Tilden was one, admission to their body upon equal terms with 'the delegates from other States, assigning as a reason that the convention which chose them had declared that the immunity from slavery contained in the Jeffersonian ordinance of 1787 should be applied to all the Territories of the Northwest, so long as they should remain under the government of Congress. Mr. Tilden was selected by his colleagues of the delegation to make their report to i their constituents, -- a report which helps to make the Utica Convention of June, 1848, one of the most momentous in the history of the country.

"With this intolerant proscription of the New York Deinocnvcy began the disastrous schism which was destined to rend in twain both the great ( parties of the country and practically to annihilate the political organi- 1 zation which had given a wise and beneficent government to the country for half a century. Then, too, and there were laid the foundations of the political conglomerate, which in 18(i(i acipiired, and for a (juarter of a century retained, uninterrupted control of our Federal (iovernment. . . .

" Just twenty-eight years after the delegate from Xc-w York, who had been selected by his colleagues for the purjwse, broke to their outraged constituents the story of their State's humiliation, that same delegate

received the suffrages of a large majority of his countrymen for the highest honoi' in their gift ; and to-day, through that delegate's influence, another citizen of New York who was nominated by a Democratic National Convention, which imposed no sectional tests, and who was elected without the vote of a single slaveholder, becomes the chief magistrate and most honored citizen of the Kepublic.