The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-11-24

IF mar prepares the MEANS OF m slack up-
on his country and draws around him band of
desperate adventurers if he lays before them
his treafonabe p-Siisee:., and iey areluieice in
his deiiens, that man is conGdered as among
the mott atrocious criminals, and may be hung
AS traitor. But If at the very moment when
he IS ahout to d'vuige his deiigns to his enter
prihng band, he is itopt blythe arrival of con-
Gable, feized and carried before magiftrate, he
may plead his innocence and muit he difcharg-
ed. He has violated no law he has incurred
no punhment.
II "A man has provided arms and emitted fol-
lowers, who only wait his tiyua to afiemble in
force, he is legally innocent. M 4
AS cur territorial! Courts are ro4v contributed,
no man can be produced from the Territory of
Orleans before a court of the u. States, to give
evidence of acts or plans which were projected
III THAI territory for the feizure of New. Orleans
ON the feparAtion of the nnion. An omiflion of
this Fort is too ferrous in its consquenees not to
require IN immediate remedy.
Thief: AMI many other cafes call for the inter
potion of Conyrefs.
With all his imperfeetione. the Chief Juftice
may ti'l enjoy the credit of f,ewng the necefiity
OF one important amendmenr to our federal
contribution. He j. not the frlt man, who
has tended tn do good without intending it.
But he has fhown us the potion and let us ap.
ply the an'idate. he has proved that Judges
are too independent Of the people let 1t be
the duty of onr fel!ow-citizens to make them
more refponiihle. a.,... 800
How? M
Different amendments have been fugge!tcd.
MIR. John Randolph propoftd, that Judges
mould be removed by joint addrefs of both
Houies of Congreis.
MIR. Titiin now in the Senate of the U. State.
from The H. nF Ohio b,s l,t. I'D t,x,f
| checks upon the. corruptihity of Judges: 1T
That they fhail be removed by the Preiden,
on the addreis of both Houies of Congrefs, anc
| 2dly. That they n.ail hold their offices (only
| for certain period.
The frt check is fuffcent without the add
tional one, purpofed by v. 1'ifin.
| This is neither new nor speculative amend
| ment.-lt exits in the Brtifb contribution itfelf
that boaited monument of human invention s
furely there is no republican in this country
who deiires to fee the bench of the u. S. NOR
Independent than it is in England. -. Backiton
fays:
land in order to maintain both the dignit,
and independence of the Judges in the iuprri
{" or courts, it is enacted by the ftatute Is. w
| q" III. C 8. that their commifiioDs fhall be mad
mot, as formerly, dnrante bene piaeito, but
F" quamdi1 6ene e gsDerint, and their falaries AS
ceriained and eftaoiihed but that it may b
!awfa 10 renao4'e item on the aadrcjJ Of bot
''Houies of Parliament
| From which it appears. that even in Great
| Britain judge is removable by the king by a
addrefs OF a bare majority of both houiss o
Parliament. And yet in that country this RICH
of removal has been feIdom or never exsrted
and no country has boafted OF more able or in
corrupt judges than England.
Even IN this country, the plan is not withou
precedent, as will appear from the folown
table of the periods, tenure, and removabilit
OF the judges under the different State Confi
tutions
STATES TENURE. RrMovAp,LrrY.