The State guard., 1848-03-28

- - - - z ,- ties had things all their own way, and were going it like the bull in the china shops making perfect smash of Clayism. Now the boot is on 'tother leg, for whiggery proper is day by day knocking the pins from under its rival.
 Root swears--by his beard that no whig save an ayowed supporter of the Wilnot Proviso, word for word and line for line, (not of something like it) can get ten thousand votes in Ohio. His district alone can turn the scale, if the whigs thcre- of withdraw their vote from the nominal federal candidate. He tells the Southern whgs, in about as many words, that they had better make up their minds without delay to support not only an ultra whig, in other respects, but real Giddings- whig where the question of anIi-slayery is concerned-as such will surely be the nominee, or northern Federalism will kick its presumptious, but really useless cola borers out of the party in trice. This is the tone of conscious strength, and the Southern whigs understand the fact. The qnid-nuncs say that immediately after this speech, Toombs of Georgia, wrote, eau tioning his party at home, "not to send delegates to their d-d convention.'
 Not content with his attack upon phun- keyism in his own party, Mir. R. under took to make q penny out of that with which the democracy is annoyed. He called upon it, whether in the North or South, to come to the rescue of unadultcr- ated Federalism, and that without delay. He assured Calhounism that salvation for the South was to be found only in elect ing an avowcd abolition whig or else one Of its dire enemies, Woodbury, Buchanan, Dallas or Cass, was bound to be chosen. He declared to Mir. John Van Buren by name, that if he would sec himself righted, he must do more than merely sputtcr at llerl'mcr and Utica conventions and pointed him to the beautiful example of the condition of phunlSey democracy in N. Hampshire, where it hangs dangling at the tail of the federal kite, dashing after it as rapidly and gracefully as though fl never had place elsewhere,
 Botts' letter, of which huge edition has been published, has created quite a sensation, but Roots speech will generate more. Bolts discourscs of Taylorism and Clayism in Virginia, where for all the good, in the way of obtaing electorial votes for Federalism in the approaching election, he might as we'll write of them as existing in Kamskatia or New Hol- land. Root, on the other hand, speaks of the condition of whig sentiment in whig strong holds where whig votes tell upon inc choice of a President, and therefore, when in the name of the whig party of the non-slaveholdng States, he says to Southern Fedcralism-down on your knees and beg foryour whig li!e--it means something.
 Mir. Pendleton from Va, has probably prepared a reply to the letter of Bolts, in which. on behalf of the claims of the commander of the army of occupation, he is as tart and decided as his rival pronun- ciamento- maker.
 After all this Botts-and- Pendcton-Vir ginia federal squabb.c, is but tempest in a pot
 The letter of the latter has not yet Jeff the printing office, l understand.
 Mir. Calhoun attacked the President, fercely, to-day, in speech on the Ten Regiment bill, accusing him of being a usurper, &c. Webster sat by nodding appreciation at the points constitutional made by Calhoun. This is the first time in the history of the Government, that these two have agreed upona mocted con- stitutional question. They coalese now, only by way of pulling down the Presi- dent.
 In the House the whigs, after two or three speeches, ordered the printing of a document concerning army contracts, got up fraudulently to strengthen whiggery.
 B. WASHINGTON CITY, March Is, 1S4S.
 The vote ofthe House, yesterday, order