Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-06-25
From tbe CHAaLEsroN CoukIEa.
ON JUDGE cHAsE's CHARGE, AND THE
REMARKS THEREON IN THE Ma
TIoNAL INTBLLIcENcRR.
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e, of the remarks made in the Wafhing-
ton Paper onthe Charge Of Judge Chafe,
we now proceed to offer TO our readers
few obfcrvations upon The mitchiess which
may juaiy be aPprehended from the cir
culatioh offuch fcntinen,s as thoie which
are dsfclofed in thole remarks, and TO point
out 70 the lovers Of the federal conititufi-
on the danger which approacheswith eve
ny day accelerated itepsso that Immediate
iewel of their fouls.
We NUT be undcrfood as addrel1ing
ourfrlves to every readers understanding,
upon the grounds that by whatever name
he may be called, whether federalif or
sepublican, anti-federalif, democrat or
jscobin, he profedes at leaf TO have in
view the maintenance of the federal con-
airution. Mr.. Jeferon protefes as much;
we hope be is fncere the ref of courle
will follow him. Taking this for grant
cd then, il will be admitted by them that
that contribution was nor made, nor in-
tended 10 be made, in the fpirit of pure
democracy. But, on the contrary, was
deyifed in the beG manner the circum-
Rances of the country would allow, upon
The plan which is admitted by the mott
wife and experienced men in the world,
TO bid fairelt for permanently FIGURING the
freedom of the whole againt the machine
fions OF any of its parts-we mean shat
Of !" cHscKo The Executive, the Re-
prefentasiye, ard Judiciary, were intend
edto compoie three difind parts, which
were to be mutual checks upon each other.
The Judiciary, in which the contribution
depofted the right Of expourding and ad
miniaering he laws, was to prevent. not
by its cw1 Discretionary power, but by
a iuf application Of th5 letter of the law
20 cafes as they msght arife, any excel1es
attempted by the other two parts, or Ell
Their of them. But what DO we feel Why
we Zee thofe laf fhaking hands, and APP
parently COMPUTING for the overthrow Of
that third branch of the contribution and
n lhort, wefce the whole fabric hatser-
ing and falling TO pieces, before thar fpirir
of pure democracy TO which the demo,
lition of Europe, and the uiuIpasion Of 3d.
naparte, are at this day wholly TO be at
tribnted.
We would fam be anfwered by fome
intelligent perion who has looked into
t{uch iubieds little deeper than the fu-
4per6cial crudities of tbs Rights Of Mar,
what for, of a goverument is that, which
at this moment lies in NOT very difant
profpea TO the United States'f flour fu-
lers will permit Us 10 call Them " Unit
ed'' much longer. The Representative
and Executive parts, ipfead Of being Vi
gilant watches, checks, and and controuls,
each upon the othsr, have found out the
iecret that the intefe& the private IN
tereR of the one is the interea of the O.
sher, compared with which the Confitu-
fion is as nothing. The conaitutional
check. the Judiciary, intefPotes 10 ex-
pound the laws, TO pointout in its official
place their infraaions upon the Contitu-e
zion, and'opon she real rights effbe pea
pie, when fraight they are alarmed and
rife up againit its they feel shat nothing
can fecure their mfcendusf from detettl-
on or hide their malverfatlon from public
view, if the wiidorn, the legal knowledge,
the integrity, the power, and The sutho-
rity Of that branch exit, and IS permitted
TO att and asi in vigour. IL is noun
tain thar obicnres the profpetfs of tina,
atabitious party. II matt be'got out of
The way and not only the Faction cry
ii down and dare to frike at its awful
head, bur the Legislative confPire to Grip
pie, net TO utterly defroy II 10 be iuFe,
boz to palfy, and TO Put.it into fate Of
non- effective, impotent exiifence And
now the country can diseern in it only the
lhadow Of a departed protector.
We venture TO aifert, that without any
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