Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-07-31
OFFICIAL.
APPOINTMENT BY THE PRESIDENT,


By and aoih the adrice and consent Of The Senate.
JouN p. KENNEDY, of Maryland, to be Secre-
tary of the Navy, in the place Of WILLIAM a. Ora
HAM, resigned
Though we have not been able to see, in the fact
of Mr. GRAHAM's having received the Wing nomi-
nation for the Office of Vice President, any sufficient
reason for his yacating the post which he has filed
for the last two years with universal appreciation,
yet since his sensitive decacy has dictated that
course it is with great satisfaction that we greet the
succession to his place in the Cabinet Of gentleman
of so liberal spirit and consistent in his political
principles and conduct as Mr.. KENNEDY. The APP
pointment must be considered the more compliment
tary to MIN as being conferred by one with whom
he had stood side by side in the trying Of the
Twenty-seventh Congress, in support of the Wing
cause when vitality endangered by the lamented
death of President HARRISON. 1t was there that
President FILLMORE and Mr.. KENNEDY formed an
estimate Of each other which time has rpened into
the relations which now exist between them.
We subjoin the correspondence between Mr..
GRAHAM and the PRESIDENT attending the resig-
nation Of the former gentleman:
NAVY DEPARTMENT. JUNE 20 iooz.
| SIN: Having accepted the candidacy for the second
Office in the gift Of the American people, deem pro-
per relieve your Administration from any possible cr
tcsm embarrassment my account, in the approach
ing canvass by retiring from my place the head Of the
Navy Department Therefore beg that you will approve
my designations which is hereby rendered.
BE assured Mr. President that take leave of you and
my colleagues at the Council Board with whom have
labored in harmony for the past two years. with
tons of deep regret that shall cherish the lveest
terest for the fame and of your Administration
during the residue of your term; and that shall
bear my testimony the disinteresed DEVOTION patriot
ISM and ability with which you have given your faculties
to the consolidation of the Unon and the interest honor
and renown of the whole country.
With considerations of the snceres respect and esteem
1 am, very faithfully, your obedient servant,
| WILL. A. GRAHAM.
| President of the United States.
Executive MANSION
/ WASHINGTON, JUNE 30, 1852.
SIR | received last evening" with unfeigned regret,
your letter of the 2sth instant rendering your resignation
as Secretary of the Navy Our official intercourse has
been intimate and entirely harmonious that it
like parting with of my family to lose you from
the council board and quite that every member
of the Cabinet will share with me in this feeling.
owe you many thanks for the able, faithful and i'm
partial in which you have administered your De-
partment and take this occasion to say that your Of
fetal conduct has at all times met my entire approval
appreciate most fully the high of delicacy and
propriety your part which induces you to separate
from the Administration at this time, lest it might be
barrassed by your connection with it in the coming
test. cannot regret the which compels you to
this act however may regret the act itself 1t would
have been gratifying to if the constitutional advisers
with whom l commenced my Administration, and who
have acted cordially together, could have remained
unit in person and sentiment until its close But fate
and the sovereign people have ordered otherwise yield
to the necessity of the case and SHALL but not without
great reluctance comply with your request by accepting
your resignation find to sup
ply your place.
Hoping that the country may appreciate your merits
as have done, and reward you accordingly | remain
your sincere friend MILLARD FILLMORE.
Hon. W. A. GRAHAM,
Secretary of the Navy.