The State guard., 1848-07-11
$3 En Advance.
NO. 2S.

opinions as to the power of Congress or any other body other than the people in convention, to form State government to restrict the introduction of slaves in the territories, and enclosed him a copy of the Alabama resol ltions--to which 1 re- teived no answer. Mir. Yancoy inform. ed the delegation at Washington that the letter he had received from Mir. ". was by no means satisfactory. The dciega- ton met in caucus in Baltimore, and en. ] quiry was made for Jufge Woedha. y's- opinions. We then had presented to u some eight pages of letter addressed to Hon. D. H. Lewis, dated, | think, in January, lS48, headed pr;,,dte and conf dential. The enquiry was at once made, if the violation of the seal ol confidence was authorized. Mr. Y. made known the terms on which we could hear the document read they were that we should receive it as satsfa ction for our own minds, and that we were not to make known by publication in a newspaper or verbally, what the letter contained. We were also permitted to hear read few lines from Charles, the son of Mir. Wood bury, the purport of which was that we ought to be satisfied with his papa's posi- lion, and not to press him with questions at that time, as it would injure him in other quarters. l at once refused to hear or have any thing to do with the letter OH those terms, and after some angry discus sion, left the room, so that those who wished to hear it might do so. l learned that Mr. King. of Perry, made objections of similar character, and that twas not read. On this State of facts we went into convention-some votellor Mr. Woodbu- ", others for Mir. Buchanan It is for the people of Alabama and not Mir. I. to de- eide who has been fathless to the country. 1 am yet to see the "relable authority" and the "open avowar" of opinion for the protection of Southern rights. No dJubt the public would be gratifed, as the ma
 ority of the Alabama delegation would be, to have these things made public in a tangible form. We would be pleased to see Mir. Woodbury "blazing the way for others to follow' in leading public opinion. We make no objection to the fact that Mir. W. was nominated in the convention D1 all oDtil anu dNONfu tLJbllliNHllcl uiitA to the support he received from the Now England States; yet under all the circum. stances Mir. Yancey was singnlarly asso- ciated. Mir. Y. accuses Us, with nearly all the Sonth, of sacrificing our rights for the Vice Presidency, forgetting in his zeal of censure that the resolutions adopted by the convention did rot come up for con- sderation until after the nomination for Vice President had been made. Mr. Y. also says in his Wetump<a speech tha. the resolution he offered was submitted to the Alabama del gItion and "unani. mously approved" Mir. Bowdon came to the delegation and made feeling ap- peal to have YanDey put cn the committee on resolutions, and presented slip of paper with the resolutions or something similar on it. objected, as the rcsolu- ton was complex and subject to too much difference of construction. Aier much objection, delay and dissatisfaction, and MT. Y. had paid us visit, hc was permit ted to go on the committee with the expec- tation on our part that in case the com mitttee did not adopt that particular esou- ton, there would be an end of it. It 5 very true we voted for the resolution when offered, yet we did not consider It essen- tal. How consistent sir. '. appears when he said to the convention that ho heartily approved of all the resolutions a'optel, and that, he would with zeal support the nomination if the resolution offered by himself were even passed, and notwithstanding the seventh resolution was more, full than his in few days we hear him pouring out the vials of wrath and abuse on Gen. Cass to his admiring friends in Charleston.
 | If have not already shown Mir. '. to be a disorganizer, and unworthy longer to act as leader for the old fashion mat ter of fact democracy of Alabama, think site sketch of great devotion to the uni ty and support of the men and measures of his party will do so. When he resigned his seat in Congress, heaping abuse on the Northern democracy, as unworthy of being associated with us in Convention, it was seen at the time to be feeler, put forth to test the efficacy of the proposition now made for Southern convention. In the next place, we find the fearless devo- tee of principle endeavoring to defeat the nominee of his party--an older, abler, and better soldier than himself, and for what to elevate his whig brother to his succession. In the spring of. ls4S, con sfdering Taylorism likely to be in the as' cendant, he is the eloquent eulogist of that General, and stands ready to jump on his back at the first favorable opportunity, and ride him into power and popularity. It seems that in the fall, the sober intelli- gence of Alabama democracy is not like ly to be misled by military glory, and at Q meeting held in Montgomery, early in the winter, Mir. Y. takes his high ground again for democratic organization, and is ready to go into convention with the faith less democracy of the North. He lectu- res in this meeting MT. Curry, for desiring to wait little while for further develop ments ;--for weeks he is engaged in pro wing Mir. Winthrop (as he can now Mir. Cass) the main support r fnottte origina- tOr of tho Prnuiso-ond in thn demolition