The tactics of New York had undoubtedly defeated Pendleton, and the same men were now planning to nominate Chief Justice Chase.

The leading and confidential friends of Mr.Pendleton were resolved that the New York plot should not succeed, and that Mr.Chase should not, in any event, be the candidate.

In a frame of mind which was half panic, half reason, they concluded that it would be impossible to defeat the Chief Justice if his name should be placed before the Convention by the united delegation of New York speaking through the glowing phrases of Mr.Seymour, who, as it was rumored, would next morning leave the chair for that purpose.

It was concluded, therefore, in the consultations of Mr.Pendleton's friends, that the movement should be anticipated by proposing the name of Mr.Seymour himself.
The consultations in which these conclusions were reached were made up in large part of the aggressive type of Western Democrats, who had been trained to political fighting under the lead of Stephen A.Douglas.
Among the most active and combative was Washington McLean of the Cincinnati _Enquirer_.

It was this class of Democrats that finally rendered the nomination of the Chief Justice impossible.
On the following morning (of the last day of the Convention, as it proved), the Ohio delegation took the first and most important step, in formally withdrawing the name of Mr.Pendleton.