About midnight it was whispered that General Frank P. Blair, as the representative of B. Gratz Brown, of Missouri, and others had held a secret conference to unite the Greeley and Brown forces to make Greeley the candidate for President and Brown second on the ticket. We soon discovered that the movement had been thoroughly organized, and many Greeley men who were much more zealous than discreet at once accepted the new situation, and forced even Fenton to fall back to the support of Greeley. Fenton was one of Greeley’s most sincere and devoted friends, and it was with great reluctance that he joined in the effort to nominate Greeley when he felt that it could result only in crucifying him. The withdrawal of the Greeley men from the Davis-Greeley combination left Davis a hopeless candidate, as the convention was largely radical and little inclined to consider questions of expediency. The Liberal Republican National Convention was simply a huge mass-meeting, with nearly all of the States of the Union represented, and it was boiling over with go-as-you-please independence in politics. Stanley Matthews, afterward made Supreme Judge, was temporary president, and although he denounced the Grant administration in his opening speech as a monument of corruption, he soon thereafter bolted Greeley and supported Grant. Carl Schurz was made permanent president. The contest for President was evidently narrowed down to Adams and Greeley. I voted on every ballot for Adams, with whom I had little sympathy, and three-fourths of the Pennsylvania delegation voted with me. On the 6th ballot Greeley was nominated by changes of votes after the ballot had been announced, but I did not change the vote of Pennsylvania until he had received a majority of the votes of the convention. The following are the ballots for President: ══════════════════════════════╤═══════╤═══════╤══════╤═══════╤══════╤══════ │First. │Second.│Third.│Fourth.│Fifth.│Sixth. ──────────────────────────────┼───────┼───────┼──────┼───────┼──────┼────── Charles Francis Adams, Mass. │203 │ 243 │ 264 │ 279 │ 258 │ 324 Horace Greeley, New York │147 │ 245 │ 258 │ 251 │ 309 │ 332 Lyman Trumbull, Illinois │110 │ 148 │ 156 │ 141 │ 81 │ 19 B. Gratz Brown, Missouri │ 95 │ 2 │ 2 │ 2 │ 2 │ ―― David Davis, Illinois │ 92-1/2│ 75 │ 41 │ 51 │ 30 │ 6 Andrew G. Curtin, Pennsylvania│ 62 │ ―― │ ―― │ ―― │ ―― │ ―― Salmon P. Chase, Ohio │ 2-1/2│ 1 │ ―― │ ―― │ 24 │ 32 ══════════════════════════════╧═══════╧═══════╧══════╧═══════╧══════╧══════ Mr. Greeley’s nomination was made unanimous, and the convention proceeded to ballot for Vice-President as follows: