The State guard., 1848-05-30
WASHINGTON CITY, May I6, ls4s.

r. U law of last year, was nomlnally de- bated to-day. B.
 WASHINGTON CITY, May 16, 1s4s.
 It may be written down as fixed fact, that the Louisiana delegation in the feder- al National Convention will vote for MT. Clay. Such has been the understanding in whig circles at Washington for the last three or four days. However, this unexpected determination of the Louisa na delegates will have little positive effect on their convention as among the oppos- ton members of Congress, it has for some days past been understood-thoroughly understood that Taylorism is as dead (for the nomination) as it will kill federalism proper in November next. The Brantly Manager letter, the first of the ''few more Jeff" has gone to reconcile many of the general admirers in Congress to the in- evitable result of their convention. The convention or State Mass Meeting to which it was really addressed, was con- posed altogether of the phunkiest fish to be scraped together in the State Its leaders were worn out hacks heretofore active, some with the democratic party and others with federalism, until one by one they have been kicked eff as likely to injure rather than benefit any cause with which they might be identified while the bal ance were men distinguished only by the fidelity with which they adhered to the practice of voting one year with the whigs and the next with democrats. The reso- lutions adopted by this precious gathering and so cordially endorsed by the comman- der of the army of occupation as express ing his views to the letter, were just such as one might invariably expect to eminate from such people. Affiliation with this convention in the eyes of all whigs in the region of Washington, who are whigs, is so rank an offence that he will never be forgiven.
 The expediency whigs are already blessing their stars that they have escap- ed the certainty of Tylorising themselves involved in the nomination of the Gener- al. By the bye-it is due to the claims of the commander of the army of occu- patton from the simon-pure federal party that the Tylerite papers should republish the resolutions of this Baltimore Con vcntion which as the General assures Mir. Mayer. meets his heartiest concurrence and emphatic endorsement. They will be found to be nought but a string of highly wrought compliments to his un- doubted capacity as a statesman his valor &c. Indeed, if one estimates the Gen. eral by the standard he thus modestly adopts Washington will appear but a circumstance to him as a patriot-Jeffer- son as statesman, and Jackson as a corrector of public abuses. These reso- lutions accompanied by the Generals letter of approval will make the richest modicum of these days of extravagant audation and remarkable modesty among public men. Punch has perpetrated noth- ing to equal them for year and day.
 The Senatorial successor of MT. Con- missioner Sevier, the Hon. John Borland delivered his maiden speech on Monday last in reply to the four days scattering effort of Mr. Reverdy Johnson. He made a very favorable impression as to his tall ents and attainments, upon our political friends in Washington. He bids fair to prove an important acquisition to the de- mocracy of the Senate.
 Mondays session of the Senate was also marked by an elaborate speech from Mir. Calhoun upon the Yucatan question, in which his chief aim was to show that this is not a question calling tor the enforcement of the policy laid down in the celebrated declaration of Mir. M onroe. Indeed he mentioned that ne- cessity for this policy died with the occa- sion calling forth the declaration, which, he avowed, was not designed by Mir. Monroe as his cabinet advisers for appli- cation in aftertimes,
 MT. Calhoun's speech was marked with less asperity than usual, while it lacked none of the vigor or subtlety of reasoning which always characterizes his efforts. It might perhaps have "told 3 upon the Senate but for the suspicion of invidious discontentment which attaches of late to all he says and does in connec- tion with the federal party.
 Indeed, it is hard to tell whether MT. Calhoun or our own sore-headed leader in the State of New York are most bent on making mischief for the national democ- racy in revenge for the action of the Bal timore Convention of 1S44. B.
 AUBURN HILL, MAY Sd, le4S.
 To the Editors of the Alabama Journal
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