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Letter from Hon. John p. Kennedy.
The following Letter from Hon. J. P. KESNE-
py. of Baltimore, to ROBERT G. CAMPBELL, Esq
president OF the Young Mems Henry Clay Asso.
,iation of this City, has been put into our hands
10. publication. We shall show our estimate OF
its quality by assigning it to the most prominent
place in our columns, with the full conviction
that it will not fail to arrest the attention OF true
hearted Wings in every quarter of the Union
AS clear statement of the causes which result
ed in the defeat of Mr. Clay, and calm review
of the past and present condition of the Wing
party, it is above all praise; while for purity OF
sentiment, elevated patriotism, and classic ele.
eance of style, it has been excelled by no politi
cal document that has fallen under our notice
since tee Election. On one point only-we re-
fer 10 the writer's remarks on the Naturalization
Laws-will any Wing dissent from the views SO
forcibly and eloquently expressed.
But enough. The Letter shall speak for
itself.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 81, 1sH
Dear Sir have received your note of the 3Oth
ult. informing me that / had been unanimously
elected an Honorary Member of the Young Mems
CLAY Association OF the City and County of New
York. 1 desire that you will express my thanks TO
the Association for this compliment, and assure
them that set the highest value upon their esteem
80 kindly rendered to me by your letter.
This manifestation of the good opinion OF the
Young Wings Of New-York, is not the less grateful
for reaching me at moment Of most unexpected
disappointment to that noble party Of which it s our
pride to be members. We may all gather consola
ton in this disaster from the generous aacrity with
which every true Wing in the land renews his vows
of devotion to mis- country in this her moment oi
peril. We have lost our battle, tits true. Our pre-
sent hopes have been crushed in great national
calamity; but the spirit of the Wings has not been
crushed and we look steadfastly forward to the
dewning of brighter day when the still persevering
snergy Of our friends may retrieve the shattered ior'
tunes of the Republic. The whole land, not the
Whig party alone, is likely to suffer under the
scourge of the recent election. The tribe OF dema'
gogues may rejoice; few political leaders may re-
ioice. some chosen seekers of Office, out of the
thousands who hunger and thirst for government
emoluments, may rejoice; the tens of thousands
who have been duped may rejoice, perhaps, for
little while; but the great body Of the American
People, even those who have won, as we'll as those
who have lost the victory, will mourn over triumph
that, il will eventually be found has struck down
the integrity and the prosperity of the Nation. Ii
will turn out to be triumph only gained by The
temporary alliance Of discordant factions who can
como 70 no reckoning with each other oil the true
issues for which they strove, without mutual scorn
for the dissimulaton by which each has deceived
the other.
lnthe midstof this general sorrow which pervades
the ranks Of the Wings, we not without topics OF
joy and congratulation. We have joyful pride in
the consciousness that the great mass of the worthy,
the patriotic and the intelligent OF the land are united
strong and true to our cause.-the more united,
stronger and truer in this its adversy because they
feel that now invokes still earnest proof Of
their attachment to rfe country Never has there
been more visible demonstration Of the hazards TO
which popular representative government is expo
sed, than that exhibited in the elevation of James X.
Polk, with all the impedimens Of his undistinguish
ed history and of his equivocal principles, which no
zeal of investigation has been successful to explore,
over Henry Clay, the most eminent of living States
men, the purest and brightest ornament OF the Ma
ton-that man who, OF all others, has most thor
oughly identified his name with whatever. in the
public annals Of his time, has made our Union a
powerful and happy community. When such a man
as the first is deliberately preferred to the latter, we
may cease 10 boast Of thar distinctive excellence IN
our scheme Of our Government which attributes TO
the selection by suffrage the certainty OF an abier
Chief than he who succeeds TO afagistracy by rhe
accident of BIRTH The history Of this canvass has
proved to us that, in unhappy emergency, men OF
renewn, of known service, of accumulated honoIs
and of long avow cd political sentiments must needs
be thrust asida for one whose whole strength is
found in his destitu6on of all these, and in the
antagonism between these two opponents the wiser
and the better has been overthrown. What true
lover of his country would not count it a greater
honor TO fall with Henry Clay than rise with such
an adversary Toall with all those who have striv-
en- to promote the great American aims emblazonea
upon his banner, than rise with the shifting equiv
ocations which the opponent flag, have futiered
in the not less variable breeze to which it has been
flung. Ashamed ofits false pretences, its conceal
ments and its d;scords, Loco-Focoism made no pro-
clsmation to the people of its designs. Its May
Convention prac,iced the ilse of appointing Com
mittee to prepare address OF exposition OF princi-
ples, but November came without that document
No committee had the hardihood TO venture upon
the ordeal of such proclamation. The labors OF
the canvass were found be more prohtably direct
ed to the coinage Of local tenets adapted to prevail
ne local opinions, and, still moro effectively, TO the
task of caumnatng, by the bssest compost OF false
ofe ena lIc