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

NrATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. New Hampshire - One-half vote for Thomas A. Hendricks, one and a half for Pendleton, and three votes for W. S. Hancock. New Jersey. - Seven votes for Joel Parker. New York. - Thirty-three votes for Sanford E. Church. North Carolina.- Five and a half votes for, Hancock, two and a half for Pendleton, and one for Packer. Ohio.'Twenty-one votes for Pendleton. Oregon.- Three votes for Pendleton. Pennsylvania.- Twenty-six votes for Packer. Rhode Island.- Four votes for Doolittle. South Carolina. - Three votes for Andrew Johnson, two for Pendleton, and one for John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts. Tennessee.- Ten votes for Andrew Johnson. Texas.- Six votes for Hancock. Vermont.- Five votes for Thomas A. Hendricks. Virginia. - Ten votes for Pendleton. West Virginia. - Five votes for Pendleton. Wisconsin.- Eight votes for Doolittle. Georgia. -Nine votes for Frank P. Blair. Arkcansas. -Three votes for Pendleton, one for Andrew Johnson, and one for English. Executive Committee. During the recess the Secretary said, I have to request that the delegations that have appointed members of the Executive Committee will please pass them up to the Presidlent's table, on slips of paper, w.th the post-office address, giving their States. Mr. BRADFORD, of Delaware. - I think the resolution was that a Committee should be appointed, one from each State, to name them. The PRESIDFENT.- The delegates from each State select their own representatives. Mr. WRIGHT, of Delaware.- I offered that resolution. It was to select one from each State to form a National Executive Committee. Mr. RICHARDSON, of Illinois. - If the Convention will give me their attention for half a moment, I will say a word in regard to the Territories. Probably in four years from now most of them will be States in the Union. I am for giving them some encouragement, and I desire to make this proposition to the Committee: that they be permitted to appoint upon the National Executive Committee a member from each of the Territories of the United States. Mr. HART, of New York. - I move to lay that resolution on the table. The motion was lost. Mr. TARBILL, of Ohio.- I move to amend the resolution so as to make it include the District of Columbia, Gen. McCOOIK, of Ohio. -The District of Columbia is not a State yet, and it is not represented on this floor. SMr. D. O. FINCH, of Iowa.- I am in favor of the original proposition, for the reason that the Territoiies in four years, in all probability, wvill be States, while the District of Columbia never can be; therefore the amendment should be voted down. 1-017

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