Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1807-02-13

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eeunt will be taken, as well of the WantolIl a.
buses of power, as the shameful derefetioh
81 duty which. permits them! but let US shew
by our zeal, in support of our country, By our
submission to lawful authority, and ny all III
tire pid opposition to every foreign OF donesslI
foe, that there is noprstext for the dlctaIotiai
power that has been usurped over Us.
al have said that we aaAsn su9er. Never
were two words more applicable, that IS our
situation. 1t is one, the most dreadful % ah
independents 1nindof any that can be lmaSS.il-
ed. i Subject toithe uncontrolled will OF 3 SIN
gle man.. with whom the hearsay tales OF SIAN
der are jiroots,. and who, on his sWn cSideues'
arraigns, condemns and Furnishes the accused,
dooms him to. imprisonment, banishment ana !
ruin; By whom the tribunals are lnsulted, ana
to whom the civil executive apparently sur
renders its force. What state OF things Can
be worse? No caution can protect! NO coi.-
sciousness Of innocence, secure. 4 lie esi-
dence is taken h privatc. Malicious, cow
@ardly infornaers skulk around the proconsaiaf
Office Their tales add sound to teeiirSs q
pre-sxistent eninity, or avenge their oWh
,quarrels by secret denunciations OF guilt
The objects of official suspicion are cehnhed
In unusual remote prisons. heH lettefs are
intercepted, conan unicstion with them IS re-
stricted, and they ares lis SAID, exposed to q
dangerous voyage on the ocean, IN the HoSt
inclenent season of the year y ne posslblil-
ty too, Of their being Interrupted by oPae
nish force, and condemned to perpetual i'm
plisonment in their dungeons, or mines, is
not the least probable, Or the least tllghttul
part o. the picture. -
In the mean time where is the necessity
that exists for these measures? Are the courts
shut! Do the Judges refuse their duty a.
Arc tie. Ordinary prisons insecure. No! The
course ofjustice. has, except by these events,
been uldisturhed. The officers are at their
posts, nor is there any appearance Of violence
to tse civil authority. Instead therefore, OF
securing the punishment, or the prisoners,
these extra-;uGili.I arrests are the only means
that rernaps, could be devised for screening
them II guilty, from punishment. On their
arrival III the United States they must be sar-
rendered to the eivi powe.,, and the arrest APP
peaiieg to be illegal they must be enlarged.
Ihs witnesses who could here (H the
charges are well foundrej have sabs;sn,i-
ascn sneif guilt, bring at a great distance,
time VIII b. given them to escape. and that
punishment SO necessary to be inaicted on
the crimes which they are ohar ed wishwil
be eluded. Whereas if the eiyilau,aori'y
had been applied 10, and suffered 20 take
lis cou Sc, eficient, aud what is perhaps of
a. much consequence, pfomp justice wtn'd
have bee done. An awtult xampie would
have ben offred ou the spos, that mtgAs
hsve ap'lrG he gully or speedy a qan
Eal 20 the innocent, would have Destroyed
those svmpa hies which i'll gal and vio|en
measures always create. At a momeu'
when union is mere necessary .han a, a-y
@ er period The shadow of injustice Dug
x have beeu avoided
a consideration OF these consequences,
a cosvicnon If the Illegally Of he arrests
and serse Of dusy mdaeed me, ia con-
p!lanee With The reques, Of fellow psat.
''tioner, 10 asiempt the Judicial release e'
d. boilmap. OF Whole gu;l., as IS now
stated, shere was suHicient froot TO have
GatrArted commitment here.
y ha, same sense of duty induced me to
issue another wrf of hebeas cosPes Tor Mf
Alexander and Mr., Ogden. ne latter
gentleman Fad been bropght fsW da's
prier oshisy before Judge Workman. aeo
was dlschsrg, din a 6anee to sll civilian
shonly BE was included in the same order
for arrest with Nj. Alexander, and was
taken on Monday on, of his lodgings by . |
party Of afm$d Dragons, and supp Sc
sen, ont Of ,he territory. for ,he return'o /
,hs habeas. corpus IN the cause was are
ference to that in the case OF Rollaan.
j know not what effect, This publication
will have. Fl may justify me to my cosla
t,y. which is the first wish of my heart.
I, may be the means Of producing strict (
scrutiny into my condncs. which inviss.
i, may draw down The further vengeance