The Democratic Party, divided by the Civil War, reunited and was determined to take back the presidency. Democrats accepted the end of slavery and focused on economic policy. The party held its July convention in New York at Tammany Hall. Nathan Bedford Forrest, leader of the Ku Klux Klan, attended its proceedings. The party delegates finally nominated Horatio Seymour (New York) the Democratic Party presidential candidate. Seymour was the war governor of New York but had been reluctant to send Union troops to the war front, favored the anti-war Copperheads, and ineptly handled the New York draft riots. To counter Seymour's political liabilities, the delegates nominated Francis P. Blair (Missouri) for vice president. Although Blair was a Union soldier who served under General William T. Sherman, Blair's campaign rhetoric was caustic and said Reconstruction governments in the South were corrupt and out of control. The Democratic Party platform advocated war bonds be redeemed with $100,000,000 in greenbacks and the rest with gold. It advocated former Confederates be allowed to hold elective offices.