Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-05-18
MARYLAND FOR CLAY!


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MARYLAND FOR CLAY!
BALTIMORE, Thursday, May ll-l0P.M.
The Wing State Convention has declared
Henry Clay to DC the first choice of the Wings
of Maryland for the Presidential candidate.
The entire Delegation appointed 10 the Ma
tional Convention consists of Clay men.
LATER.-The convention resolved that Mr..
CLAY is their first choice, and Gen. TAYLOR
their second. Three of the delegates are Tay
lor men.
o. There are many eminent Wings here,
at present, some of them Delegates to the Ma
tional Convention, who, in the event of North
ern or Eastern man being wanted the Wing
candidate for Vice President of the u. States
will 60 for Gen. James Wilson, of New Ilamp-
shire. While such names as those of Wilson,
Seward Fillmore, Davis, aud others are before
the National Convention, it will DE hard to make
bad choice Washington Correspondent Of The
" Y. Tribune.
0JP Gov. Henry Dodge, of Wisconsin, is
spoken OF in the Albany Atlas, and other Dem
ocratic papers, as a candidate for the Presidency.
O. Henry A. Wise is delegate TO the loco
foco National Convention al Baltimore, from Vir.
ginia This is strange.
JUICE MCLEAN. The Washington cores
pondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, says Dur
ing the past week, large body of Wings in
both houses, have openly expressed the desire
to adopt Judge Mclean as a compromise can
dldate. This demonstration is confined to no
section or interest, but proceeds from an anxiety
to reconcile all contention and to 90 into the
canvass with one who has every thing to recon-
mend him.. Simultaneously, several respectable
l.. GO IL
name at the head of their columns Ohio Stale
Journal
The Kennebec Journal, the leading Wing
paper in Maine, has the following item:
"Several Of the most influential Wing papers
in Ohio and Indiana, recommend Judge Nc
Lean as the most suitable candidate for the
Presidency. There is much to be said for him,
and nothing against HIM"
GEN SCoTr. The Portland Advertiser has
review of the life of General Scott, which ex-
hibits the General in an attractive light. Gen
Scott is undoubtedly man of excellent charac-
ter, honorable principles, finished educalon
brave as Caesar, "Whig from the start" lives
in New-Jersey, no friend of slavery, and entire
ly incapable Of a mean and dishonorable action
GFsThe Wings of the 33d Congressional
District, New York, Wyoming and Genesee
counties,) held their Convention on the 9th
James d. Merrill was appointed Delegate to the
National Convention. motion instructing hun
to vote for Henry Clay, was laid on the table,
The following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, that we have looked upon The en-
deavors of the National Administration to dis
grace and PROSTATE Winfield Scott, in the heart
of an enemy's country, with feelings of the most
loathing disgust; that if packed Court of In
quiry shall tail 10 do him justice, the people will
not. Like steel from the refner's fire, he will
come out from their unholy hands shining bright
er than before he was assaulted and insulted.--
The veteran with two British bullets in his
shoulder, cannot suffer from the pigmy efforts Of
designing and intriguing men to crush him.
MORE LoCo-Foco HARMoSY.--The Calhoun
lists of South Carolina will not be represented in
the Baltimore Convention, and have coptemptu-
ously and unequivocally turned their back upon
it, in spite of all the en.reaties of the Govern
ment organ. The Charleston Mercury of the 9Th,
repudiates the appointment of Gen. Commander
as one of the Delegates The Mercury thinks
it is a pity to disturb the State with a matter
which is evidently not to lis taste, and concludes
by saying that the great body Of the people of
South Carolina rest quietly on the conviction
that they can neither gather grapes from thorrS
nor figs from histles."
90 The Washington Correspondent of the
Philadelphia North American says that there is
some talk among the locofocos of nominating
Mr.. Atchison, U. $. Senator from Missouri, for
President.
THE New YoRK BARNBuRNERs.-JoHNV VAN
buren,, in his late Hudson speech, thus pours oil
on what the Sentinel considers the ridiculous
and disgusting" disscntions in the Locofoco par
~ in New York The Sentinel will be obliged
to go Eat em again Johns faith in the strength
OF Old Hunkerlsn, is amazingly small! Hear