Among the most conspicuous and most offensive of this latter class,--those who had especially distinguished themselves for the bitterness, and in some cases for the vulgarity, of their personal assaults upon Mr.Lincoln,--were Mr.Vallandingham of Ohio, Fernando Wood, Benjamin Wood and James Brooks of New York, Edmund Burke and John G.Sinclair of New Hampshire, Edward J.Phelps of Vermont, George W.
Woodward, Francis W.Hughes and James Campbell of Pennsylvania, and R.B.Carmichael of Maryland.

Among the leading Democrats, less noted for virulent utterances against the President, were Samuel J.Tilden, Dean Richmond and Sanford E.Church of New York, John P.Stockton and Joel Parker of New Jersey, David R.Porter, William Bigler and Asa Packer of Pennsylvania, James E.English of Connecticut, Robert C.
Winthrop and Josiah G.Abbott of Massachusetts, William Beach Lawrence of Rhode Island, and Reverdy Johnson of Maryland.
Mr.Vallandingham's participation in the proceedings was met with objection.

He had not spoken more violently and offensively against President Lincoln and against the conduct of the war than some other members of the convention, but his course had been so notorious and had been rendered so odious by his punishment, both in being sent beyond the rebel lines and afterwards in being defeated for governor of his State by more than one hundred thousand majority, that many of the delegates were not content to sit with him,--a sentiment which Mr.
Vallandingham is said to have considered one of mawkish sentimentality, but one to which he deferred by quietly withdrawing from all participation in the proceedings.

It was believed, and indeed openly asserted, at the time, that if he had chosen to remain the attempt to eject him by resolution, as was threatened, would have led to a practical dissolution of the convention.
The work of the convention was embodied in a long series of resolutions reported by Mr.Cowan of Pennsylvania, and an address prepared and read by Mr.Henry J.Raymond.

Both the resolutions and the address simply emphasized the issue already presented to the country by the antagonistic attitude of the President and Congress.