Two future Presidents were on the delegation from Ohio, with General Schenck and Stanley Matthews and the influential German editor Frederick Hassaurek.

Oliver P.Morton came from Indiana, Lyman Trumbull from Illinois, Fairchild and Howe from Wisconsin, Zachariah Chandler and Carl Schurz (then editor of the _Detroit Post_) from Michigan.

The border slave States sent strong men.

N.B.Smithers came from Delaware; Senator Creswell, Francis Thomas, and C.C.Fulton of the _Baltimore American_, from Maryland; Governor Boreman, A.W.Campbell and Nathan Goff from West Virginia; Robert J.Breckenridge accompanied ex-Attorney-general Speed from Kentucky; while Missouri sent Governor Fletcher, sustained by an able delegation, of whom Van Horn, Finkelnburg and Louis Gottschalk were prominent members.

A number of business men, headed by E.W.