Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-03-13

exit without an efficient judiciary. It's
the judiciary which applies the law ard
enables the executive to carry it into ef-
fea. Leave yoar laws to the judiciaries
Sof the aa.es TO execute and my word
for il in ten years you have neither law
sny contribution. Is your Judiciary 70
coRly that you will not fupport it, Why
then lay out 70 much money Upon the other
branches OF your government! l beg thar
81 will BE recolleeted tina, if your judiciary
colts you thoufands of dollars, your legif-
lature COTS you tuDdtcds OF thoul nds,
and your executive millions.
An OBJECTION has been derived from
the paucity OF cauies in the federal courts,
and the OBJECTION has been magnised BY
the allegation, that tho number had been
annually decreaGng. The fatss admitted,
draw very diftren, Inference from my
opponents. In my opinion they furnilh the
froageG proof Of the deteas of the former
eGablilhment, and Of the neceflity OF re-
form. ! have no doubt, nay, | know it
to be fact, that many tutors were d.
verted from, ,hoie tribunals by the futtu-
atoms to which they were fubjecs. Allow
me, however, to take fome notice of the
facts. They are founded upon the PreGdcn-
tial document, No. 8. Taking the facts
as there tated, they allow upwards Of 50
faits annually fer each court, when it is
conhdered that the{e caufes mua each
exceed the value of 500 dolls. and that
they were generally Irrigated cafes, 90
not conceive, that there is much ground
to affirm, that the courts were without
buGnefs. But, FIR, l mutt be executed fer
faving, pay little refped TO this dccu
ment. 1t has been (hewn by others in
ieyeral points to be erroneous, and from
my own knowledge, know it to be In
correct. What right had the Preident 10
call upon the clerks to furn'ih him with a
lia O! the fuits which had been brought,
or were depending in their reflective
courts? Had this been directed by Con-
ercfs, or was there any'money appropria-
ted 20 ply the expenie : Is there any law
which made it the duty of the clerks to
obey the order of the executive? Are the
clerks relponnble fer reiufng the lifts, or
for making falle OF detective returns Do
we know any thing about the authentici-
! ~ of tie certificates made by the clerks !!
And are we not now aiming amortal blow
at one branch Of the government, upon the
credit and the mitigation Of another and a.
rival department! Yes, fir, FAY at the
mitigation of the PRECEDENT, for / confider
this buGnefs wholly as Prudential mea-
lure. This document and his meilage,
thew that it originated with him; con.
fider it as now profecu.ed by him, and |
believe, that he has the power to srrelt
its progreis, or to accomplish its completi-
on. 1repeat that it is his meafure. !
hold him reiponGble for it; and trua in
God that the tine will come, when he
will be called upon to aalwer tor it as his
at. And trult the time will arrive,
when he will hear us fpeaking upon the.fub-
jeet more efeetually.
1t has been ftated as the reproach, fir,
of the bill of the lat ielion, that it was
made by party at the moment when
they were fsnfbIe that their power was
expiring and paaing into other hands.
It is enough for me, that the full and
legitimat epower exifed. The remnant
was plenary and efficient. And it was
oar duty to employ it according to our
judgments and confcienees for the good
of the country. We thought the bill
falutary meafure, and there was no obi
CATION upon US to leave it as work for
our fuccedors. Nay, fir, I have no he |
Gtation in avowing, that I had no conf
dence in the perfons who were to follow
us. And | was the more anxious while
we had the means to accomplish work
which | believed they would NOT do, and
which l fncerely thought, would con.
tribute to the fafety of the nation by
giving arength and fupport to the con-
ltitution through the form to which it
was likely to be expoied. The fears,