Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-01-20

Jtb0tCtION VI CouAt WI A''' 'SA>'y 20
tenhve growing country, and carry law
and protection 10 every maa! This coun-
try.i. in a fngular condition, great
tract Of unfettIed lands is peopling with
rapidly, and numerous emigrasions IN
create our population ia, hey ond its ma
sural increaie; is it not Of importance,
that courts fhould be located among them,
/ early to correct the reitlels fpirit, which
I is ffeouent in new and fcatrered iettle-
ments /! And are not the emigrations CON-
| poied of luch as require the promPt aiis-
| lance Of the law, to preferve amcng them
| regularity? Puuilhmcnt, to US, aud all
good men ft,ould be Rrange work, but
| to prevent crimes, is the work of a God.
Geak to gentlemen, who have many OF
them sraced the judges bench, and ad-
dorned the proteGonal robe they have
worn, and am therefore no, obliged to be
particular that may be undertood; a
word to the wife viii be iafncicnt.-A
judiciary in national point of view is a5-
lolutely aeceiiary, and an exteniion of it
to every national rurpoie is equally ne
ceGary. To depend upon fate courts,
not under obligations, or amenable to
you, befdes having as much batineis al
iot,ed to them by the REFLECTIVE fate as
they can accomplish, and depending upon
Them ard not on US for exiRencc; will re-
quire only to be mentioned, to be explod-
ed. Locating your judges in various
parts of the country, by them promulgat-
ing the national laws, which it is we'll
known las been a fubiea of great difficult
ty, and giving them daily opportunity OF
mixing with people, not wei diipoted to
order and law; may prevent ditorders,
and Intersections, and fave millions OF
expence, which pecuniary faving will be
the leaf OF the important events airing
from ioch a fyaem.
But it will probably be faid, the
courts have not buGneis to employ them;
and TIE documents received from the
executive will be produced in evidence.
And it may further be laid, the prehdsns
has in his meaage, recommended a repeal
OF this law. The words Of the meliasc
are, "The judiciary iyaem Of the United
States, and ESPECIALLY that portion OF !, 1t
lately erected, will of ccurle preient itieit
- the contemplation of Congrefs; and
that they may be able to Judge OF the pro-
Dor ton which the inititurion bears to the
bufnefs it has to perform, hae cauied
to be procured from the feveral States and
now lay before Congrefs an exact aatement
of all the caufes decided fincc the frR eta.
blilhment Of the courts, and of thoie that
were depending when additional courts
and judges were brought into their
aid"
Is this a recommendation to repeal
suppole for argument fake it is. Let Us
Icok at this exast" fatemen:. - the
recapisulation, 10Th page of document 8,
Their appears to have been inaituted
sz7o fuiss, and pending when this court
went into operation, I539.-But on tur-
ther INFECTION, it will De found that
Maryland is entirely omitted, this omit
Gon is unaccountable, fince the means OF
knowledge were 70 rear at hand. no
:auies undecided in Tenneaee; l3s in
North-CaroIina, ard 53+ in Virginia are
omitted making in the whole an error
or or Goo caules. In addition to this
the number of fai,s il New York are not
ta,ed correctly by the fatement Of the
attorney when he made the return, and
not one is carried out as pending IN the
recapitulation and the return OF Malta
chufetts is incorrect on its face 10 that
nothing more than conjecture can be de-
rived from this "exaet" Abatement. The
prcfdent is ufaally more correct, and
how this peremptory language in the
meGage COMFORTS with the document,
every man can Zee for himfelf.-I am not
dilpoicd to attribute intentional error to
aoy man, much lefs to the executive;
hut in point of ufe the 9asement amounts