Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-01-28

understanding, 10 the'1 'hteRiit4sio 1he
hoao., to their love Of fame, to Their
fenf. OF ihame. If, all theie checks
.hou,d Prove infuHcient, and alas! iucl
is the co ,dition of human nature, tina
i fear they viii not always be Efficient
ne contribution has given US one more
It ha. gwen US an independent judicia-,
ry. We have been told, that the exc
cn,ive authority carries your laws into
execution. Blu. let US not be the duPess
OF found. The executive magiitrate
commands indeed your fleets and armies (;
and duties, impoas, eseiies, aud all o.
,Aer taxes, are collected, and all ex-
~eotli.ures are made by officers whom he
his appointed. So far indeed he exc.
cu,es your laws. But ,hefe his acts ap-
DIV not often to individual concerns. In
thofe cafes 70 important to the peace
and happincfs of focie,y, the execution
of your laws is conhded to your judges.
And therefore are they rendered indie
pendent. Before then chat you violate
that independence--Psp:e--there are
fate iovereign,ies, as we'll as the toye-
reign,y of the general government.--
There are cales-too many caies-in
which the intereG OF one is not coniider-
ed as the intere!t Of the other. Should
rhefe conflict the judiciary be gone,
the queaion is no longer cf law but of
force. This is fate of things which
no honea and wife a. can view without
horror.
Suppoie, in the omnipotence Of your
! Legislative authority, you trench upon
the rights of your ow.ci'izens, by
paRing an unconstitutional law: 1t the
| judiciary department prelerve its vigor it
will flop you ihort. lsaead of a retoEt
! to arc.s there will be happier appeal to
| argument. Suppofe cafe fill more i'm
! preilive. The PRECEDENT is at the head Of
your armies. Let one OF his generals,
aaihed with vittory, and proud in COM
nand, prsfume to trample on the rights
| of your mof Insignificant citizen. lndig-
| naut Of the wrong, be will demand the
| protection of your tribunals, and fate in
| ihadow of their wings will laughhis op-
predor to !ccrn.
Having aow, / believe, examined all
she arguments adduced to lhew the exre-
liency of this motion, and which fairly
! fitted, reduce themfelves at lait to theie
two things. Reftore!the sntient y fem
| and fave the additional expencs Before
/ clofe whstI have to FAY on this ground,
| l hope 1 lha!l be pardoned for faying one
or two words abou, the expence. hope
alto, that notwithstanding the efithsts
which may be applied to my arithmetic,
l aall I've pardcaed for slng that which
| learnt at iehool. 1t may have deceived
| RE when it taught me that two and two
| make four. Bet though it hould nsqv
be branded with opprobrious terms. l
mutt HK believe that two and two DO
Aay make four. Gentlemen Of newer
theories, and of higher attainnents, while
the fmiIe a: my interior;ty, mutt bar with
my indrmities, and take me asI am.
In all this great gttem Of faving in
all tn S oaentatieus economy, this rage
Of reform, how happens it that the ca
gle eye has 40, yet been turned to the
Mint? That no one piercing glance has
been able to behold the expenditures of
that department / am far from with
ingte overturnis. Though it be not Of
great necsGty, ncr even of fubfantial
importance, though it be but fplendid
trapping of your government; yet as it
may be iraprefing en- your current coin,
the enblems of your fovereign,y,. have
fome tendency to encourage anational lpi-
rit and to foiter International pride; / am
willing to contribute my ihare 20 It's ftp
port. Yes, Sir, 1 would fol1er the natl
onal pride. I cannot indeed approve Of
national vanity, ncr feed it with vile
adulation. But would gladly cheriih
the lofty kntiment Of national pride. l
would with my countrymen to feel like
Ro,n.,e ~ ha az f,rnud &C Enoli{hman.