Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-02-24

;nj,icc vas administered, Tie ci'izShs
ln.-bI 70 have conhlence IN tho!e .wao
administered it; snd It would be wrong
= the f,oult 10 force upon the Rate ne re-.
prefcnted man as judge thar woa'a oe
conhiered as ar evil.
Mr.. Bacon laid the mention Ct the cir
cumttaoces aased by the gentleman from
Pe1ofyivaniia was rather difasrseablt. ~ =
might perhaps, be neceG4Ty. EaS ne aio
not think the trial Of the judges was 'oe'i
before the houG.. The only ioiia oplcc-
ton 70 the bill is this /; that there afe
arong & peculiar prejadices IL lone paris
Of he union asaina certain Ju1Se.---
Whistler the(e were reafanable, or n0t, 1t
was query whether the laws could Dc
administered as we'll under peTion assihit
whom there exits fixed pTeJuaiee
however uintounded hatpie]udlee May oe'
as under perlons againlt whom t1ch Pre)a-
dice Goes not exli. In this view OF the
(ubiett, the Objection was NOT entirely
without weight. 1t was certainly OF
gtear importance that all our officers, ou'
particularly our judicial officers .houid be
treated with reipett; and if IN New Jer-
icy & Pennfylyania certain judge is not
duly rejected, that might furniih an az
gument againH the bill.
MIR. Bayard faid he believed the gen
teman from Pennfylyania (Mr. Snile)
was correct in faying that man OF the
name of Fries had been tried and convid-
cd of treafon. He believed alto there
were many other men guilty OF ininrgen-
cy and trrafon who had neither been tried
or convicted of trealon. lie futther be-
lieved that any mar guilty Of the crime
of infurgency or treaion would lock upon
the Judge as a Jeffrles. But he Gid not
know what the character OF Judge Chaie
had to 10 with the proviGonS OF the Oil
on the table. No man bad imPeached
thar Judge; and that was the only resn-
lar or conltitutional mode OF eliminating
Judge in that Houfe. If the Judge had
conlt,u cd an oppohtion to particular
law into treafon, and by a laiie, and, he
prefumed, what gentlemen meant TO mil
! nua,e, corrupt deciion, jeopatdiied the
life of citizen, only ultimately iaved by
The clemcncy Of the PRECEDENT, was Il nor
the dury of thofe who thought 70 TO I'M
peach him? Was nor this the duty OF the
| o. Donnf, L..-;- This
would be fair, honorable and open. The
charges would be regularly made; and
the Judge would be heard in his defence.
1.-THE gentleman believed the Judge guilty
OF the charges he had made, il was duty
70 h'mfelf and TO the American people,
70 bring them forward in the Gaape of an
impeachment. But the gentleman has al
inmed The character of reporter of law
cafes without the capacity. No doctrine
had been laid down in the cafe of Fries
that had not been acceded to by the whole
bench; and he believed, if any judge
whatever had been on the bench he would
have made the fame deciGon. I, was ex-
tremeiy poliiole for cafes to arlie IN which
the court hall decide after the iulleh ar
gament and the mott mature elaboration,
and which it will not be necei1ary to exa-
mine again. The court may FAY we have
fully conGdered the cafe, and do NOT
require any further arguments. This
was not the Doctrine of Jefsies bur
of Hale and Camden, thofe luminsries
of law, and ornaments Of the EngIilh
Bench.
MIR. Bayard concluded by laying he
regretted that fuch an extrinic dilcuai- |
on fhould have been introduced into the |
debate but he hoped the majority of |
the Eouie would grant the requett of the
Judges.
The que{}ion was then taken on Erik
ing out the fre fiction, and carried Ayes
AZ, Noes SO.
The fecond fettion was agreed to; when /!
the Committee rofe and reported the bill,
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