Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-05-08

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contribution to juaify lis embrulng his {
Recaule lie thinks we then violated the
contribution, will he now murder 1T Sir,
i was by founding the alarm about nedl-
rated violations Of the contribution and
BY grol, INTERPRETATIONS OF eur inten-
tons, and reiterated charges OF not re-
freeing the contribution, that public OPT
Mon was violated, the public mind mil
led, and the administration of our go
yernment placed where it now is. But
almoa in the moment of changing, when
the preient Administration is in its grille,
it anumes the attitude of gladiator,
attacks the judiciary, violates the rights
OF the Judges, and iays to Us yoa (lttbf tx.
au5k. Sir, had we fet them the ex-
ample, it was bad one, and it does not
become them TO follow it but we never
gave any fnch examples, we always re.
vercnced the judiciary a, the bulwark of
the contribution, and coniidered the rights
of the judges as the rights Of all the peo-
pie of America. 1t isfaid by the gentle
man from Virginia, that our devotion to
the judiciary efablilhment makes US vince
at any attempt toGrip offome of its du-
perauous and expenivel trapPings, and that
we will not Fart with the corinthian and
compoGt pillars which have been added
for It's decoration.
Sir, the judiciary is the fabric ofthe
contribution, not Corinthian pillar, not
any ornament added by Congrels /; it is,
Sir, the grand Doric column one of the
three foundation pillars formed, not by
Congre(s, but by the people themfelves j;
it binds together the abutment, it is laid
in the foundations Of the fabric of our 60
vernment, and if you denolifh it the
grand arch will totter, and the whole
will be endangered. We are aked, by
the gentleman from Virginia, if the peo-
pie want judges TO protect ,hen' Yes,
Sir, in popular governments contribution
al checks are necenary fog their preferva-
ton; the people want to be protected
againf themielves; no man is 70 abfurd
as TO fuppofe the people collectively will
content to the profration of their liber-
ties; but if they be not hielded by fome
constitutional checks they will fufer them
to be deftroyed; to be defroyed by de-
magogues, who fitch the confidence of the
people by pretending to be their friends,
demagogues who, at the time they are
foothing and cajoling the people with
bland and captivating fpeeeheo are forg-
ing chains fo- them; demagogues who
carry daggers in their hearts, and feduc-
tive lm,les in their hypocr,tical faces
who are booming the people to defposifm,
when they protefs to be excluhveiy the
friends of the people; againf fuch defgns
and l1ch articles were our constitutional
checks made to prelerve the people of this
country. Will gentlemen look back to
the hifories of other countries, and then
tell US the people here have nothing TO
apprehend from themleives /? Who, Sir,
proved fatal to the Liberties Of Rome p
The courtier ofthe people one who pro-
fefed to be Sc the man of the pcop.e,''
who had willea away his fortune to the
people, and had expoied his will to the
public eye; man who, when a crown
was proaered TO him, fhrunk fron, the Of
fer, alsd aGettedly faid it did not come
from the people If was julius Calar who
proitrated che liberties Of Rome, and yet
Ceiar pfofeaed to be the friend of Rome,
to be in fact the peope. Who was it that
in England dearoyed the representative
government and concentrated all is pow
ers in his own hands One who filled
himfelf the man Of the people who was
plain, nay itudiouAy negligent of his
drels /; obtaining to call himielt Mitter,
it was plain and una1uming Oliver--OIi-
yer Cromwell, the friend of the people
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