The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-07-24

Speeches of Acceptance by Governor
Seymour and General Blair.
Last Friday evening mass meeting,
or rather, two mass meetings were
held at Tammany Hall to present for
mally to the Hon. Horatio Seymour,
of New York State, and Gen. Frank
p. Blair, of Missouri, the nominations
of the National Democratic Conven-
ton to the high offices of President and
Vice President of the United States,
and to ratify said nominations by the
voice of the people. The meeting was
one of the grandest of the grand scenes
witnessed upon this continent since its
discovery by Christopher Columbus;
the reception given to the candidates
of the Democracy-or let us say rather
the people-of these United States, was
an ovation of which they and their de-
scendants may well be proud and boast
till the crack of doom. Never before
in the history of our politics was rati-
fication meeting held which was SO
truly, so Enthusiastically a ratification
meeting. The country, through all its
broad extent, had that morning, in
countless sheets, flung off from light
ming presses in numberless kilograms,
sent thrilling and quivering, as if with
joy, over the glad wires, announced its
ratification of the noble choice of its
trusted delegates in solemn council as
sembled. And now the people, not
only of the Empire City and the EN-
pire State, but of every State and Ter
ritory and city in the land, there rep
resented by some of their worthy citi-
zens, met in the place where the glori-
Gus deed had been done, the happy
choice made, to give palpable and en-
enthusiastic expression to that ratifica-
! ton.
Tammany Hall wore an aspect pre-
cisely such as it wore when the Con-
vention was deliberating within its
walls, not one of it's tasteful decora.
tions having been removed. Outside,
at the large window, to the left of the
door, large platform was erected, and
was hung with the national ensign,
while across the street were hung nu-
merOus lanterns to give at once light
and lightness to the spectacle. The
meeting was announced for s o'clock,
but long before that hour the great
Hall was filled to its utmost capacity,
and a scene was presented on the floor
and in the galleries like that which has
so often been described during the
past few days. On the outside tho
people who could not get in gathered
in the street in front of the stand, and
before the hour of meeting a dense
thrOng extended from one side of the
street to the other, and from the Third
avenue far up to the Fourth avenue.
At about eight o'clock fireworks, sup
piled by j. G. & J. Edge, and managed
by A. G. Greene, began to illuminate
the heavens and the vast assemblage
below them. If the object Of these
was TO draw a crowd together it was a
ridiculously unnecessary eXpedient; if
the object was to give the throng some
thing to employ their eyes and keep
them from impatience while standing
waiting for the speeches, it was wise
one. Such an assemblage was never
before witnessed here at a public meet
ing. The very lamp-postS and the
posts of the great arch were occupied
by men and boys, and throughout the
evening, from 6 to II, street-cars were
in the midst Of the jamble unable to
move one way or the other.
Some time after eight o'clock Gov
ernor Seymour and General Blair ap-
peared in one of the reception rooms of
the Tammany building, which they
had reached quietly by the back en-
trance. After few minutes consulta-
ton the committee of one from each
State and Territory, appointed by the
Convention to make the formal tender
of the nominations, proceeded to the
platform of the hall, escOrting the two
candidates. There the two latter re-
mained unperceived in the recess at
the back of the platform, while the
committee took seats upon it, together
with Messrs. August Belmont, Angus
tus Shell, Edw. Croswin, Senator MUIR
ply, and other distinguished gentle
men.
MIR. August Belmont came forward
and said:
GENTLEMEN Il have to propose to
you as President of this meeting Hon.
Samuel J. Tilden, of New York.
CHEERS.
Mr. Tilden, on coming forward, said:
Speech Of Hon. S. j. ITlden.
FELLOw-CITIzENs [ congratulate
you on this spontaneous assemblage of
the Democracy of our State. ZAP
plause.) I did not myself know of this
meeting until a few hours ago. There
does not seem to be any organization
for the purpose of carrying it on and,
therefore, l have been invited to accept
the duty of presiding on this occasion.
AS / came through the hall | saw vast
heap of people, many times more than
are here assembled. (Applause.) L
feel how strangely this meeting III here
and the meeting outside indicate the
| simultaneous uDriSinor of the masses of