Thomas S.Bocock, fourteen years a representative in the National Congress, afterwards Speaker of the Confederate Congress, came from Virginia.
Montgomery Blair, who like his more impulsive brother Frank had fallen back into the party which seemed to be the natural home of the Blair family, came from Maryland as the colleague of William Pinckney Whyte.
New York presented a strong array of delegates, among whom the most conspicuous were Horatio Seymour, Samuel J.Tilden, Henry C.Murphy, Augustus Schell, and Francis Kernan.

Several of the regularly chosen delegates from Ohio gave way in order that the State might, in Mr.
Pendleton's interest, secure greater parliamentary and debating talent; and to this end, Allen G.Thurman, Clement L.Vallandingham, George E.
Pugh, and George W.Morgan appeared on the floor of the Convention.
Pennsylvania sent ex-Senator Bigler and Judge George W.Woodward, whose ability was equaled by his rank Bourbonism.

William R.Morrison and William A.Richardson of Illinois, William W.Eaton of Connecticut, Josiah G.Abbott of Massachusetts, James A.Bayard of Delaware, John G.Carlisle of Kentucky, Joseph E.McDonald and Daniel W.Voorhees of Indiana, were names familiar in Democratic councils.
Mr.August Belmont's lurid speeches had become the accepted signal-guns of national Democratic conventions, and he did not disappoint expectation on this occasion.

His prophetic vision and historic recital were even more expanded and alarming than before.

He drew a dark picture of evils which he charged upon the Republican party, and then proceeded: "Austria did not dare to fasten upon vanquished Hungary, nor Russia to impose upon conquered Poland, the ruthless tyranny now inflicted by Congress on the Southern States.