was greeted by a round
of applause.
Speech of General Ewing.
GE,NTLFME,PN OF THE CONVENTION, -If it were appropriate for me,
it would be imnpossible, for lack of voice, to express to this Convention tht thankfulness which I and the members of the Conventionr and
of the Committee feel for the cordial and enthusiastic manner of this reception. We feel that the members of the two Conventions, however widely
separated their paths may have been in the past, will march, henceforth, in
one line. (Applause.) We earnestly wish to accomplish the purposes of the
war as we understand them - (Applause) - the truly cordial, unconditional
restoration of this Union. (Applause.) We have no sympathy for those
purposes that have been falsely and dishonestly substituted by the Republican
party for the avowed objects of the war. (Applause.) We care not for their
dogmas of negro suffrage; we abhor their measures of white disfranchisemeiit. (Applause.)'We look upon them as enemies of the Republic, when
we see them endeavoring, by means of that power, which a great, confiding
people entrusted to them, to undermine and overthrow the settled foundations
of our government. (Applause.) We cannot, we shall not, associate with
them longer. (Applause.) We earnestly wish to associate with the great
body of the Democracy, North and South (Applause); with thousands
against whom we fought during the war (Applause); with thousands who
felt perhaps coldly in the North towards the Union cause while the war went
on, with all of those who now cordially accept as the established theory of
the Constitution that the Union is unseverable, and who will stand by and
defenlid the Constitution as interpreted by the government and the Supreme
Court. (Applause.) Since our meeting here we have had the pleasure of
friendly intercourse with many of the most prominent of the Generals of the
Confedlerate army. (Applause.) Knowing them to be men of honor, comp)aring' views with them, and feeling that their views and our views as to the
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