Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1802-04-26

mandamus directed to the Prelident himlelf or
the Secretary of State, to thew caufe why thcfe
cOmmiaions were withheld from their legal
owners. With this infult, as he felt il, from
the Circuit Court, and profped If being called
himlelf, or his fri officer Of fate, before the
Supreme Court, he undoubtedly became anx.
ious TO get rid of the fhackles which be faw the
independence of the Judiciary would be always
throwing in his way but how this could be
effected with the Leaf alarm to the people was,
at hrf, puzzling problem TO the pbilojSpber--
he knew the men filling the Courts TO be per-
ions of integrity and hrmnels he could not
remove them, as he has done the Collectors,
Marlhals and Attornies, and put his creatures
in thsir place-To impeach them, in cafe Of
opPoGtion to his will, prefented nnumerable
hazards /; tho he might think it probable he
lhould find friends enough in the Houfe to vote
down an impeachment, which required but
bare majority of members yet two thirds Of
the Senate mutt agree to convid the perlons
impeached and there was, and, for two or
three years to come, might not be more than
fmall majority Of Sood tboroagb going .3aeobias
in the Senate and as he faid in his Brhop ler
ter, hse .Tudge5 DAFT die Hence viewing his
fituation all round, he faw the independence of
the Judiciary, as a lpeaor ghof, continually
fronting him in his plans--What was left for
the PRECEDENT to do to get clear of the Courts,
but to conjure up lome tale or other, with
plaulible covering, and fer Congrels TO workto
def them, or part Of them and in fuch a
manner as would imply power in Congreis,
iome time or other, to render the whole Judicial
ry dependent on the Legislature? OF fuccels,
in this plan, he had no doubt, becauie he knew
bis men and under what cloak could iuch
Rep as this be better concealed than that of
economy and a rsbe1I9f taxeJ ? If am right in my
conf Cures. fir, we have nov discovered the
true motives Of this anxiety in the Prelident
and his friends to deRroy the independence of
the Judiciary; and that economy and faving
eSPence to the people are nothing more than
ofenible motives. TIE plan has lucceeded-
the conititutiona independence Of the Judiciary
IS compleatly iubverted, and az this event the
republicans are ejoicing-they profefs to fee
nc danger 10 t. How much they relerRble the
lfupid mob of France who continued to ref
pond to their demagoguss the hezcbsrous CRY
OF liberty, equality, and TIE rigbfS Of man, till
Bonaparte clapped halter about their necks
| and hulhed them into everlating lilence. But
| truR in Heaven that our fitdation is not yet
| 70 deplorable as thers-it is not too late for
| the people Of this country to arret the evil
they mutt abandon their attachment to Dema.
gogues, thofe blind leaders to dearuaon-
they mutt love truth and hear it with as much
peaflre as they have hattery MoR Of the
republicans are not 70 much 10 blame as we
imagine-there is an apology for them-thev
are ignorant-they know very little on the
lubjea Of government generally-and efs of
the admni1ration Of any one lyfem in detail
There is fcarciry Of fa6ts il their memories
their minds are adumbrayed with prejudice, like
old garret windows with cobw~5s-Loqic or
any thing like confident train Of political
reaioning can no more be conceived in the for
mer, than clear rays of the fun can pats thro'
The latter.
When Congrefs convened laf' winter, the
republicans were all ageg for lornething, they
knew not what; but every one was on the look
out at lAIt along came the GeneOas'5 Report;
this they TUNED over and over a thouGa nd
times, but 20 one could tell whar it was, tho
all agreed its&yas fomething entirely new they
had never f4en the like before Gall atm, they
laid, NUT lie terrible knowing man He had
made aRonilhing diicoveries, and was good
enough to communicate them to the people to
illuminate their minds-furely every body will
now call him their friend. Exulting in his genius
& goodnefs,the began to make companions be-
tween him & his protectors, who, they aferted,
had never let the people knowany thin about the
itage of the Finances and concluded, ration
ally enough according 70 the furniture Of their
o7vn minds that no one before the great and
good Glllatin, was ever able 10 do It. Several
days pafed, in this derium Of fcience till cid
Dodor Neatfoot a genuine ari(focrat, fell in
their company,and hearing them fwagger away
with their newly acquired tical terms, he ex-
preGed deire to know what had elated them
TO fueh an extraordiaary degree. One Of their
leaders then informed him what learned book,
Gallatiu had Jet ont about tbs faes5, debt5, recon
ues, Failtasats, and all tbat.-Ee was certain the
Secretary mutt be the greatef and bet man in
the world, except Mr.. Jeferfou, who made the
Secretary-If Gallatin had not been Secretary
the people might have paHed another dozen
years and know nothing of their own affairs.
The Doctor, at hra, laughed at them, thinking
- I'M nofible any renDle fhouId be "a iororant