Litchfield enquirer., 1868-07-16
The Democratic Convention.

The result Of We0neSday s ballOtlng was the slaughter of Pendleton. The East stood firm against him, New York going ov- CT to Hendricks: Pennsylvania to Han cock. After running up to within three votes of majority Pendleton had fallen back to 56 in the 18th ballot Scarcely a vote had yet been given for Chase but the New York delegation had agreed to offer his name whenever Hendricks nomination seemed impracticable. To avoid this con- clusion, the Ohio delegation, on the 22d ballot, nominated Seymour; he again de- clined; Valandigham made a speech de- cIaring that he must not be allowed to with draw, delegation after delegation changed their votes to him, and he was unanimously nominated amid great enthusiasm. Gen. Frank Blair was then nominated for Vice President and the Convention adjourned.
 Just before the session of the Conven- tion Blair wrote letter for publication which contains the following:
 ''There is but one way to restore the Gov ernment and the Constitution, and that is ulSSE tion] acts null and cold. compel he army to undo s usWpdtions at the South, disperse the cdapet-bag State G0resYae,ats ao,o the sclaite people to qeor gdnsze their o,c,l Gove7r'aents and elect Senators and Representatives."
 It is the universal opinion that these nom- nations are about the weakest possible. The presentation of Horatio Seymour on 8 Pendleton Platform, and the revolutionary position of Blair, unite all shades of Re- publicans against them. The New York 1snaes, New York Eoenimg Post and the Springfield Republican, all Conservative, or weak-kneed Republican, declare strongly for Grant; the Central Chase Club, like wise; even the English Tory papers com menting on the nomination of fSeymour on arepudiation platform, predict his defeat.
 The N. Y. Times remarks as follows on MT. Seymour ..
 He was an effective ally of the copperheads, and exerted his energies to array the State against the Republic. He sowed the seeds of sectional quar- rels, as between NewYork and the West one hand and New-England on the other, and for two years was in reality the most formidable enemy of the government not actually in arms against it.. when the cause of the Union trumphed, it was in SplIo LII IuoSC ous endeavors of Mir. Seymour.
 Of Frank Blair it says:-
 Nothing more revolutionary than his proposi- ton has appeared. It threatens the overthrow of reconstruction the undoing of all that has been done, and the re-establ1shment in power of the old disloyal whites, by sheer usurpation and force.
 The Springfield Repu6hcaa sums up the matter thus
 Though the deaaouen,ent was rapid, the plot had been skillfully arranged long before hand. The pron,1ncianeiento Of Blair was one link of the chain, and his nomination as Vice-President fitly closes the scene. Missouri Abolitionist of 1858 nominated in 1868 by Forrest, the Fort Pillow butcher and Wade Hampton, the South Carolina cavalier for the second place on the national tick ct, was a strange sight.
 That political weathercock, the New York Herald, has also taken another tune ,and denounces the ticket in the folio wing Ian guage:-
 There is nothing in Seymour nothing in his re- cord, nothing ill platform that will bring single | recruit to the Democratic party, but every thing to rally the whole floating vote of the United States with all the conservative republicans, around the | glorious banner of Grant.
 l Seymour is be hind the age, and Blair, as sol
 dier, pinned to his ticket mades mockery of the 1 combination. Grant and Colfax against such
 ticket will ep the country from the Atlantic te the Pacific because the blockheads of the Demo l :l1 ! :Lr rkkla and RtiGhanan,