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 THY
of the whole American people; a gentleman who, appointed to a Military
District of the United States, succeeding one who in that position had sub ordinated his regard for the laws and the Constitution of the country, and his
respect for the Chief Magistrate of the United States to his own ambitious
longings for wealth and power, standing there as the representative of his
Government, interposed the shield of the laws of the country between the
tyranny of hard and petty tyrants, and an oppressed and outraged people
(Applause); a man, who by nature, gifted with a broad, comprehensive and
discriminating intellect, educated in a school which taught him that the
government was instituted to afford to its citizens the great cardinal rights
of personal liberty, personal security, and the rilght to acquire and enjoy
property, stood there and interposed, between the operations of the military
government and the people who had been outraged and oppressed, the law
that should accord to them those rilghts; a gentleman who oni another field
was one of the brave men in command of troops in the late con)test, and
united within hiisrrielf the attributes of lion-hearted couragc, and great magnianimity, who fought well for the nation which placed him in command, but
held forth the hand of mercy to the enemy when brought beneath his arms;
a man who, ever foremost in the fight, held the plume aloft, which, like the
helmet of Navarre, was always the orifiamme under which his troops went on
either to honorable death or glorious victory. With these words it would
seem almost superfluous to give the name; but I will nominate General WVINrmLD SCOTT HANCOCK. (Great chleering.)
Nomination of George HZ. Pendleton, of Ohio.
Mr. EMORY of Maine. - In behalf of what now constitutes the minority, but
what I have reason to believe will constitute a majority of the Maine delegation, and in behalf of the laboring masses of Maine, who look to the action
of this Convention to relieve them from the burden of debt and taxation
under which they are now groaning, I nominate as their choice the Hon.
GEOnGE H. PENDLETON, of Ohio. (Prolonged applause.)
The Secretary called the name of Maryland.
The CHAIRMAN of the Delegation.- Maryland makes no nomination.
The Secretary called the iinamine of Massachusetts.
The CHAIRMAN of the Delegation. -The State of Massachusetts presents
no name at this time.
The Secretary called the name of Michigan.
The CHAIRMAN of the Delegation.- Michigan makes no nomination at this
time.
Thie Secretary called the name of Minnesota.
The CHAIRMAN of the Delegation. - Minnesota makes no nomination at this
time.
The Secretary called the name of Mississippi.
The CHAIRMAN of the Delegation. -Mississippi makes no nomination.
The Secretarv called the name of Missouri.
The CHAIRMAN of the Delegation. — Missouri makes no nomination.
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