The State guard., 1848-06-27

| iHdilJ Oi lnc SOullu ilctlS Ol liltt OIdte U reads Gen. Commanders letter, there will not be quite so many found tied down by the iron manacles of John c. Calhoun.
 MOn. NVm. L. Yamcey.
 In consequence of desire to insert a synopsis of the speech delivered by this gentleman, in the Council Room, on Sat urday the IT inst, we had not room in our columns of last week to give his singular position that attention, perhaps, which its novelty requires, but promised an attempt to do. so in this. And in raising our pen against man who has been so peculiarly related to us, individuality, is nothing more than a pleasing task. But when we recollect that he has more than once rallied the democrats from the hills and dales, in contests that required nerve and eloquence, and has done the party-the principles of which we hold next in sa- credness to the Christian religion-so much good in defending those principles when 'assailed by phantom opposition, the task is performed with feelings of re- gret. Nevertheless, the crisis has come, and Mir. Yancey has been an active par ticipant in bringing it about. Having placed himself in such position as to have no further claim upon that party-a party which has fostered and elevated him to the position he formerly occupied and now tha: he is undertaking to destroy those principles for which he once so faithfully labored, it becomes the duty of his political students to speak out freely as regards his attempts to engraft upon the great Democratic party, measures and pol icies that cannot be hereafter taken as pre- cedents.
 During last spring, when writer in the "State Gazette" was attacking MT. Yancey's amendments, we took grounds against the discussion, because we believ- ed no good could grow out of t at that particular time. We did not approve of the 9th and 10th resolutions on the con- trary, we expressed a regret that they had been adopted by the Conventions We advised the writer to wait until a proper period, as the resolutions had been adopted by the Convention, and if they were intended by MT. Yancey (which we believed) as pretext to dissent from the nominees of the Baltimore Convention, it would come out in due time. Now that that time has arrived, and Mir. Yancey has shown his cloven hoof we are free to express our opinions of the, instructions" which he sets forward as an excuse for his course in the Baltimore Convention. We must first attempt, however, to show his position (if we can) as regards the Balti- more Convention.
 S'He urges the right of Congress to pro. trct slavery in the newly acquired territo- ries, or any species of property that may emigrate to said territories, while under territorial government, and oppose the democratic candidates for not interfering in this, purely judicial question:" tAc- cording to all law, Congress has neither the right nor the power to protect or ex- clude slavery. That power has no right whatever to interfere in the matter, and if the Southern people concede that right to Congress, composed as it now is of whigs and Wilmot Proviso men, they will certainly take steps to exclude slavery from all such territories, and then we would ask of MT. Yancey and his South Carolina friends, what becomes of the on. y strong position the South has for her shleld 2 Is it not just as feasible to claim of Congress the right to exclude slavery from the territories, as it is to claim it's protection of the same in such territories? So much for this gentleman's position.-- Asa short horse is easy rubbed down, we think this fact is enough to prove the untenable position that MT. Yancey occu- pies as regards this matter in the territo- ries. aE
 Now that Mir. Yancey has give his po- fsition upon this question, we cannot think 1t anything but necessary to give the dem- ocratic view ot the question. The dem- ocratic party occupy the grounds that Con- gross has no right whatever to interfere in the matter, as is plainly set forth in the 7th resolution of the Democratic Platform at Baltimore, which reads as follows: That Congress has no power, under