Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1802-02-16 00:00:00, page 1

Senate of the United States.
Wednesday, Jan. 18.
Mr. MASON'S SPEECH,
Continued from our lafl.
Notwithstanding the remarks of gentle
men, I am inclined to think these ideas of
the extreme independence of the judges, anc
the limited powers of the legislature, arc
not very old, but that they are of modern
origin, and have grown up since the last del
Son of Congress. For in the law passed
hit fellion, that very law which is now pro
posed to repeal, is to be found a p'ra&ical
cxpofition in dire& hoflility with the princi
ple now contended for, which does not be
tray that facted regard for the office oft
judge, that is, on this occasion profeffed : in
that very law will' be found a clause which
aboli(hed- two diftri& courts. The 241!
Sec. fays expressly “ the diftrid courts oi
Kentucky and Tennefle (ball be and hereby
are abolished-" Will gentlemen tell this
House how this exprefe provision came int<
the a& of the last session; and will they fay
that though they voted for this Ikw, yet no
power exists in the legislature to abolish a
court. It is true, that it has been said, that
though you put down two didrift courts,
you promoted the officers by entreafing their
Hilaries and making them judges of the cir
ctrit courts, but the fa& is, you have abolifh
el their offices,; and they are no longer bi
the diftrias of Kentucky and Tenneflee ,
and they are to every purpose, whatever
may be their name, in reality circuit judges.
Though you have not leUened their (diaries,
you have deprived them of their offices.
However, therefore, gentlemen may calcu
late as to the benefit or injury done theft
two judges, the principle is not afFe&ed by
,Vany result—their offices are gone.
" ft is not enough to fay, that though you
dettroyed their offices you offered them others
with higher salaries. * You took away from
tueawin express terms, thtii offices by aboh
FOREIGN BILLS.
8111 son London : 30 days, : (Far Cajh) ^ pr. cent. dis.
do. do. : : : 00 days, : : do. : 3 pr. ct. dis.
Ida. do. : : : 90 days, : : do. : g| a 4 do. do.
Bills on Ham'borg, payable in London, at 60 days, : : uv. do. do. do.
do. on Amsterdam, payable in do. 60 days, : : , do. do. do.
Crren prices! cf per from to
D. C. D. C
JOSHES, Pot, iftfert, T. 120 o 126 6t
, Pearl -- 140 0 146 c
Allum, C. 8 c 9c
Anchors, ffv 0 12 0 c
Bread, Ship C. 450 65c
Butter It) 0 14 nit
Beef, common B. 850 0 0
mess — II 0 II U
Bean, white bu. 125 1 25
Brandy, Spanish 4thpr. G. 150 155
, Naples 4tb pr. -- 140 145
Barley b^. 1 0 II (
Brinittone, C. 3 0 4 c
Brimstone, gpll, C. 450 5 c
Corn, Indian - 007 075
Rye - 090 0 c
Cassia lb 00 oße
Cloves -1 66 2lt
Coffee. -^ 0 18 c 2c
Cheese, American .- 0 6 014
Cotton,foreign farce -- 040 045
, American — 026 028
Cordage, American C. 14 50 15 c
, Foreign, — 12 0 13 c
Chocolate, common lb 020 0.20
, belt ^.2&1 - 029 03.
Candles, mould A - 0 2 ° ° 2 '
, dipt -- 017 017
Co^% foreign Ch. 14 ° ! 4 c
, American #%-- 0 0 0 c
Copperas, C. 35° 4 c
Cloth, Tow yd. 0 15 0 17
Duck, Russia, ifquat. Bt. 16 0 18 0
Congees of tbe United States.
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ithing the offices. —You had Gripped them 01
their offices, you had robbed them of their
vested right, and then to make friends, offer
ed them a compensation ; but whether the
compensation thus offered for the depriva
tion they had fuffered, was really equivalent
to their iof% is a mere matter of calculation,
and does not affect the constitutional princi
ple. It is ' proper however to observe, that
hey were no parties to the proposed com
promise, and that indeed they had no choice
left them. They were obliged to accept ot
what you offered them or have nothing. Il
hev did not agree to become judges of the
newly organized circuit courts, they could
not remain judges of the di(tri& courts, for
these courts were absolutely and completely
abolished.
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
Duck, Ravens -- io 50 12 c
Flaxfecd, rough bu. 1 c I ic
Fith, Merchant, C. 4 c 425
,W. India mark. -- 325 375
Scale — 250 275
Salmon none B. 10 ° 0 <
Mackerel -- 75° 8 c
clour, super. frefh — 75° 8'
, fine —7 0 <7 5°
, middlings - 650 7 °
, country C. 3 0 35°
Fuftick T. 45 0 0 c
. , Bristol cr.ioby 8, bx. 15 0 15 5c
9 b Y7, — 14 0 14 5 c
Bby 6, -- II 0 II 5c
„) Hamburg 10 by 8, -- 13 0 0 c
' 7by 9, -- 13 0 0 c
Sun Powder tb 0 5° °55
Geneva, Holland \ft pr G. I 25 1 25
, Americanize — 090 o<
Hoops, hhd. 12 ft. M. 20 0 25 6
Hogs Lard ffi 012 0 14
Iron, Philadelphia T. 140 0 0 c
, Russia -- 120 0 125 c
, Swedes — 13° 0 0 c
Logwood T. 40 0 45'
Lead, white, grx in di! C. 0 0 16 <
, dry -- 14 0 14 5
, red -- 850 0 c
, Iheet -- 10 50 0 <
Lumber, boards clear M. 17 0 18 c
, , merch. -- 12 0 13 c
Tingles' — 15° 225
Were I, Mr. President, to make a calcu
lation on the comparative increase of duties
and additional salary, in the case of one ot
those gentlemen (Judge Innes, of Kentucky)
I should have no hesitation to fay, that the
bargain which has been made without his
consent, and without his being a party to it.
Is a very bad one for him. Knowing too
his particular situation, I am persuaded that
if the law had left him any election between
his former and new situation, he would have
preferred remaining where he was, and
without a moment's hefrtation,he would have
rejected your proffered promotion, as it is
called. This gentleman resides within a very
few miles of Frankfort, where as a diftri&
judge of Kentucky he held his coufy , At
tached to domeflic life, and enjoying all its
felicities, engaged in and pleated with agri
cultural pursuits, he was never finder the
neceflity even during the sessions of the
courts, to sleep out of his owa bed one night,
or to be separated a single day from his
family. He could give every direction for
the management of his farm and return ear
ly enough in the evening to fee whether his
orders were executed.
How is he situated under the change which
has been forced upon him r Instead of at
tending one court almdft at his door, your
late law requires him to attend four. The
u eareit at Baird's town, fitty or sixty miles
CTbolefale prices Current, at portfmoutb, Seto^ampgiire.
CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED, ON SATURDAYS,
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1802.
dourfe of exchange, at Cotton
, m <<<fcty^i
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Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
Demons frefe bx. 7 ° 8 c
Lime, half hhd. 1 75 2 '
Leather, Sbal, dried, lb 020 0 c
Violates G. 040 0 5'
Nutmegs It ) 5 ° 55'
Nail Rods fcarre T. 8 0 0 c
r4 d l cut M. 036 0 c
/i| 6df,' - 070 072
^J 6d, wrought -- 117 0 0
< I rod, do. infpefted-- 175 183
Z 1 2nd, do. do. — 240 25c
(Sheathing, cut C. 12 50 0 (
-^ (Liver B. 14 0 15 c
5 ^Linfeed G. 110 115
Pepper lb 0 3 0 ° 3 c
Pork, belt pieces B. 16 0 18 <
, common -- 13 0 z s'
Peas \ bu. I 25 I 5c
Pimento lb ° '* 0 2<
Pitch, B. 6 0 0 <
Paper, Sheathing C. 375 4 <
Redwood T. 55 0 60 c
Raifms/%0 cafle 6 75 7c
turn, Jamaica G. t 4 117
, Windward 3/,,.— 090 095
Rice Jcarce C. 6 0 0 <
lofin scarce B. 350 45^
Soap, white ffi 014 oit
, brown -- 010 012
, cattle -- 017 02c
Sugar, Havannah C. 18 0 19 <
, Eart-India -- 12 0 13 c
, Welt-India — 9 ° ^ K>
from home. You oblige him to travel
through dreary and inhospitable regions tc
the North-Western territory, something
Ihort of an hundred miles ; and much great
er distances to, and through Rill worse coun
tries, Knoxville, and Nalhville, in Tennefle
In going from one to the other of those lad
mentioned places, he will have to pals
through the country of the Cherokee In
dians nearly one hundred miles over the
Cumberland mountains, where he will be
exposed to every inclemency of weather,
without a shelter to retire to, for there is not
a house or a hut in the whole journey ; a
journey in which all travellers are obliged at
all times, and of unavoidable necessity, to
deep one night at lead, and from the fall of^
rains, and rife of water courses, often many
nights without a roof to cover them from
the beating of the florm ; and moreover
where they are liable at every step to be rob
bed by the Indians, as I myfelf experienced
passing through that wilderness. Can it be
fuppoied, that the five hundred dollars added
co the salary of judge Innes, should by a per
son situated as he was, be deemed a fufficient
cornpenfation for the additional duties, the
toils, the dangers and the deprivations, to
whichrfhat law fubje&ed him ?' In contin
uing to serve his country, 1 am fare he mull
have been influenced more by a sense of duty,
than a regard to private interest ; or, a be
lief, that the change was in any refped ad
vantageous to him.
By the 7th Section of the law of the last
feflion, which transforms the diltridt inic
circuit courts, which melts down thejudges,
and recoins them, it is enacted, That then
thall be a circuit court composed of one
new circuit judge and two old diftri& judges, 1
to be called the 6th circuit. Have you notl
then eltablilhed a new office by the destruc
tion of the old one ? Have you not done
more ? Have you. not violated the constitu
tion by declaring by law, who shall fill this
new office ; though the constitution declares,
Art. 2d Sett. 2d, That the president Ihah
nominate, and by and with the advice an<
content ot the Senate shall appoint allofficer'
which shall be established by law.
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Bills on Baltimore, 30 days light, (For Cash) 1 per cent dis.
do. Philadelphia, • : : do. : do. do. do.
do. New-York, : : do. : do. do. do.
d “- Ph N^'^r') 6o davs, : do. 2 do.
New-York, j
N. B. Bills at shorter fight, proportionably higher.
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Current prices of per from to
Di C. D. Ci
Starch, Poland lb ° 22 ° 22
, American -- o i2| 017
Sugar, Loaf ft> 0 27 0 28
Salt, St. Übes force H. 650 7 0
, Turk's Island -- 650 7 0
, Liverpool -- 45° 5 0
, Rock -7 0 750
Steel, German lb 0 ! 5 ° £ 7
, English — 016 018
Salt Petre, rough -- 020 +0 0
Shot C. 10 0 to 0
fW.O.hhd. . M. 24 0 26 0
| do. do. heading -- 26 0 28 o
> J W. O. bbl. -- 10 0 ^ $
^1 R. O. hhd. — Io 0 11 7
do. Shooks 0 66 oco
(W. O. do. I 20 T oo
Tin in Ihects bx. 18 0 20 o
Tar B. 3 0 350
Turpentine -- 4 0 450
Tea, Hyfon lb 112 117
, Souchong -- 080 082
, Bohea — 038 042
Tobacco, JamesßiVer C. 7 0 0 0
, Georgia -- 55° 6 0
Twine, sewing doz. 550 os
, seine — 5° 55°
. ^Madeira G. 217 283
| Lisbon . —1 20 130
Z { Sherry, scarce — 146 150
= I Malaga q.c. 29 0 30 0
> (Red Port farce — 167 Retail
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Where were these guardians of the
Constitution—these vigilant sentinels of
jur rights and liberties, when this law
palled ? Were they asleep upon their poss ?
Where was the gentlemen from New-York,
who had on this debate made such a noble
;rtand in favor of a violated Conllituiion ?
, Where was the Ajax Talemm of his party,
.or to use his own more correa expreflion,
: the faHion to which he belonged r Where
>was the hero of his seven fold shield ? Not
,of bull's hide—but of brass—prepared to
t prevent or to punilh this Trojan rape which
the now fees meditated upon the conftitutiorl
sos his country by a wicked faction r Where
ywas Hercules that he did not crush this
fden of robbers that broke into the fan avary
/of the constitution r Was he forgetful of
fliis duty f Was his nerves unstrung r Or
r was he the very leader of the band that broke
.down these constitutional ramparts ?
I I ihall now, fir, trouble you with a few
: remarks on the expediency of repealing this
Ilaw. It has been said, that there is nothing
peculiarly diffguftful in this law ; that there
nas been no public clamour excited against
it; that it was ena&ed with solemnity on
calm and deliberate refle&ion ; and that
time has not been yet given to ted it by ex
perience..
As no member, who has taken part in the
debate, was a member of this body, when
the law passed. I will something ot its hif
tory. lam not disposed to excite the fenfi+
oihty ot gentlemen by any remarks which
I ihall make, or to call up unpleasant re
colle&ions of past feenes. But when I hear
it said that this law was passed with calm
ness after mature reflection, and that we are
now in a fit ot paflion going to dp what was
thus wifely done, 1 think it necessary ffiat
he public should have a correa Ratement.
It is true that under the last adminidra
:ion, when there existed (what 1 hope will
never in an equal degree exili.again) an im
moderate thirlt for executive patronage, a
proportion was made to eftablith a new ju
liciary system ; a. fyltem worse than the
present ; as it proposed, according to my
recollection, 38 judges instead of 10. 1 hit
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