Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1801-1806, 1802-06-12
" In his feeond tpeech he fays

Before then that you violate
| that independence Cof the judges l.
Pauie--there are fate fovereignties, as
well as the fovereignty OF the general
government. There are cafes-too
many cafes--in which the intcrch Of
one is not confdered as the intereit OF
the other. Should thefe conA6t--if
1.-THE Judi ciary be gone, the queition is
no longer Of law, but of force. This
lis ltate of things which no honeIt &
wife man can view without horror"
&C But what, ak, will be the litu-
alton of thefe itates organized as they
now are) if by the difiolution of our
national compact they be left to them
felves? What is the probable refult |?
We fhall either be the victims of TO-
reign intrigue, and fplit into factions,
fall under the domination of a foreign
power, or ene after the mifery and
torment of civil war, become the fub-
jeefs of an ufurping military depot.
What but this compact! What but
this fpecifc part Of it, can fave us from
rain The judicial power that for
trefs of the contribution, is now 10 be
overturned"
Again
Z" declare to you, that if you Iofe
this charter, never no never will
you get another. We are now perhaps
arrived at the parting point. Here,
even here, we Rand on the brink of
fate. Pauie-Paufe--For Heavens
fake paufe!r'
Such are few ofthe many mena-
ceS hurled over the heads of the nation
by CoverneW Morris, on this memo
rable occalion. They amount to the
declaration, " | and my friends will
make the contribution mean what we
pleafe, and unlefs our con(tru 1ion is
accepted, the United States fhall be
fhaken to their centre, political chaos
lhall return, and " ravaged towns" &
bleeding wounds" fhall expiate your
crime"
But the Ajax Talemon* was only
the pioneer of party. Others, more
difiinguiihed for talents, and not lefs
diltinguiihed by zeal, brought up the
rear. Among thefe food James II.
Bayard, unrivalled in hardihood of az
fertion, and in giving the mott I'm.
limited expreiiion to federal terrors.
This man, 10 iignalized in antecedent
congreiies, for bold violation of me
contribution, who not only brought
forward fedition laws, bat infulted
ed with unfeeling arrogance their un.
happy victims, now, for the firf fine.
itood, with gigantic bulk, the mighty
champion Of the charter of our rights!
Read his own words -
We kneH better. fr, the characters who
wefc 70 tuec'ed us. and we knew ths, nothing
was hertd IN the eyes of ,ohdcls. No. fir.
never bad thought that any thing belonging
10 tie federal government was holy in the ewes Of
tho'c gentlemen. Icould never, therefore. lima.
g'ns that isottsary could he built up which
would not be violated. believe thele ccn,lc-
men regard public opinion becauie their power
depends upon it. but believe they refpeea 60
exiting eaablilhmen, or the government, ana if
public opinion could be bro't to fnpport them.
have no doubt they would annihiate the
WHOLE"
M Again
The fears which chen felt, have no,
been difPelled bot multiplied by wha, have
lince ieen. lkoow nothiog which j, to be Al.
lowed to Rand. obierve the infiitutions Of the
government falling around ne, and where the
work OF deRruetion is TO end God alone know,.
We diEharged ocr copfeiences in effsbliih;np =
judicial fyRem. which now exias. and il will he
orthofc who nov hold the power Of the ,overn.
nent to snfwer for fhe abolition of IL. which
tAsy at prefent mediate. We are told. ,h,, our
ave was asainR the ienfe of the nation. Let me
tell thoie gentlemen, they are deceived. when
IN .sty 10 Gbe dt~s~eia,ieu, Of M,. Nor.
RS er.fr~l Mssr. after espe6ns f5s vislsfisu of
fbf essrfEfiss !r fbs federal s5 Of fb< Loa Cor.