The State guard., 1848-06-27

ted in the Senate for the bills which Presi- dent Polk had so uobly vetoed ]; and'he had even gone so far as to have voted against Mr. Folks late masterly veto of that second ''bill of abomlnations, the Harbor and River bill. The entire West and part of the North-much the largest part--were devoted advocates of this cor rupt system. By that vote against the veto, Gen. Cass had enshrined himself in the heart of the great West, including Kentucky and Missouri, and a part of Tennessee. Hence he was emphatically the candidate of the West.
 2d. The whole North are Wilmot Pro- visoists, and the position of Gen. Cass, which promises to attain the ends aimed at by Wilmot better than Wilmot is prepared to do, is of course acceptable to them.
 These two positions gave to Gen. Cass such a preponderance of strength at the North that the floating vote were attrac. ted to him; and in choosing among the candidates those Southern delegates who did not mean to be governed exclusively by the Southern principle were naturally attracted to the strong man. 1t will thus be seen that the main element of his strength consisted in his recreancy to a long established Democratic principle; nti-internal improvement by the General Government. This involves much, and were reason enough for rejecting this nomination. If it becomes the policy of the Government to distribute it's treasure in internal Improvements, it must become its policy to raise that treasuer by taxes. We have heretofore been saved from it in its ruinous extent by reason of the veto power exercised by Jackson and Polk. Under Gen. Cass, however, this power will not be exercised.
 The Convention, then (continued MT, Y and its nominee, are of such chaiac- ter as neither to excite our respect nor command our support.
 MT. Yancey then gave something of the history of the Convention, and illustra- ted the spirit which governed it in it's ac- ton. Amongst other things, he instanced as evidence of its unsoundness as an ex- ponent of Democratic views its refusal to adopt its resolutions, ayowing its princi- pies, and the platform upon which it de- signed to place its nomination before the country before it went into the nomination. And now mark the result, he continued :; After the nomination was made Com mittee was raised to report series of resolutions. MT. Y. said that the Con- mittee met, on the evening of its appoint ment, and sat until 10 at night. Before it adjourned the resolution in relation to the veto power had been amended so as to show its happy effects in saving the country ''from corrupting system of general internal improvements" It was unanimously y agreed to as sound Demo- cratic doctrine, and as deserved com- pliment to Mir. Polk. When tho Commit tee met the next morning the first propo. sition made was to reconsider that amend ment, and to strike it out. 1 inquired why It had been admitted to be good Democratic doctrine the night before The answer was. 'Gen. Cass voted against that veto of Mir. Polk, and if we put this in we will condemn our nomi- nee 2"
 These virtuous politicians these trustworthy representatives of Democra- cy; had discovered by morning that the avowal of truth would put an error to blush !--that the praise of a patriot would be the condemnation of political here- tic
 The veto was not reconsidered but it was, as MT. Y. firmly believed, because it was too barefacea even for that body but that if this idea that Cass had voted against Mir. Polk Veto had been thought of before the amendment was adopted, it never would have granted those resolu- tions. As it is, it will indeed become a thorn in the side of the nominee
 There were several other equally ap- posite illustrations of the want of princ- pie which actuated the Democratic Ma tional Convention instanced by the spea- ker: but the above will suffice as sulli- ciently characteristic.
 MI. l uilCcJ Wcit Oli to say lidt tluS cut off from entertaining any hopes of jus tee being done to us by the National De- mocratic Party, what were we to do , Certainly we had nothing to hope from the great Whig Party. It had always been opposed to us and always, from its prin- ciples and the locality of its masses. must continue to be so. Even Gen. Taylor, a Southern man, and slaveholder, to get it's nomination, had to write that unhappy Allison letter; thus depriving himself of any positive power as an Executive off, cer to do good in the event of what we conceive to be unconstitutional legislation --and in which, so strong is the spirit of opposition to the South in the Whig ranks generally, he had to blink the most vital of all the questions of the day
 Our hope, fellow-citizens, said Mir. Y [, is in ourselves; in our own unpurchasa- ble energies; in our own incorruptable integrity in the people of the whole South. They will be true to themselves. With this great Southern principle as a nucleus, let us call upon the South to ral- l ly as one man to meet in their primary assemblies; to meet in Southern Conyen- tion; to consult and agree upon ticket for President and Vice President which l shall be acceptable to all. by reason of its