Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-06-28
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:. ,sndlr. A great many fendble fair min
ded citizens 30 in their condolences believe
thar tie aa referred TO is violation Of
onr iacred national magma charta. That
the Jacobins are convinc. ID Of this IS very
evident. The feeblenels of their argu-
mcn,s when compared with ,tofe Of Nor.
ris, !, M,fon, Tracy, in the Senate, and
Bayard, Grifwold, Dana, Rutlrdge, Hemp
hill and Others, in the houfs, is a COOL proof
Of this inward conviction oftheit fouls.
They were Glenced, COMPOUNDED, ard made
contemplate in the eyes of their own par
ty. The Jacobins pronounced the ape
poin,ment Of the Chief Juiice Jay to b:
unconstitutional, though not a word in the
Conftitltion can be (hewn to forbidit. To
difmifs the Judges is no violation, the
fame men FAY, though words 70 exprcfs do
require tina. the Judges hold their Offices
during good behavior. Ought not the
ruling party then to expect great numbers
to be in doubt as much Of their iincerity
as of their confiRency. Another proofs,
they dare not lie. the conaisa,ionality Of
the Repeating Law become qacaion.
Already we hear the excellent and able
Chief lattice Marlhall is to be got rid of
by an embany to London, and Gov. Nc
Kean i; to bechiefjuRice Of the U. States.
The report may hot prove true, but its cur
rcncy hews the fate Of the party opinion
on this fabjett. il '... .".7. ~
1t may indeed be faid with truth, that
no other great constitutional msalure has
ever yet paaed, and none ought to pats a.
gainlt 70 vaR preponderance OF public o.
pinion or if the Democrats choofe TO
quarrel with the word trep,udEranee, let
it be Coftened. There isa great weight OF
opinion againa the repeal. Some OF the
ablea and mott candid men of our coun-
try condemn i, on constitutional grounds.
We 90 further, we believe hat no great
conGi.u,ional mealure would be psiled in
Great Britain in cafe offo great divition
of ieneimens in the nation, and 70 much
refpettab;lity on the Gde Of the dihenti'
ents. We call upon rejecting pcI'ons to
fate any inaance where. even in that mo-
narchy. the public fentimen, mo matter in
the ar sument, whether of a ma jority or
mott has been 70 totally difresarded. Yet
thcfe are the worfhippers of the people
the anxious defenders Of their Conititu-
ton!
cd. The tendency of their meafurcs.
admitting, for argument fake, Congrefs
had right TO psfi them, is manifealy and
undeniably fubverlive of the principal le-
curities Of the Contribution.
The Judges will be, in point Of fact,
dependent for Office on tn: will OF ma
jority in Consres. To get rid Of Judges,
they did not like tn. Marylandcrs, actual
ly repeal their Judicial law, and then, at
ter thus diiplacing their federal Judges, in
the very fame felton, of the State Legilla-
ture, re. enact the law and fill the bench
with Democrats.
The f:yants in kitchen are not more
bafely dependent than our Judges arc
made by the repeating law, 10 far as the
precarioufnels Of the bread of Office creates
dependence. What fort of RICH. or Ii
:berty can remain after all judicial iecurity
for it is gone nobody can tell US. For
the bea things, when perverted, become
the WORT; and judiciary, in the difpofal
of a faction, is, perhaps, rather worfe than
the iuRice Of the Creek Indians, or even
Of Rhode Iland. ,-
Again, the difplating of FEDERAL Off,
GERS merely becaulc they were Fedcralias,
is change in the principle of executing
our government, tina, really, in effect, chan
ges its very natprc. " The government
that is be( administered is bef," is an
| axiom. Now administering the federal
government in this new way is total
| change of its character. Officers thus fer
vilely dependent en- the PRECEDENT are no
longer the public fervants, they are his
py1aual dependents, his clients, in the
| lenfe that the great men of Rome held a
| rabble army.--1t is falfo obvious,
ttha. This for Of dependence is of all things
the mott deltruetiveof the morals of the
citizens, and initead of referring harmony