The Democratic Convention at Baltimore accepted Mr. Greeley as the
party candidate for the Presidency on the first ballot, and by a vote of 686 to 38. The delegates, in fact, went to Baltimore with precise instructions, and the next highest can- didate on the list, Mr. Black, of Pennsylvania, obtained only twenty-one votes. The Cincinnati " platform " was accepted as it stood, the Democrats only adding that they wished to forbid the re-election of any President. A few strong Democrats still hold out, unable to endure the candidature of the man who has opposed them so long ; but the party is evidently with Mr. Greeley, be- lieving that he will restore State-rights. Mr. Greeley's friends are diligently spreading a rumour that Mr. Adams will be his Secretary of State, hoping thus to attract the Conservative Republicans, but the report can scarcely be well founded. The two men are too different in character and political tendencies to occupy such a relation, frequent as the arrangement has been in American history. Such a choice would diminish many of the most substantial objections to the election of Mr. Greeley, but would show him more than ever determined to secure State-rights.
