Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-02-02

canal towards Michigan, and that peninsula
will. in a short period, be located ana peoPied'
from Lake to Lake. These three, SIT, IN less
than FIVE years, with due courtesy and TAR cause
for admission. will knock at your door. ana
propose to sit down in the family circle 81 po-
iitical Union. This is not all, sir population
is travelling up the latitude, across your North.
western territory. towards the great Caspian OF
our continent. and when they shall have heard
of your shins on the waters of the Oregon, and
of rour colonies along The rich valley Of that
river-as, from The able report Of the geh'lemaa
from Massachusetts, whose nina Is caPSoie Oh
such things, we may predict, they VIII 'er!
soon hear-these people, VIII then, SIT, VII" .,e
rapidity of deep sea-lead, thrown from the
chains OF seventy-four, plunge down the Ion
gitude to NEE, and to mingle with their couh-
trymen on the waters of the Pacltlc
Twenty years, sir! Are We told that the sys-
tenn oil the bill will accommodate and satisfy
! the judicial wants Of this country tor twenty
wears? In twenty years you will have ten new
States, and thirty millions OF people! Why,
sir. in such coun,ry-sucha sun-brlght region
of hill and vale. mountain and moor, river,
Main lake, and all of boundiess fertillty-where
nopu!ation are busy on land, and on ocean; where
from the plough, the loom, and the soil, they
continually draw the materials OF food, clothing,
habiton: where the human arteries swell ana
pulsatc with teeming existence; where the hu'
man bosom heaves aud papitates with the los
terne current OF incipient life-What calcula-
lion will YOU make? What calculation can you
make, approximating in any reasonable degree
towards reality?
What then, sir, the advocates Of the system
of the bill may ask-What shall be done! ne
opposers of it are prepared for the interrogato-
ny: Adopt the system recommended by the re-
solution' Restore the Constitution. Trace
out and fill up, the great judiciary map Of 1889;
revise, and correct, and establish the constltu-
tional lines of the law Of 1901. We are told,
sir, by the gentleman from Illinois, that the ex-
Derience Of single year overthrow that system.
WAS. then, the system Of SOL overthrow by
experience? AS well might the honorable gen
tleman tell us that brick, and 81 ante, and mar
ble. are improper materials for houses, and
palaces, and temples; because experience has
taught US, that, al some times, and III some pia-
ces. earthquakes have overthrown and demo-
lished such bu ildings, at was" says the no.
norable gentleman from Massachusetts, Chair
man of the Judiciary Committee, "repealed III
law on which it was founded, was "enacted in
the hurried session OF the summer OF 1889!
Because it was built on false analogies, or con-
tanned awkward provisions? That session, sir,
was begun on the 4th Of March, and ended OIL
the oath of September In this session, oil
somew ha, more than six months, those Illus
uious men enacted twenty-seven laws, and pas
sed three resolutions. Was this hurried legis-
la,ion? Why, sir, many Congress, since that
period, putting no extraordinary yigor or hasty
effort TO the work, have, in less time, sent into
the world legislative progeny Of from two to
three hundred laws, great and little. What
have we now, sir, valuable, or Improbable dura-
bi!ity, and which was not produced by that
CONGRESS-, at thai session? The fiscal, the TO-
reign, the war, the naval, and the judicial de-
partment, were then, and by those men, found
ed. erected, and finished These great national
edifices have stood, and trust will continue to
stand; for, when the vandalism of faction shall
demolish them, we shall cease to be nation.
Later times, it is true, have added, now and
then, piece Of thing, or patch OF paint; and
the nation has put itselfto costs upon the inte-
rior garniture Of them, the drapery, and other
various ornament and accommodation; but, O.
tberwise, these valuable edi6ces are nearly as
old, as unatered and quite as venerable, as the
Constitution itself. awkward provisions and
false analogies,' do we call any part of sthe ju-
dietary act of that session? Ii was, sir indicted
by the Elsworths and Hamiltons of those times
-men, whose political lutte finger was larger
than the loins ofpoliticians in t!,'se degenerate
days Why, sir, do not men who know, tell
US boldly for what cause the judiciary law Of.
1901 was repealed. Men Of candor, and trust,
sir, such men are in great numbers here, will
all agree that party overthrow that system.-
Why disguise it Those unhappy days are
past, and we are indeed now all "brothers OF
the same principle" What was not demollsh.
ed in those inconslderate times? The Natioaal
Bank, the Army, the Navy, Forti6cations-al-
most all that told the understanding, or the
eve, that we are pne-tumbled into ruins, in the
shock of that tremendous political earthquake.
Coming years brought better feelings and
sounder reasonings; and men have profted OF
their experience, and re-edihed all that was
mos, valuable: The Bank, the Army, the Navy,
the system of Forti6cations; and we are again
a nation. Our fortresses on the OCEAN and Oh
the land, look out from many hundred iron
eye, ready with indignation 10 blaze annoyance
and destruction against hostile approach
Why sir, do you not follow this enlightened
experience in your Judiciary? The very Turk
or Tartar, though he demolish the palace and
temple OF classical antiquity, yet will he draw
from the ruins materials for his stable and his
seraulio He who does not profit by that of