The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-01-21

sti,ution. I think he was unforrunate IN his
| selection of cases. The carriage tax was car
| ried bcEare the supreme court and they de-
| cided in favour of it.. Tie sedtion law is a
gain referred to: have said enough of this.
And we are told that Congress is every da;'
violating state. rights; that they have lately
done so in the election of MIR. M'Crecry:
agree with the gentleman, ON this subject -
But how can the Judges remedy this decisi-
on! BY what process can disputed election
OF member of Congress be brought before a
court' Certainly not by = One Harramso.
But If the judges should think proper to is
sue such process, it will not ! 'obably be treat
ed with the same calmness and Indifference
with which the Secretary of State treatt .
the Mandamus. The only remedy for this
improper decision is to be found in the Pro-
tests of the States, and hope that the Lee
gislature of Maryland will protest against
the violation of their law.
1t Is true, Mr.. Chairman, thattwenty years
ago no one did propose this measure OH which
we are now called to act, but, sir, it will be
recoilected that twenty years ago our people
mad not witnessed such enormous strides of
judicial powers as we have seen since that
time, nor is it probable that the measure
would be now now proposed if we had Ca
tos, on the bench. 1t is because we have no
such men, & because such men cannot be ex-
pected, that it is necessary we should increase
the responsibility of the judicial department.
MIR. b. concluded by saying that if he for
moment supposed that the amendment
would jeopardize the best interests OF his
country, or even destroy the rights of sin
gle individual, he would be one of the last
to advocate it, but believing as he did that
the Judges are capable of making enormous
usurpations, and that a check ought to be
placed on their alterations, he should give
the resolution his support
(De6ate ~ be continued J
Inc following important bill has been en-
crossed fora third reading in the II. of d. on
tuesday. motion was made topostLone it
till 3lSt March, and rejected by a large ma
jority:
II bfH concerning the safe Of PROPERTY IN
der executions and membranes.
he II enacted by the General Assembly,
that so much of the act passed on the tenth
day OF December, one thousand seven hun
dred and ninety three, entitled D." An act, for
further continuing and amending the act, en-
titled An act for reducing into one the seve-
raj acts concerning executions, and fUr the
rellef OF nsoivent dcbtors," as directs, that
when goods, or other estate, taken in eXecu-
ton, cannot be sold for three-fo,1rths cfthei;.
and security to pay the debt within twelve
months, or that the said goods, or other estate,
may be sold on IL months credit and every
part OF the said recited act as concerns such
executions, either in the appointment of
commissioners 20 carry the same into effect,
or for the direction OF the sheriff or other of
hcer, or the clerk of any court in suing out
an execution on any such bond or OF any other
person "homsccver, and of every matter or
thinS thereto apper aiming, shall be, and the
same Is hereby declared to be, in full force
ana all courts, sheriHs, and other officers, as
well as the parties Concerned, are to govern
themselves accordingly, any thing in any law
to the contrary. Notwithstanding.
BE II further enacted, That before anv
Commissioners appointed by the decree of
any court OF Chancely to sell any real or per
sonal estate, any trustee under any deed
OF trust, shall proceed to sell the estate de-
creed to be sold, or conveyed in trust, the
commissioners directed to be appointed BY
TINS act, or any three OF them, shall value the
estate intended to be sold, OH the request Of
the creditor, and if threc-fourths at least of
the estimated value shall not be offered by
the highest bidder, the estate shall not be
then sold, nor shall it be at any time tnereaf-
ter SOLD during the continuance of this act.
tor less than three-fourths of such estimated
value. The valuation shall be made and en-
tered in writing, signed by the commission
ers, or any three OF them, and delivered to
the commissioners appointed by the Courts
OF Chancery, and to the trustees respectively.
The commissioners who may act by virtue of
this section, shall be entitled to the sum of
one dollar tor each day, they SHALL be en-
ployed to be paid by the creditors. q,
.IhSgct shall commence and be in force
from and otter the passage thereof, and shall
continue until the first day of February one
thousand eight hundred ant nine.
Extract Of a letter from Gen. James MI
1iHSoH, 10 nlen,6e,' cfthe Yi,:gi,ia Lcgis-
tat"''e, dafed Wahin&ton, Jdn 1871, '08.
8 In the dawn of this attack, demanded
from the President an enquiry intomy conduct,
which was granted for the 18th inst. since
which Mr.. X has denounced the mode of tri-
al secured to me by the constitution and the
law, and has branded the whole army Tor de-
lection or traitorous propensitics.-Th day
however. after Lag 49,,