Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-02-03


Of the Rates over the mountains in III.
new iyaem, now propoted to be repealed
this is not the cafe the courts in the ieve
raj .aates are held by different Judges
This had eyer appeared 10 him radica
and vital failure iii the new iyfem; il
deprives the judges Of the opportunity O
a full knowledge Of local laws and ufages
and deftreys the poaibility Of uniformity
it is ALTO main artery Of healthfu! Cir
cu'stion in the body polite. In giving
4 satisfactory administration Of govern.
ment overs country Of thi, Wait extent,
the grea, obiea mutt be to avoid the ne.
cetiify Of dragging the people from the
remote extremes, the diAance of thoufand.
of miles, to the feat OF our government.
or far from their homes, where they can
not have the ufual advantages in courts OF
juaice. While two of the judge, Of the
fupreme court held court III eseh fate,
this was almof entirely avoided, excep,
in Gome of the largeA aates. The fuits
were rarely determined at the 6ra court !;
a: the lecond court the judges were conf
dered as bringing the ienfe Of the iupreme
court on the iubjea; it leemed to give.
as satisfactory coucluhon to the buliaefs
as if the parties had been themielyes be.
fore the iuprene court. Though gentle
men all appear 10 fubmit to the force o!
this argument, yet they fuppole they de-
feat it by the vague and general dec!an,a-
ton that experience has proved it to be
irnpratticable that we fhouId have no
more venerable judges; thar men mult
he appointed for their agility rather than
thei: wildom, &c. He ayerred experience
had determined no fuch thing very We
nerable judges had gone through that du.
ty frog, the beginning of the government,
without any apparent injury to their con-
ltitutiens, with few reGsnations as or
dinariiy take place among fate judges,
and in fat with leis bodily labor than j,
required OF many members OF congreis.
for much fmai!er compensation he tho
had proved that men equal te
the labor, and AZ" we'll fitted for the Of.
fee might be found, rather than give ny
70 iadiipenGble proyiGon, Especially as
under the preient motion additional pro-
viion may be made to rerder fyRcn.
more practicable and lefs laborious. The
change that had been made ~as, no doubt
a great relief to the judges; bot We have
oIhe. and more numerous conftituenrs
whole relief mutt aifo be attended to.
z. Another Grong poin, in the com.
parat've view Of the two iyfem. 10, thtt
the new law, now rropofed to be repeal
&c, attempts to draw off more buiine!s
from the &ate courts to the federal courts.
When gentlemen talk Of expediency may
they not be aked, what is the expedi.
ency Of that mcclure i! Will it max.
mere convenient aid complete organize.
ton! When they talk OF carrying jul.
tic. to the door OF every man, may they
not Be aked whether thar 10 mcn pei.
fsttly carrying juitice to the door Of
every mxn His fi'ustion in the former
part Of the debate was iuch, thar his duty
would not permi. him TO take notes OF
what wa, then faid, but if he hid tie
arguments of gentlemen on this head be-
fore him, he lhould be pleafed in apply.
iag ii to every one Of them to Zee how
they would appear to defeat themiel,es
BY the application Of this principle. This,
il!d he, goes directly to the great dcfeet
in the theory Of federal government,
which has at all times given uneafy ar-
prehenGons to its be4 friends refpetiing
The 6nal faccefs Of this vaf and berevo.
lent experiment in government. The
idca Of continent uniting under &c.
neral government, which hould iettle &c.
neral regulations, and do away the moN
common cauies of wsr, is no. a though,
. much out of the ordinary fabjetts Of
rejection IS to require any inventive or
genius to call it into view. 1t
10 readily conceived that the eaafern con.
tinent, a. we'll as the wefern, might
have often reflected on the pratticsbiiity
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