Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-02-19


reign for ever.
That great common tribunal is no, fit topic for
party disputation or popular defamation until the
design be entertained oil rendering party engine,
or OF making odous among the people, aud substi-
tuting party engine in its place.
The Judiciary must, form necessity, and the ns:rrc
OF Its functions possess heightened powers. Hence
the ease with which it may be rendered odious ma
king 1t ato ic OF party and eicctoncerng discussion
and representing 1t to the people, who have the least
means ofJndging oil it, as desp~ic department of
tie Government, changing the relative powers of
the States and the Union, aud harboring designs of
consolidating the Government into single empire.
by deprvlng 1t of the confidence of the pubic, it
loses lis great utility IN Quieting instead of nia ming
the public mind, when decides any Of the important
questions and principles of yet young Govern
men, OF the Union, or those that may arise among
the States.
In such state of the public mind instead Of calu-
ing and quoting and restoring tranquility society,
the decision OF any great and interesting question
would but rritate and iname the more, and In time
become the signal for conmotion and revolt. Look
to the great irritating events Of our brief history as
Republic, and pause in this hazardous course.
| Hour Judges misconduct themselves let the law
FIJI proceedings be had and the appropriate remedy
applied.
II the organization orour common tribunal be unfit
for the pu poses OF ITS creation let the proposed ro
form or substitution be presented and discussed be
fore tie competent department to apply the remedy.
Ii n be within legislative competency, let the bill be
introduced and discussed here. If it require an u
mendnent to the Constitution, let the proposed n
mendncns be sebrn;ttod and deliberated on; and if
passed by Congress, go to the People and States
Tor consideration, discussion and adoptou and the
decision be in favor OF the present Judicial Depart
mcnt 1.-THE Union, as 1t at the formation Of the
government let US sustain lis reputation aud utility
for the good OF our country.
lt should be the last object OF party attach. Save
Us from ever behodlng that TRIBUNAL too, converted
INTO party engine to be welded III the work Of par
" pToscriptiOn
The Senate or from Missouri has entor.a rcd you
with an account Of his reading the State 1'rGS of
England, al remarkably tender age, for his gid
owed mother, probably that she, women are won't
to do, might weep over the judicial murders which,
he tells you, distinguished the reign of the House
stuart 1t was quite natural for boy OF seven or
eight years of age to be horror-struci und deeply
impressed with those luridcal tradgedics, ds he de
ciares himself to have been; aud it is to be hoped
tina, Ta has pr0fted BY the examples.
Lis attempt, however i'll his new born zcal eainst
the American system, (as it is harmlessy caled9 TO
draw parallel between the party tribunals of that
gloomy period IN the history of England, cutting off
lnortIes by the batter and gbbet, and the Supreme
Court OF the United States. yet exists sustain
ing the beneficial powers of the Federal Government
to make internal improvements, and perform other
general duties as means necessary to the accomplish
ment of objects expressly conided to this Coy
ernnlent and impracticable by the States, was
equally unsuccessful and unpatriotic.
This attack upon the Supreme Court was made,
too, after nights sleep upon what still lay in adj
vance; and was announced to us before the adjourn
ment, new field to be entered the next morning
Verify the new field has been unproitably and un-
periodically occupied, although did imagine saw
an apParition from Virginia, stalking across the Wis
ion of the orator. in tie slumbers Of the preceiipp
night.
The corrupt state of the Judiciary of England as
described to us, so far from boing ths cause Of
the evils OF that day, but the effect of the great
! or evils OF that gloomy epoch. Those evils had
their source far beyond the Judiciary in that same
inordinae and unhallowed ambition, desire to rule
ondlnst of power. governed by that same party dis
ciplne ard prescriptions which, nave foebly attem-
| ted TO deprecate, md 10 denounce in the United
States; and which pulled down the last Administra
ton, and now makes the once proud Americans feel
ike slaves. and blush for the fallen state of theiy
Countrywide humble victim Of petty Cabinet tyran-
MES and corruptions
Those evils had their source there and like turbid
and overwhelming torrents. Frustrated the Executive
the Legislature, and the Judiciary Departments
OF England, in their desoating course, HISTORY
warns us that it required the purifying fires of an
other revolution to restore England from her fallen
greatness; and let US profit by the example, and avoid
her errors, while we may. Man is the same in sim
liar circumstances, throughout the world; aud no
mlnitor Is more safe than faithful history
enter my protest against making the Judiciary of
the u. States the topic Of mere patty denuncialfon
and popular defamation 1t would be much more
patriotic employment to draw that report Of 1896 to
curtai executive patronage and put bounds 10 exec
utve viii, from its long, four years, blacR hole Cal
cutta imprisonment IN the cold vaults Of this CAPITOL
aud thaw 1t INTO life, and put IL into practical opera
ton ] repeat TO you, that unless you do So lis
long imprisonment, without the benefit of the wr of
fIatens Corpus, will be considered as conclusive cs-
timony by the public that it originated in the cor
rnpt design of endowlng party press by its extcn
s'Te printing and circulation, and of prostulnp
your Senatorial functions TO pull down the late I'D
mlnstratlon TO get possession of their places and
not for the public good
Your awkward alfectslion of looking ont for the
time 'proPous TO the enlargement of the powers Of
the people,, as wistfuly a fanatic Jew looks out
for the coming OF his temporal Messia will not pass
l. Al a.. 4
are sincere in desire to avail yourself Of il; and
especially now, when the whole "ten talents" OIL
power committed to your charge.
The Senator from Kentucky, (Mr Rowan) usu-
sualy argues question like Senator, rather than
beigeran; or # he should occasionally become a
little bcigerant his war never degencratcs into the
massacre OF bis prisoners. / will now take I'D his
principal propositions in relation 10 the Supreme
Court, submitted 10 yesterday, and consider them
Using my own hssty notes, she'll not attempt TO
quote his very words; but TO state his propositions