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.
has our State, in this regard, enjoyed immunity, but, on the contrary, has
been duly afflicted by these additional aggravations of her situation. To depict these, however, might plausibly subject us to the imputation of partisan
hleat. It is the system at which we strike. Destroy that, and the offenders
disappear with their offences, soon to be forgotten, like other calamities
of life, in restored happiness and a resumed prosperity. The business of
our paper is not to accuse this or that man, this or that official, but to present to the members of this Convention, and through them to the people of
the North, the grave and solemn question, - whether a sovereign State of
the FEDERAL UNION shall be retained in bondage, and thousands of her
people made miserable; to remind the Northern States that once consenting
to the enslavement of any one of the Federal circle, they but prepare for the
divestiture at some future day of their own sovereign rights; to remind
the people that for them to instigate, or even permit, the degradation and
vassalage of an American citizen is to forge their own manacles for future
imposition, and to adjust their own limbs for the gyves of the oppressor.
T. W. BROWN,
J. E. BURLEY,
WM. A. QUARLES, Committee.
J. H. CALLENDER,
WM. CLARE,.
After the reading of the memorial, a delegate from Indiana stated
that his delegation were still in consultation, and not ready to return
to the hall; but that, in the mean time, he was authorized, on behalf
of the delegation, to cast the vote of that State as heretofore, - thirteen for Mr. Pendleton.
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