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IL W. JO S, Editors.
S. JEVIINGS,
"Q r e Cicau?try, One Constitution, One
Destiny." '
‘Is I IIIIO4I4SSII I)se
WEIINEBIIY, SEPT. 7, 1864.
role FRU SIDE
OEN. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN,
OF NEW JERSEY
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
GEORGE' H. PENPL..ETON,
OF OHIO
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
lin
ASSEMBLY,
THOMAS ROSE ?
07 PERRY TP.
,arse,
HEATH JOHNS,
OF WASHINGTON.
COMMISSIONER,
€IIIOIIIAS SCOTT,
OF WHITELY.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
JOSEPH O. RITCHIE,
PIE!LRINi.
POOR HOUSE DllOlOl - •`3
RINEUALIA,T,
OF FRANKLIN.
AUDITOR,
01.. J. MARTIN,
OF IV LT NE.
4 6 While the army is fighting, you as eft
/Sens see that the war is prosecuted for
the preservation of the Union and the
Conititatien, auk of your nationality aid
pour rights as citizens,”
GEO. IL IiecLELLAN.
Constitution and the Union
I place them together. If they stand, they
must stand together; if they fall, they
must fall together.".—Daniel Webster.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
ELECTORS AT LARGE.
Robert F. Johnson. of Cambria,
Richard Vans, of Philadelphia.
DISTRICT ELECTORS.
Ist Wm. Loughlin, 13th Paul Leidy,
2d E. R. Helinbold, 14th Rolit Sweinford,
Sd Edward P. Dunn, 15th John Ahl,
4th T. M'Collough, 16th Henry G. Smith,
Etb Edward T. Hess, dltli Thaddeus Batiks,
Bth Phil. S. Gerhard, 18th H. Montgomery,
7th Geo. P. Leiper, 19th Jno. M. Irwin,
Bth Michael Seltzer, 20th J. M. ThoMpson,
9th Patrieh M.'A.voy, 21st Erastus Brown,
10th T. R. Walker, 22d Jas. P. Barr, •
11th 0. S. Dimmick, 23d Win. J. 400ntz,
12th A. B.puquing ! 24th Mqntgorpery.
- MSS _MEETING!
OF THE
DEMOCRACY OF GREENE CO'TY,
TO RATIFY THE NOMINATION OF
Gen. Geo. B. McClellan,
FOR PRE6IDENT,
HON. GEORGE H. PENDLETON,
FOR VICE PRESIDENT!
The Democracy of Greene County
will meet in Waynesburg, on
TUESDAY, SEPTENBER 20TH, '64,
co ratify the nominations of Gen. GEO.
B. MCCLELLAN and Hon. Vim. ll. PEN
IH.F.TON. The harmony and unanimity
of •-the Chime) Convention, eminently
demands the hearty endorsement of the
Democracy everywhere, and of all lovers
of our Co natitutiOn—our Union, and
of such conciliatory measures, as alone
Are calculated to restore peace to our dis
tracted country, and obedience to the
Constitution and the laws throughout
every State of the Union. And the pub-
lic service, the wisdom, the patriotism
and Statesmanship of the nominees; to
less demands the hearty endorsement of
every patriot, and every lover of peace,of
law and order, and of every uncondition-
Id Union man, throughout
therefore, cordially invite, an
duty to call upon all such, to
the ratification, and give yoi
your influence to the men
vhich alone can and will
Constitution and the Union.
A. A. FURMAN, Cl
Congressional
1~t'~'~~';IN'
_ .
The Democratic Conferees of Law
rence, Beaver, Washington and Greene
counties will meet at the St. Charles Ho
tel in Pittsburgh, on THURSDAY, the
15TH DAY OF SEPT., 1864, at 2
o'clock, P. M., for the purpose of nomi
nating a candidate for Congress for the
24th Congretisional District.
By agreement of all the parties.
A..A. PURMAN, -
.
Clert of the Com. for Greek Co.
Chicago responds to the will
of the People !
GEN. McCLELLAN NOMINATED !
HIS NOMINATION MADE UNANIMOUS !
LINCOLN DOOMED!
Pendleton Nominated for the
We are at length enabled to lay before our
readers a detailed account of the proceedings
of the Great Convention of the Democracy
which assembled at Chicago on the 29th ult.
We feel unqualified pleasure in being able to
congratulate them upon the entire unanimi
ty of that Convention. They have respond
ed to the will and wishes of the naaAsaq of
the Democratic party everywhere in the
nomination of their idol, GEO. B. McCLEL
LAN Me was our individual choice, as he
was of the community by which we are sur
rounded. Upon the first ballot McClellan
received all the votes of the Convention ex
cept moo twenty, and his nomination was
afterwards • made unanimous, and that too
upon the motion .of Mr. Vallaudigham, of
whom it was predicted that he and his pecu
liar 4:ienda would BOLT unless a representative
of his paftieqat yiews was nomimited.—
The hopes of our political opponents that
these would be irrecomilable dissensions in
thifonvention, have thus "vanished into
tie and the election of the candidates of
he glorious old Democracy thus rendered al
most an acmunplished fact.
proceedings:
Speech of Gov. Seymour.
On Miring the chair, Gov. Seymour spoke
as follows;
Got/.even of the Convention :.---I can
not forecast the resolutions and action
of this convention, but I can say that
every member of it loves the Union,
desires peace, and will uphold consti
tutional freedom. While the resolu
tions and action of this convention are
of the utmost importance, there are
reasons why the Democratic party
should be restored to power, and they
are great reasons. The Democratic
party will restore the Union, because
it longs for its restoraton, it will bring'
peace because it loves peace; it will j
bring back liberty to our land, because '
it loves liberty; it will put down des
potism
because it hates the ignoble
tyranny which now degrades the Amer- !
can people. Four years ago a conven
tion met in this city, when our coun
try was peaceful, prosperous and united.
Its delegates did not mean to destroy
our government, to overwhelm us with
debt, or to drench our land with blood,
but they were animated by intolerance
and fanaticism, and blinded by an ig
norance of the spirit of our institutions,
the character of our people, and the
condition of our land. They thought
they might safely indulge their pas
sious and they concluded to do
They would not heed the warnings of
our fathers, and they did not consider
that medling begets strife, Their pas
slops have wrought one their natural
results, They were impelled to spurn '
all measures of compromise. Step by
step they have marched on to results,
which, at the onset, they would have
shrunk with horror from ; and even
now, when war has desolated our land,
has laid its heavy burden upon labor, '
and when bankruptcy and ruin over
hang us, they will not have the Union
restored except upon conditions un
known to our Constitution. They will
not let the shedding of blood cease even
for a little time, to see if Chris
tian charity or the wisdom of
statesmanship may not work out a
method to save our country. Nay,
more than this, they will not listen to a
proposal for peace which does not of
fer that which this government has no
right to ask. This administration can
not now have this Union if it would.—
It has, by its proclamations, by vindic
tive legislation, and by displays of hate
and passion, placed obstacles in its own
pathway which it cannot overcome.—
It has hampered its own freedom of fic
tion by unconstitutionalities. f t can
not be said that the failure of its poliey
is due to the want of conrage and (le
yotion on the part of our armies. Nev
er in the history of the world have sol
diers given up their lives more freely
than have those of the armies which
have battled for the flag of cur Union
in the Southern States. The world
' will hold that they have done all that
arms can do, and had wise statesman
ship secured the fiuits of their victories,
to-day there would have hepil epee in
our land, But while our soldiers have
desperately struggled to carry our ban
ners south to the Gulf of Mexico, even
now the government declares, in the
edict of a general, that rebellious dis
, content has worked northward to the
shores of the great lakes. The guarau
i teed rights of the people to bear arms
has been trampled under foot up to
the very borders of Canada, so that
American servitude is put in bold con
trast with British liberty. This admin
istration thus declares to the world that
it has no faith in the people of the
States whose votes placed it in power.
It also admits by such an edict that
these people have no faith in this ad
ministration. While those in power,
without remorse, sacrifice the blood and
treasures of our people, they will not
give up their own passions for the
public good. This Union is not .held
asunder by military ambition. If our
politioal troubles could be referred to
the peaceibl arbitrament of the contend
ing armies in the field, our ljnion would
be restored, the rights of the States
! would be guaranteed, the sacredness of
homes and persons he again respected,
4 •
and our insulted would again
administer the laws of the land: Let
not the ruin of our country be charged
to our soldiers. It is not due to their
teachings or fanaticism. In the con,
stunt official intercourse with them I
have never heard uttered one senti
meot of hatred towards the people •of
the *nth. Beyond ail other men, they
value the 'blessings of pore . and the
virtues of mercy, of gentleness and of
charity, while those. who stay at home
iser The appointment of a successor to demand that no mercy, Charity or for-
Judge Lamson, will devolve upon Qov. Bivenes shall be shown. The bigotry of
tin, whOse apPoinuse will hold the office till fanaticism and the intrigues of place
the General Election in 1865. When a va- seen have made the bloody of the
eancy occurs in the kakis? , less than three .
of thn . past three years.. h
months before the succeeding election, the •
appointment devolves,. by in% upon the4uPita Boller upon *WU our Savtou
(*maw. ,thentowed hie only conpfiendation when
GEN. WOLELLIN NOMINATED.
stir. The nomination of licCiliti.aN and
PENDLETON is received with delight every
where, over the entire country. As soon as
the Telegraph flashed the cheering news over
the wires, meetings of the people were spon- -
taaeonsly ls,sembled, bonfires lit up, and
congratulatory guns discharged. The news
papers are filled with accounts of the rejoic
ing of the people at the happy termination of
the labors of the Convention, and the bril
liant prospect of getting rid of an adminis
tration which knows no Constitutional re
straints. and pays no regard to the protection
of the moat cherished rights of the people.
That the Republican—Abolition party is
greatly alarmed at the imminent prospect of
the loss of political power, fat offices, and
Shoddy contracts, is very apparent from their
spiteful, but hurtless attacks upon the char
adter of the Democratic Democratic candi
date, Gen. McClelland. Their first and prin
cipal charge is, that he prevented Maryland
from going over to Dixie, by the arrest of
the members of the Legislature, at a time
when it was universally believed they were
were on the eve of passing an ordinance of
secession. This was a military arrest, they
say, and the Democrats, ungrateful dogs!
complain of military arrests, on the part of
the Administration. Well it may be you
have slightly got us there. But the country
may, perhaps, tolerate a judicious application
cif military vigor where the object affectod is
the salvation of a whole State from Rebel
dun, and along with it, perhaps the capital
of the whole country, from the sanle dpstina,-
eon. But our political opponents will allow
ps to suggest that this is quite a different af
fair from the practice which has prevailed
for the last two or three years, of arresting
and plumping into dungeons, every Demo
crat, whom the Administration, or any of its
malignant subordinates, may have chosen to
suspect of the indefinite crime of "disloyal
ty." The case in Maryland took place in
the Spring of 1861, when the safety of the
very capitol of the nation was involved, and
treason was really skulking in every direc
tion, and under circumstances when military
intervention was really necessary. But that
we submit, is n very different affair, from
military arrests made in places where no dan
ger existed, which military lines did not cov
er, and in which the Courts were open, and
the civil laws had free and uniuterroptpd op
eration.
According to the Pittsburgh "Coin narcia.l'i
it is now ascertained that the law as it passed
Conress and as it is printed, requires sixty,
instead °I NV, days notice from the Presi
dent befor• it can be enforced. By the law,
as the President seems to have understood
it, at the time he promulgated his Proclama
tion, this is the day tre begin the Praft, but
according to the law as it was passed, the
17th inst., is the earliest day qn wbich it
could begin to be enforced, There can hard
ly be a doubt that its enforcement will not be
commenced to-day,
Indeed Secretary Stanton by a late order
which will he found in this days isspe, suh
stantially reduces the number to be drafted
from five hundred thousand to three hundred
thousand. lie says one hundred thousand
men is all gen. Grant requires for the reduc
tion of Richmond, and the remaining two
btindred thousand will be sufficient to answer
411 the other exigencies of the war. It would
have been well that this discovery had been
nuaepooner, in order that the public spore-
Lemift) had been sooner relieved. We have no
public mind upon the
ily large draft, has
of the administra-
gaper accounts, from
thousand 'Volunteers
alder this draft, and,
inistration will find
no necessity for the
at all.
Ts the following quo-
It was passed and
or any part thereof,
of any town, or township, ward of a city,
precinct or election district of any comity not
so subdivided, shall not be filled within the
=Of sixty days after such call, then the
dent &hall immediately order a draft for
one year to fill such quota, or any part there
of which play be yet unfilled.".
Vice Presidency:
Alarmed !
The Draft.
DEMOCRATIC NATMNAL
CONVENTION :
GOV. SEYMOUR, OF NEW YORK,
President of the Convention !
The Platform!
The Resolutions.
THE NOMINATIONS!
FOR PRESIDENT,
GEN. GEORGE B. M'CLELLAN,
OF NEW JEESEY
VICE PRESIDENT,
GEORGE. H. PENDLETON,
OF onx•
CHICAGO ALL AGLOW
BONFIRES BLAZING FROM ,A
THOUSAND ! !
From the copious reports of the Great
Convention of chicago, we can
give but a few extracts of its h,annonions
he hang upon the cross, and Phari
sees marked his sufferings. It was a
soldier alone who discerned his divinity
when he heard him pour fortis a prayer
for mercy and forgiveness for the an
thors of his sufferings- This adminis
tration cannot save, this Union. We
can. Mr. Lincoln views litany things'
above the Union. We put the Union
first of all. lie thinks a proclamation
worth more than peace. We think the
blood 'of our people more precious than I
the edicts of the president. There are I
no hindrances in our pathway to Union
,and to peace. We demand no condi
tions for the restoration of the Union.
We are shackled with no hates, no
prejudices, no passions. We wish for I
fraternal relationship with the people
of the South. We demand for them
what we demand for ourselves—the
full recognition of the rights of the
States. We mean that. any State on
our Nation's banner shall shine with !
one and the same luster. In the com
ing election, men must decide with
whith of the two parties into which
our people are divided they will act.—
If they wish for Union they will act 1
with that party which will hold the I
Union together.
They will act with that: pariy which
does now, and always did, love and
reverence the Union. If they wish for
peace, they will act with those who
sought to avert this war, or who now
seek to restore good will and harmony
among all sections of our country. If
they care for their rights, and for the
sacredness of their homes, they will act
with those who have stood up to resist
arbitary arrests, despotic legislation, and
the overthrow of the judiciary. If upon
the other hand they are willing to con
tinue the present policy of the govern- .
punt and condition of affairs, let them
act with that organization which made
the present condition ot our country.—
There are many good men who will be
led to do this by their passions and
prejudices, and our land swarms with
place-men who will hold upon power
with a deadly grasp. But as for us, we
are resolved that the party which has
made the history of the country since
its advent to power, seem like some un
natural and terrible dream, shall be
overthrown. Four years ago, it had
its birth upon this spot. Let as see by
our action it shall die here where it was
born. We desireUniou and Peace.
The administration deny us Union and
peace, for they demand conditions, and
exact a price, which they know will
prolong the war; and war unduly pro
longed becomes disunion Wise states
mauship can now bring this war to a
close upon the terms solemnly set forth
by the government at the outset of the
contest. In the political contest in
which we are engaged we do not seek
partisan advantages. Wo are battling
for the rights ot those who belong to
all political organizatiens. We mean I
that their rights of speech shall be un
impeached, although that right may be
used to denounce us. We intend that
the right of conscience shall be protect-
although mistaken views of duty
may turn the temples of religion into
theaters for partizan denunciaticns.—
We mean that home rights and the sa
credness of the fire-side shall be respect
ed by those in authority, no matter
what political views may be held by
those who sit beneath their roof trees.
When the Democratic party shall have
gained !power, we shall not be less but
more tenacious upon these subjects.—
We have fore-borne m uch because
those whe are now charged with the
conduct of public affairs, know but lit - -
about the principles of our government
We were unwilling to present an ap
pearance of fitetious opposition, but
when we shall have gained poorer that
official Who shall violate (tie principle
of law, one siegle rht.dit 01' the huniblust
man in our land, be pm:islied icy
the full vigors of the law. It matters
not whether he sits in the presidential
(hair or holds an humbler offic'e under
pur government.
'We have had upon this floor a tough,
ing and significant proof of the folly of
this adminstration, who have driven
; from their support those upon whom
they chiefly leaned at the oetset, of the
rebellion. Thee their hopes, even - Jim
their own personal safety were upon the
noble men in the border States, who,
under circumstances the most trying,
severed family relationship and ancient
associations to uphold the flag of our
country. Many of these men are now
members of this convention. They
bear impressed upon their countenances
and manifest in their presenoe the high
and generous purpose which animates
them ; —and yet it is true—and great
God that it should be true—they are
stung with the sense of injustice and
ingratitude of low and unworthy men,
who have insulted and ruined them
and their families, and trampled on their
rights by vindictive legislation and
through the agency of miserable and
disonored subordinates.
Gentlemen, I do trust that our pro
ceedings here will be marked by har
mony. Ido earnestly believe that we
shall be animated by the greatness of
this occasion. 4u all probability the fh
ture destiny of our country hangs upon
our action. Let this consideration in
spjre us with a spirit of harmony.
' God of our Fathers bless us now, lift
us up above all persaual considerations,
fill us with a just idea of the great re :
spousibilities Which rest upon us, and
give again to our land its UNION a its
FEACE, and its IJ . IIIERTy.
Loud and enthusiastic cheers greeted
Gov. SEYMOUR ! as he concleded his
speech.
Sir The National Democratic Con
vention, yesterday, adopted the follow
ing
. platform as the exponent of the
PrinciPlete of the great party it represents,
THE PLATFORM.
Resolved, That in the future, as in the
past, we will' adlore with unswerving
fidelity to the anion under the Consti
tution as the only solid foundation of our
strength, aeourity, and happiness as a
people, and as a *awe work of govern
ment equally conducive to the welfare
and prosperity of all the States, both
Northern and Souther*.
I Remkat, That this convention does
explicitly declare, as the sense of the
American people, that after four years
of failure to restore the Union by the
experiment of war during which, under
the pretense of a military necessity or
war power higher than the Constitution,
the Constitution itself has been disre
garded in every part, and public liberty
and private right alike trodden down,
and the material prosperity of the coma
try essentially impaired, justice, human
! ity, liberty, and the public welfare de
! mand that immediate efforts be made
for a cesiation of hostilitie s with a view
to an ultimate convention of all the
States, or other peaceable means, to the
lend that, at the earliest practicable mo
ment, peace may be restored on the
basis of the Federal Union of the States,
Resolved, That the direct interference
of the military authority of the United
States in the recent elections held in
Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and
Delaware, was a shameful violation of
the Constitution; and a repetition of
such acts in the approaching election
will be held as revolutionary, and re
sisted with all the means and power
under our control.
Resolved, That the aim and object of
the Democratic party is to preserve the
federal Union and the rights of the
States unimpaired, and they hereby de
clare that they consider the administra
;
tine usurpation of extraordinary and
dangerous powers not granted by the
Constitution, the subversion of the
civil by military law in States not in in
surrection, the arbitrary military arrest,
imprisonment, trial, and sentence of
American citizens in States, where civil
law exists in full force, the suppression
of freedom of speech, and of the press,
the denial of the right of asylum,
the
open and avowed disregard of State
rights, the employment of unusual test
oaths, and the interference with, and
denial of the right of the people to bear
arms, as calculated to prevent a restor
ation of the Union and the perpetuation
! of a government deriving its just pow
ers from the consent of the governed.
Resolved, That the shameful disre
gard of the administration to its duty in
respect to our fellow-citizens who now
and long have been prisoners of war in
a suffering condition, deserves the se
verest reprobation on the score alike of
public and common humanity.
Resolved, That the sympathy of the
Democratic party heartily and earnest
ly extended to the soldiery of our army
who are, and have been, in the field,
under the flag of our country, and in
the event of our attaining power, they
will receive all the care, protection, re
' gard and kindness, that the brave sol
diers of the republic have so nobly
' earned,
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVEN
TION.
CH icAao, August 31.
The National Democratic Convention re
assembled at 10 o'clock this morning. The
Wigwam is again densely packed and the
crowd outside as greater than ever. Imme
diately atter the Convention had been called
to order a prayer was offered up by the Rev.
Dr. Halsey of Chicago.
Mr. Wickliffe than rose and said that the
delegates from the West were of the opinion
that circumstances may occur between Low
and the fourth of March next for the Democ,
racy of the country to meet in Convention
again. lie therefore moved the following
resolution, which was unanimously adopted
Reso/red,At the, Convention shall not be
dissolved by the adjournment at the close of
its business, but shall remain organized, sub
ject to be called at any time and place that
the Executive National, Qommittee shall des-
The following communication was then re
ceived truin the National Democratic °Ann
mittee, and was presented by Mr. Lawrence,
ut lthode Island;
At a meeting of the National Democratic
Committee held at the Sherman Mouse, at
the city of Chicago, on the 31st day of Aug.,
1864, the fallowing resolution was adopted :
Whereas, A. respectful devotion to the
memory of Stephen A Douglas, the great
Statesman of thi West, was the crowning
motive which induced the Committee to
concur in callituf, the Convention in the city
of Chicago; now, therefore, it is the deliber
ate conviction of this • committee, that had
his life been spared his gigantic grhsp of
mind taken in connection . with his declara,-
tioothat "•war is Oisnnion"—a declaration
which time has proved the wisdom of—world
long since have restored the power of the
federal compact, and avoided that terrible
loss of life for which nothing can com
pensate, and that bitterness of feeling, so
much to tie deplored, which is the great bar
rier to the restoration of peace and Union.
Thos. B. FLJKENCE, Chairman.
William Flinn, t Secretaries.
F. A. Askew, ) •
The President then stated the question be
tore the Convention to be on ordering the
previous question, (nominating a candidate
presidency) and it was ordered without dis
sent. The vote was then taken by States,
the chairman of each delegation announcing
the vote when the States were called.
Connecticut and Ohio having been passed,
tor the moment the vote stood, as follows ;
For McClellan, 1 ti. 2
Scattering, 64
The different delegations now began to
change their vc s tes, and the final result was
announco as follows :
Geo. B. Thos. H.
States. McClellan. Seymour.
Maine, 7
New Hampshire, 5 O.
Vermont, cx 9,
Massachnsetts, 12 Q
RLode Island, 4 0
Connecticut, 1 0
New York, 33 0
New Jersey, 7 0
Pennsylvania ; 25 0
Delaware, 0. a
Maryland, 9 7
Kentucky, 11 . 6
Ohio, lii 6
Indiana, ai 34
Illinois, 16 0
Michigan, 8 0
Missouri, . 7 4.
Minneasota, 4 0
Wiscoasin, 8 0
lowa, 8 0
California, 5 0
Ortwon, 4 0
Kansas, 4_ 0
Total,
20271
/n announcing the vote of New York, San
ford E, March said that New York regret
% d . to pass by her thvorite sow bat she dim*
now as she has ever stood, ready to sacrifice
her dearest personal preferences for the pib
lic good, holding it her duty above all oth
ers to do all in her power to rescue the coun
try from the tyranny that oppresses it.—
Having full confidence in the democracy,
ability, and patriotism of General McClellan,
New York gives him her entire electoral
vote.
EIPREOR OF GOVERNOR SEYMOUR.
Several delegations having cast their votes
for Horatio Seymour, when the call of the
States had been gone. through with, Gov S.
remarked that some gentlemen had done him
the honor to name him for the nomination.
It would be affectation to say that their ex
pressions did not give him pleasure, but he
owed it to himself to say that many months
ago he advised his friends in Yew York that
for various reasons, private and public, he
could not be a candidate for the Chicago
nomination. Having made thst announce
ment he would lack the honor of a man ; he
would do great injustice to those friends to
permit his name to be used now. As a mem
ber of the New York delegation he personal
ly thought it advisable to support an eminent
jurist of that State fur the nomination, but
be was not actuated iu this by any doubt of
the ability or patriotism of the distinguished
gentleman who has been placed in nomina-
He knew that Gen. McClellan did not seek
the nomination. He knew that able officer
had declared that it would be more agreeable
to hill to resume his position in the army,
but he will not honor any the less the high
position assigned him by the great majority
of the country, because lie has not sought it.
He desired to add a few words in reference
to Maryland and her honored delegate here.
Yesterday he did an act of injustice to a dis
tinguished member of that delegation (Mr.
Harris,) because he (Seymour) did not un
derstand the purport of his remarks, and he
now desired to say that lie was fully satisfied
that that high-toned gentleman was incapable
of taking a position in this convention partici
pating in its deliberations, and refusing to
abide by its decisions. We are now appeal
ing to the American people to unite and save
our country. Let us not look back. It is
with the present that we have to deal. Let
bygones he bygones. lie could say for our
gallant nominee that no man's heart will
grieve more than his will for any wrong done
Maryland. As one who did not support him
in my delegation, and one who knows the
man well, he felt bound to do him this justice.
He (Governor Seymour) would pledge his
life that when General McClellan is placed
in the Presidential chair he will devote all
his energies to the best interests of his coun
try and to securing, never again to be invad
ed, all the rights and privileges of the people
I under the lasts and the Constitution.
RESULT OF TIIE VOTE ANNOUNCED
The president then announced the vote,
which was received with deafening cheers,
the delegates and the vast audience rising,
the band•playing, and the cheering lasting
for several minutes.
Immediately after the nomination, a ban
ner on which is painted a portrait of McClel
lan, and bearing as a motto : "If I cannot
have command of my own men, let me share
their fate on Elie field of battle," a-as run up
behind the Pfesident's platform, and was wel
comed by the wild enthusiastic cheers of the
multitude.
A communication was received from the
chairman of the German Peoples' Associa
tion of New York claiming to represent two
hundred thousand citizens, and accompanied
by resolutions pledging the members of the
association to the support of the Chicago
nominees. The ccmmunication was filed.
Mr. Vallawligham said that, from the first
moment he had been animated by but ono
sentiment in this conyeution—peace to the
end, that there might be peace in the land.
ile then moved that the nomination of Gen
eral Qeorge B. McClellan he the unanimous
sense of the convention.
gr. McKeon, of New ynrk, seconded the
motion and remarked that we were in the
midst of a bloody revolution ; that if the
present administration should be continued,
no man of note here would be safe in his lib
erty or life. He exhorted all to join, with
one heart and as one man, in the etfurt to
overtlowv it,
ciovernor I}owell also hriefly addressed the
Convention, pledging his most earnest efforts
tor the success of the ticket, and expressing
the firm couviction that the ticket would
come out of the contest triumphant, with the
liberties of the people restored and the pros
perity and happiness of the country secured.
Judge Allen, of Ohio, Mr. Bogg, of Mis
souri and James S. Thayer, of New York, fol
lowed in brief speeches, reviewing the his
tory of the country under Democratic rule in
comparison with the acts of the present ad
ministration ; promising the return of last
ing peace and national happiness with the
success of [McClellan.
The question was then taken on making
the nomination unanimous, and it was de
clared carried. The shout that responded
was deafening.
Mr. WickMT offered a resolution to the ef
fect that Kentucky expects McClellan, when
elected in Lincoln's seat, to open Lincoln's
prison doors, and set the captives free. Car
ried unanimously.
Mr. Wickliff said that many of the best and
most loyal citizens of Kentucky, among the
twenty or thirty ladies, were now imprisoned
in Louisville in damp and dirty cells, wi,th on
ly straw to lay upon, and the coarsest fare
to eat, and the newspapers of Louisville were
forbidden to make the slightest allusion to
this terrible state of affairs. He sow pro
claimed it at the risk of risk of his liberty,
perhaps of his life.
Mr. S. S. Cox moved that the Convention
proceed to, the no,ininaticin of a candidate
for Vice President without debate or other
business. Carried.
TUE ELECTION OF VICE-PRESIDENT
Judge Allen nominated George H. Pendle
ton, of Ohio. -
Mr. McDowell nominated D. W. Voor
hees, of Indiana.
Mr. Hughes nominated Geo. W. Cass, of
Pennsylvania.
Mr. Dickey, of Vermont, nominated
James Guthrie, of Kentucky.
Mr. Henry nominated Augustus Dodge,.et
lowa._ .
4:lNra.
Mr. Wilcox nominated James D. Cato, of
Illinois
Gov. Hunt, of New York, seconded the
nomination of James Gutkrio.
Mr. Saulsbury nominated Gov. Powell, of
IKentucky.
The Missouri delegation nominated' John
S. Phelps, of Misson
The New Jersey ation eecoiilied the
notnieetto: n (OW. Teton. '
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The first vote for Vice President issubi
ed as follows :
James Guthrie 65k
Gee. 11. Pendleton 544
Daniel W. Voorhees 13
Geo. W. Cass 26
Augustus Dodge 9
J. D. Caton
Gov. Powell
John S. Phelps
Blank
On Mt second ballot, when New York
was called, Judge Parker said that, having
cast her thirty-three votes for Jas. Guthrie,
Against his wishes, she now gave them cheer
fully to Geo. 11. Pendleton, of Ohio.
The other candidates were then withdrawn
and
GEORGE IT. PENDLETON, OF OHIO,
received the unanimous vote of the conven
tion as their candidate for Vice President.
SPEECH OF MR. PENDLETON
Mr. Pendleton being loudly called for, he
said that he had no language in which to ex
press his thanks for this evidence of kindness.
and confidence. lle could only promise to.
devote himself in the future as in the past,
with entire devotion to the great principles.
which lie at the foundation of our govern
ment ; the rights of the States and the liber
ties of the people. In the future, as in the
past, kelp* the great prin
ciples strong in their
cause, with the hearts of millions of freemen
with them, they would again build up the
shattered fragments of the Union and hand
it down to the next generation as it was re
ceived from the last.
MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS
On motion, a committee of one froth each
State was appointed to inform the candi
dates of their nomination, and request
,their
acceptance thereof.
On motion it w•as resolved that one per
son from each State,.selected by the dele
gates thereof, be appointed to form the Na
tional Executive Committee.
On mot ion, it was resolved that one
hundred th.onalnd copies ot the proceedings.
ot the convention be printed.
Mr. Tilden moved that ilia same Patio *of
representation which prevailed in this con
vention be the ratio of the next convention.
Adopted.
GRANO RATIFICATION MEETING TO BS lIELII
SEPTEMBER 17
On motion, it was resolved that the Dem
ocracy of the country be requested to meet
at the different cities, and hold mass ratifi
cation meetings on the rith of September,
the anniversary of the adoption of the Fed
eral Constitution.
A vote of thanks to the officers of the con
vention was then adopted.
AI JO CitliNf ENT
With nine cheers for the ticket; the con
vention aillourned, subject to the call of the
National Convention.
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200,000 to be Deducted in Credits
from the 500,000 Call.--General
Grant Asks for 100,000 Men to
Capture Richmond.
It is ascertained with reasonable cer
tainty that the naval and other credits
required by the act of Congress will
amount to about two hundred thousand,
including New York, which has not yet
been reported to the department, so,
that the President's call of July 18th,
is practically reduced to 300,000 men to
meet and take place of: First—The
new enlistnteats in the navy ; Second—
the casulties of battle, sickness, prison
ers, and desertion ; and Third—The
hundred days troops at ail others go,
ing out by eNpirati,on of service.
This Fall, eau hundred thousand new
troops,
promptly furnished is all that
Gen. Grant asks for the capture of
1-iclunond, and to give a finishing blow
to the rebel armies yet in the field.
The residue of the call would be ad
equate for garrisons in forts and cities,
and to guard all the lines of communi
cation and supply, and to tree the coun
try from guerrillas, give security to
trade, commerce and travel, and estab
lish peace, order and tranquility, in
every State. E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of-War
Very Latest from Atlanta—A Battle
Fought rear East Point—General
Hardee Killed.
W to DEPA RTMENT,
Atil INGTON Sept. 2.1
To Major-Gen Dir :—The following
telegram from General Slocum, dated
this day is Atlanta and just received,,
confirms the capture of that city, Gen.
Sherman has taken Atlanta. The 20th
corpsseccupies that city. The main ar
my on the Macon road near East Point.
A battle was fought near that point
in which Gen. Sherman was successful.
(Signed) IL W. SLOCUM, Maj.-Gen.
An unofficial report states that a bat
tle was fought near East Point by Gen.
Sherman with Hood. The rebel army
was cut in two with very heavy loss to
the enemy, and Gen. Hardee was killed.
Our loss is not known. (Signed.)
E. M. STANTON:, Secretary of War.
FROM G E NERAL GRANT.
,Vetvs from Atlan'a.— Report that Sherman
Whipped Hood.—Hood Said to hare Lost
40,00 Men.
WAR DEPA RT.M.KNT . , 1.
IYAsnmo . rox, September 4.
To Major General Dix
Crrr PoiNT, September 3
To Hon. E. M. Stanton
I have Richmond papers of to-day.
They contain rumors of a late battle at
Atlanta, but say that the War .I)epart
ment having no official information,. de
clines to form avy opinion from the I'll
-
I have no doubt however but Sher
man has gained a good success.
Before the dispatch of last night was
received announcing the occupation of
Atlanta by our troops, the fitet was
known to our pickets. The rebels hol
lowed over to our men' that Sherman
had. whipped Hood, and that the latter
had lost tOrty thousand men, and that
Mir troops werein Atlanta. All quiet
bore. (Signed)
U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant -General
Our 'South-western telegraph line
continues dciwn, and this • with a'heavy
storm that commenced in the evening
and is.,stall prevailing beyond Louisville
May damage the line so as to hinder
the arrival of details from Atlanta for a
day or two. (Signed)
1. M. Stoma, Secretary of War.
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