ABOLITIONIST CONVENTION.

NOMINATED

New York, N. Y., November, 1847.

For President, John P. Hale,

of New Hampshire.

For Vice-President, Leicester King,

of Ohio.

Mr. Hale afterwards withdrew.

LIBERTY LEAGUE CONVENTION.

Rochester, N. Y., June 2, 1848.

NOMINATED

For President, Gerritt Smith,

of New York.

For Vice-President, Rev. Charles E. Foote,

The election occurred on November 7, 1848. Congress in 1845 had passed an act requiring all of the presidential electors to be appointed in each state on the

Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November of the year in which the election was held. The electors were thus chosen for the first time under the new law.

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Zachary Taylor,
of Louisiana.

Lewis Cass,

of Michigan.

Millard Fillmore,
of New York.

During this period Congress was divided politically as follows:

Thirty-first Congress.

Senate 35 Democrats, 25 Whigs, 2 Free Soil
House-116 Democrats, 111 Whigs

Thirty-second Congress.

Senate 36 Democrats, 23 Whigs, 3 Free Soil..
House-140 Democrats, 88 Whigs, 5 Free Soil.

Election of 1852

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

Baltimore, Md., June 1-6, 1852.

Chairman, JOHN W. DAVIS,

NOMINATED

of Indiana.

For President, Franklin Pierce,

of New Hampshire.

For Vice-President, William R. King,

of Alabama.

The convention soon reached an organization, but a protracted struggle ensued for the nomination. Forty-nine ballots for President were taken, a condensed summary of which follows:

Scattering votes were cast for a number of others besides

those given.

For Vice-President, William R. King, of Alabama, was