American watchman and Delaware advertiser., 1826-02-21

weak and the panopy OF all, IS still at the icot OF us
vctors disabled by the blows inflicted by reckless
majority, whose forbcarance your remonsiranees
could not COMMUNICATIONS upIted arm your con
sututon could not Tor one moment suspend ne
Pretenders' to Office in the Court OF Appeals as
if driven 10 desperation by some unaccouniable IN.
fuence OF chvarous patriotism, or excessive iofe
Of money and power, still hang like an incubus on
the bosom Of your constitution, stifling the voice
parayzing her judicial arm, and stsgnating her
most useful principles. The "new court" The
spurious offspring Of caucus still clings as with
the grasp of death, to the judicial column OF your
potca! fabric, resolved in its agony to tear it down.
and either perish in its crush, or surviving its tall
mount the ruins and stand monument OF its own
unhalowed triumph, and the prop and idol oil us
CO operating party. And recent events indicate
that this fungus excrescence Of legislation is to be
nourished not only by your Treasury, which It has
already robbed of about 860o0-but, il necessary,
by the blood Of those in6del citizens, who shall be
so impious as to deny its legitimacy, or so daring
as to refuse homage to its usurped authority This
mock tribunal, defying public opinion, TO which it
boasngly appealed and which has denounced it as
destitute of all color of authority, maniiests fixed
determination TO decide your causes without your
consent, or prevent decision Of most OF them, by
the constitutional court
Your Executive declares war against all who
shall attempt to enforce your will and aid your
court in doing your business and as you will have
seen by report OF committee OF The House Of
Representatives, the Governors Son. and other
kindred spirits, with the presumed connivance OF
his Excellency have made military preparations
TO carry this horrible threat into fatal execution.
After failing in appeal to your reason, an appeal
is now made to your fears-and it you dare to de-
lend your opinion, YOU are menaced with brutal
force; the ultimate reason OF despols and are no.
tihed that your decision shall be reversed by the
royal argument Of the bayonet. II you consider
your constitution as worth preserving ii you value
it as you should do, supremely ii you look 10 1t as
the palladium Of your Liberty you intend to govern
yourselves and carry on your government, by moral
and not physical power, look around you and behold
your impending danger; and by prompt display
OF your energies, right yourselves Do not be lul
led by delusive security The danger is immi-
nent and near your doors. Although it has not en-
tered your dwellings although you may not have
ielt its grasp or seen its Dotseps gigantic power
IS stalking abroad, which, il not promptly and reso
| lutey met will soon undermine The foundations OF
your constitution, and impose on you yoke, which
however gdsd light, will be 10 you and your
| children the yoke Of moral and political bondage.
AT the opening Of our session, our ears, instead
OF being saluted with the mild aud mellifuous notes
OF peace, were shocked with the shrill clangour OF
War, blown from the Executive Trump instead
| OF hearing recommendations of order and submis-
sion to your DEGREES, are left only to infer from
the language and temper of his ExceIlency, in his
late annual message, that he defed public opinion
the great lever Of the republic, and that as the guar
dian oil the peoples rights he was resolved to resist
by force, the peoples will, and maintain by arms
his triumph over the peoples constitution.
| Who was prepared for such Messages IN wha,
age or country we're free and enlightened people
addressed In such manner, from such source
and on such an occasonr We believe il is not
transcribed in the annals of Henry the VIII,
Charles the ], or James the III. What the Gov.
| ernor OF the people, to trampe on the constitution
OF the people-menace by physical force, to resist
The wishes OF the people and to denounce war
! against the people Yet such is Governor De
sha and such his Message ~! Unawed BY this war
speech. we lost no time in making known our de
cislon; and asserting in becoming manner your
| rights.
| We hold these principles to be fundamental, and
these truths to be self evident. That free govern.
ment being instituted by the people and for their
benefit, they are the final Judges Of all political
questions, the only umpircs who can just rrever-
sibiy collisions OF the departments which endanger
the equilibrium of the constitutions that they
alone can decide who ere the constitutional incum
DENTS OF their supreme court and their decision on
such question aUhenerer or however EXPRESSED
from political necessity, should have uncomfortable
effect, and cannot be questioned or resisted by :her
missionaries or public agents without disturbing
the harmony and frustrating the bcnefcent and re
publican ends of our government that every at
tempt to eude or control the peoples will on such
ultimate questions by those to whom they have
conhded any portion o their power, is usurpa,ion
and deserves their severest and most unqualft
apprehension; that the Court Of Appeals is ordain
cd by the constitutions and never cease for one
moment to exist, as long that charter possesses
one principle of vitality; that the Judges of tina,
court, are entitled to hold their Offices during the
existence OF the court, or in other words The con
s'tuuon, unless removed by impeachment or ad
dress, with the votes OF two thirds of both branches
oil the Legislaturc. That ihf renrnani,in1s nc. of