Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-03-29
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FRIDAY, MARcH 60,
From the Eirginia Gazette.
Two grand attakks are making against
the constitution of the United States, and
against the constitution Of the state of
Pennsy lvauia. Our FIRST patriots are en-.
gagged. in the undertaking, Mr.. J. Ran.
dolph, Mr.. Joseph H. Nicholson, Dicta.
tor Duane, aud DR.. Leib: the two for.
mer, against the constitution OF the United
States, and the two latter against that Of
Pennsylvania. The causes that have more
particularly awakened the amor pa,rie of
these statesmen, are not dissimilar. In
the state Of Pennsylvania, the judge. of
thr Supreme Court, in the prosecution of
their duty, had most unavoidablv been
guilty of offending that great and merito.
rious character the Editor of the Aurora /;
an offence of the most heniou. description.
For this temerisy Of the judges. they must
be removed from Office. The Legislature
Of the state, request the govern, r to re-
move them. The governor refuses.
What shall be done next? Impeach them.
A cause of Impeachment is conjured up.
They are tried and acquitted. There is
an end, says that great man Duane, tn all
our rights and liberties. Ne have gone
through all the calamities Of .revolutiopa.
ny war with Great Britain in vain. I, the
organ Of the public will, and as great a man
in my own estimation as any other in the
Union, am opposed in my patriotic career
by the judges Of this state, by the gov, m.
or of this state, by the senate of this state,
aud by the constitution of this state. And
is my great opposelsss will to be Illustrate
by barriers like these? Shall my services
and sacrifices be thus rewarded The
shining OF the sun on just as well as on me, I
cannot prevent over the stars of heaven
l have no direction (; but over this district
of the worlds surface will have controul {:
He spaks, and. convention was demand
ed.
Petitions are now flowing in from differ.
ent parts of that state, requesting its legis.
lature to call convention for the purpose
Of altering the constitution 80 that the 60
vernon, who would not remove the Judges,
shall himself be removed; so tina, the sen.
ators, who would not remove the Judges,
shall themselves be removed and so that
the Judges who offended Mater Duane
shall be removed BY the legislature and
all this under the prostitutsd name OF re-.
bubkcanism.
The ruiuous lengths, to which these
daring attempts inevitably lead, has reused
the dormant spirit of the best Of those
whom empty professions of repsblieanism
have heretofore misled: Godwinian doc.
,rines are not swallowed by all Man is
not yet perfect The time has not vet
arrived, which that author so much desired
to Sc, when laws. government, juries,
oaths, &c. should be at an end: Govern
ment is still considered necessary, and as
human nature now is blessing: These
characters, who mean to be republicans,
though they have been denominated demo-
Gratis, have united together under the name
of Constisutionalis,s, for the purpose Of
arrestins the rapid strides that are max.
ing TO anarchy. The fe9eralists have wit
uCSSSa WIZ JSStto"ibt t0tCOoO1ukS TIC
sanity OF the times. But now when they
perceive that reason is drawing largely to
her fold from the aock of democracy the
most able and upright, they thank God and
take courage. Dictator Duane and Doc.
tor Leib may yet be foiled, may ye, Be
In al their uuiles defeated and repulsed.
Let us now take view of the proceed.
ings against the national constitution pro.
ceedings not dissimilar in their origin, but
instigated by the same motives Of resent.
ment.
The enmity Of the violent democrats. to
the Judges of the supreme court of the
United States arose purely from a. differ
snce Of political principles. The eonsti.
tstion Of the United States, unlike the
constitutions of some of the individual
states, pernits no. removal of judge from
Office but by conviction on impeachment.
This excellent principle of the constitution
was reprobatcd tiu aimee the Commence.