The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-07-10
The geafurd Gazette.
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVEN-
TIONl
The true friends of the Union i'm Council!
Union and victory!
Harmony and Peace!
Hon. HOrafiO Seymour. of New York,
for President!
Gen. If. II. Blair, of Missouri, for Vice
President
The true friends of the Union in Council,
ION. HOratiO Seymour. of New York,
for President!
FIRST DAYS PROCEEDINGS.
NEW YORK, July 4, 186

| DOrnOOu OF 1amndlly Hall. IneTe
was very little confusion manifested
during the filling. The seats set apart
for ladies were all filled. The hall was
most beautifully decorated with flags,
banners, flowers and evergreens, inter
laced into patriotic emblems, indicative
of the great event to be initiated with
in its spacious walls. On the outside
the street was alive with the music of
bands, the marching Of.processions, and
the active eXertions Of the police who
found it impossible to keep the streets
clear, with their greatest eXertions.
At times it was physical impOssibili-
ty tOmake headWay through thedense
masses that surrounded the building.
The great Convention assembled I'M
der most favorable auspices. Its ses-
sions were inaugurated amid the BOOM
ingS of cannon, the huzZaS Of the null
titude, and every indication of popular
favor and encouragement. Represent
ing as they do widely separated sec
tions, whose interests are not identical.
the delegates evince a most earnest
spirit Of unanimity and a determine
ton 50 to discharge the responsible du-
ties devolving upon them as will best
cOnduce to the ultimate triumph of
their great and enduring organization.
So prominent is this feeling in all the
discussions of the members of the Con-
vention that a disinterested spectator
could not fail to notice it.
The hall and galleries are densely,
crowded and there is avast mob outside
vainly striving to gain admittance.
The Convention was called to order
at 1920 by August Belmont, Chairman
ofthe National Democratic Committee,
who said:
Speech Of AuguSt Belmont.
Gentlemen of the Convention 1T
is my privilege to day to welcome you
here in this hall, constructed with SO
much artistic taste, and rendered to
you by the time-honored Society of
Tammany. | welcome you to this
magnificent temple, erected to the
Goddess of Liberty by her staunchest
pers. l welcome you to this good
City of New York, the bulWark of
Democracy, which has rolled back the
surging waves Of Radicalism through
the storms of the last eight years, and
L welco me you, gentlemen, to our
Empire State, which last fall redeem
ed herself from Republican misrule by
a majority of nearly $4,000 votes, and
which claims the right to lead the
vanguard of victory in the great bat
tie to be fought next November for the
preservation of our institutions, our
laws, and our liberties.
1t is most auspicious omen that we
meet under such circumstances, and
are surrounded by such associations,
and | share your own confident hope
of the overwhelming success of the
ticket and the platform, which will be
the result of your deliberations. For
it is to the American people that our
appeal lies. Their final judgment will
be just. The American people will no
longer remain deaf to the teachings of
of the past. They will remember that
it was under successive Democratic adj
miniStrations, based upon onr national
principles, of constitutional liberty,
that our country rose to a prosperity
and greatness unsurpassed in the
annals of history; they will re-
member the days when North and
South marched shoulder to shoul-
der together in the conquest of
Mexico, which gave us our golden EN-
pire on the Pacific; our California and
our Oregon, now the strongholds of a
triumphant Democracy; they will re-
member the days when peace and
plenty reigneth over the whole Union,
when we had no national debt to crush
the energies of the people, when the
Federal taX-gatherer was unknown
throughout the vast extent of the land,
and when the credit of the United
States stood as high in the money
marts of the world as that of any other
government; and they will remember
with wise sorrow, that with the down
fall of the Democratic party in 1860
came that fearful civil war which has
brought mourning and desolation into
every household has cost the loss of
million Of American citizens, and
has left us a national debt the burden
of which drains the resources, Grip
pies the industry, and impOverishes
the labor of the country. They will re-
member that, after the fratricidal strife
was over, when the bravery of our ar
my and navy, and the sacrifices Of the
people had restored the Union and
vindicated the supremacy of the law;
when the victor and the Vanquished
were equally readytO bury the past and
to hold out the hand of the brother
hood and goodwill across the graves
of their fallen comrades, it was again
the defeat of the Democratic candidates
in 1864 which prevented this consum-
nation so devoutly wished for by all.
Instead of restoring the Southern
States to their constitutional rights, i'll
stead of trying to wipe out the mlser-