With a whirl of excitement all the States followed, and the nomination was made on the twenty-second ballot by a unanimous vote.

Mr.Seymour had, no doubt, been sincere in declining to be a candidate; but the prolonged balloting had produced a great anxiety among the delegates, and the pressure had at last come in a form which he could not resist.
The ticket was completed without delay.

Just prior to the Convention General Frank Blair had written a remarkable letter to Colonel Brodhead, one of the Missouri delegates.

General Blair's name had been mentioned as a Presidential candidate, and in this letter he defined his position.

He insisted, as the supreme issue, that the Reconstruction Acts and their fruits must be overthrown.