Kentucky Gazette

COMMUNICATED.
MR. BRADFORD:

You will oblige a subscriber by republishing the enclosed. I cut it from the Louisville Advertiser of May the 15th 1835. It will be perceived not only that Messrs. Wickliffe Daniel &c. had promised a just estimate of Mr. Kendall's talents and virtues, but, that Mr. Penn's prophecy has been fulfilled to the letter.

August 27th 1836.
A.

The opposition press, with some few honorable exceptions, is pouring the vials of its wrath upon Mr. Kendall. This was to have been expected for several reasons. The recent overwhelming defeats of the whigs have put them in a bad humor. Second. They know and dread the talents of the Postmaster General. Third. The Post Office Department has afforded them a theme for vituperating the Administration, which they feel confident will shortly be taken from them. They are well aware that Mr. Kendall will soon place it in a situation which will render their attacks harmless and ridiculous.

But, while the whig press is thus endeavoring to blast the character of Mr. Kendall, we recommend the perusal of the following letter to all who are disposed to judge justly. Many of those who are now bitterly reviling him, would be proud to produce a similar attestation of their talents and moral worth:

TO GEN. JACKSON—
Sir: The underwritten, your friends, take the liberty of expressing, in a manner which cannot admit of any evasion hereafter on their part, their confirmed and sincere opinion of the worth of Amos Kendall, of Kentucky, both as a citizen and a public champion of the purity, simplicity, and republican features of our Constitution and Government. His merits, they confidently trust, are not altogether unknown to yourself. Kentucky, the better half of Kentucky, know and are yet ready to acknowledge them; and the republican party in every part of the United States, which has found in you a leader in every way worthy of itself, is not unwilling to recognize the claims of Mr. Kendall to some of the rewards which a grateful country likes to bestow upon her faithful sons. The five letters and their effects can never be forgotten by those who lost, or by those who gained by them. Mr. Kendall, we all believe, and some of us have had an acquaintance with him which authorizes us to say, we know, is a man of exemplary purity in his private life, and we challenge the annals of party warfare for the instance of a man, conducting so efficient a public journal as he has done, who has maintained a character more highly distinguished for probity, consistency, and a uniform devotion to the best interests of his country, than himself.

The underwritten would be highly gratified if the President elect would appoint Mr. Kendall Auditor, in case of a vacancy.

Signed
T. P. MOORE,
H. DANIEL,
C. A. WICKLIFFE,
THO. CHILTON,
JOEL YANCY.
ROB. MCHIATTON,
JOSEPH LECOMPTE,
JOHN ROWAN.
CHITTENDON LYON
R M. JOHNSON

The above is a true copy of the original on file in the office of the President's Private Secretary.
May, 23d, 1829.
ANDREW J. DONALSON.