NJ Al. B. KENNEDY.
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When this gentleman got up on the first dav


OF our Court and attempted a reply to the
speech OF Mr.. AyreS, and when he found that
his heart had entirely failed him, it was a rich


treat and source of great merriment to the


spectators, to see him Jump entirely over the


questions al issue, and commence arguing that
lnasmuch as Mr.. Ayres was not runnjnu for
the Senate, that therefore he had no rirht to


Scrutlnlze his acts before the public. Drown.
ing men will catch at straws however. e. as Mr.


Kennedy was in the last agonies of political
death, 1t was TO he presumed he would seize
hold OF any and every thing to keep his head
above the surface of the boiling cauIdron into
which he bad been thrown. Never do sce
recoIlect IN our lifetime, of having heard a
man, other than on this occasion, contend that
a VOTER had no right to examine his course
while IN public life, and he at the same time
asking the suflrages of the people.


MaJ. Kennedy, will you be so kind and con-
descending, inasmuch as you have attempted
o enlist sympathy in your behalf because Mr.
Ayfes has held you up TO the public gaze. as
o give your reasons for meeting that gentle
nen on the stump in the year IS4l, when HE
vas candidate and you were not. You will :
ecoIlect, sir, that the opponents of Mr. Ayres I
Herring and WadIington) were on the spot q
the time, bat they were considered by Won |
two small swiveIs not capable of making '
cry loud reports, and you mounted yourself /
1on the stand as the eighteen FOUNDER of the |
'pudiating party. This was at Shongaio, sir. S
I'd although you left the field bleeding and e,