Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-05-01

r Is the fleet anchor which will enable us
ride out the tornado and the tempeit, and
that If we part from il there is no iafetl
left that it is the only thing which can
preierve US from thcrerilous lee ihore, the
rocks and the .quickfands where all other
| republics have periihed. The judiciary
IS the ballaa Of the national ihip-throw
| It overheard and fhe mutt upfet.
MIR. Giles begged leave to explain ;
Ihe faid the gentleman had not quoted his
arguments fairly he never held the ideas
afcribed to him; he certainly had not
faid the gentleman from South Carolina
wilhed en- former occaacrs to condde pow
er to the popular branch ofthe government;
the gentleman from S. Carolina, he be-
lieved never wilhed this or any other po-
pular branch Of government trutted with
power.
Mr.. r. faid on fubjed 70 momentous
as this he would not fruit TO his memory !;
that he had taken down the words Of the
gentleman from Virginia; he certainly
did not mean to mifreprelent him, and
was forty he had fuppofed he had not quot
ed him fairly. 1t has been further ialdby
this gentleman that as the judiciary was
efablilhed for the benefit of the people,
and is maintained by their money, the peo-
pie mulf wifhsit put down when the lproper
aafh'ority tells US il hiss no duties to per-
form and is mere i:aecure. | fhould be
glad TO know, fir, what is meant by the
paper 0atbo,4y; are We to judge in this
bufnefs, or is the executive to Judge tor
Us Sir, the executive has feen fit to Judge
for us, but believe he has gone beyond
the linegof his duty and it would be more
proper TO call this document, now in my
hand ,.an oficious ;ilan anofiicialatf. How
ever unpleafant it may be to gentlemen to
call this an executive meafure, the great
tolicitude difcoyered by the PRECEDENT TO
to get difembarraled of this mott falutary
conaitutional check, proves it his mea-
fure; IT'S not the neaiure OF Congrels nor
Of the people, but Of the executive. Not
latished with calling the attention of con.
greis TO this fuhje6f, he has, in his zeal to
turnifh arguments tot hofe who iupport here
his meafures, given Jus table faewing
what buiilels had been done in the federal
courts prior to the late organization Of
them. Had the former freidenr furnifh-
ed the late Congreis with fuch a document
as this, it would have sbee n conGdered as
abundant evidence Of the inconyenient or
ganization Of the federal courts, and fur
nilhed arguments for the change in the fyf-
TEN which we did make; the reiul1 of this
document is, that owing to the inconve-
nient arrangement ct the iyaem, Tutors
were deferred from entering the national
courts. 1t fhews how Insufficient the pro.
vifion fer doing buhnefs was under the
ancient fyaem, and rot how little there is
to do. In nation 70 great, and 70 grow
Ing in its greatness as ours is; among
people 70 commercial, 70 enterpriGng, and
70 attached to right as are the people of
this country, there mutt be much Jaw or
there will be no jufice. But had the
late executive furnilhed, uniolicited by |
Congrefs, fuch document, the whole
nation would have rung with centuries.
He would have been charged with con-
Gdering Congrefs as mere bureau--a
committee or commune through which the
executive was TO m1ke his projects and
his prcpenhties felt. In this document
No. 8, we fee the arm of the executive
RATED againif the judiciary, and in his
nleRage we hear him fay it muf fall. If
he had contented himfeif with merely d.
reding our attention to the law he wiihes
repealed, we might have obtained much
more uieful information for ourielves than
what he has been pieakrd 70 olive TT he