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d at any time and place that the Executive National Committee shall designate. The President then stated the question before the Convention to be on ordering the previous question, to proceed to the nomination of a candidate for the Presidency, and it was ordered without dissent. The vote was then taken by States, the chairman of each delegation announcing the vote of each State as they were called: McClellanSeymour Maine50 New Hampshire70 Vermont30 Massachusetts120 Rhode Island40 Connecticut60 New York336 New Jersey70 Pennsylvania260 Delaware03 Kentucky07 Ohio136 Indiana9½3½ Illinois160 Michigan30 Missouri74 Minnesota40 Wisconsin80 Kansas30 California50 Oregon30 202½23½ Several delegation having given their votes for Horatio Seymour, when the call of States had been finished Mr. Seymour declined the nomination. He knew General McClellan did not seek the nomination. That able officer had declared it would be more agreeable to him to resume