The native American., 1840-10-31
ON THE JUDICIARY.
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In the importance OF tniS suOJcct VIII Dc
found both our reason and apology for the
continuation Of our remarks upon it.
1t will not be difficult for the attentive rea-
der to perceive, from the tenor of our pre-
ceding observations, that we do not belong
to that class Of politicians which, from lis
real or affected fears, are in perpetual APP
prehensions of the corruption and tyranny Of
this branch Of our Government; but that, on
the contrary, we are among those who be-
lieve, that to no one department Of it, can be
more safely entrusted those powers with
which Congress has invested it, than the Ju-
dietary. We know indeed that great power
belongs to the Judiciary, and we are aware
that this power may be abused; and that it
may even be corrupt from the crown of its
head to the sole Of its feet. There is no
shield, however acehilean, that the arrows Of
temptation may not pierce. There is no
station, however exalted, that corruption may
not assail. An angel fell in Heaven-and
man may fall on earth. The descendant Of
him whose disobedience blighted the flow
ers Of Paradise, and caused a world to be ac-
cursed, we carry about us the evidences Of
has guilt in the darkness Of our understand
ings-in the stubborness of our will, and our
proclivity to sin. But, if from the liability
Of the Judiciary to be corrupt, an argument
is to be drawn against the powers which they
possess, then this argument, by proving too
much proves nothing. As well might legis-
lation be objected to, because init, are some
times found abuses as we'll might marriage,
because infdelities are likewise seen in this
state and as well might religion, because
even 1.-THE choicest-the best gift of Hea-
vents sometimes used as the mantle to con-
ceal some of the most detestablc crimes, or
the stepping stone Of the most unholy ambi-
ton. But what, we would enquire, would
be the consequence Of abolishing the first ?
The end of law and the sway Of mobs.
What of the second? The beastly republic
of that monster Robert Dale Owen, which
England, in an evil hour for us, vomited up
on our shores-the annihiliation of the en-
dearment Of welded love-the extinction oil
the ties of nature, and man,-the slave of his
passions--degraded below the brute. And
woman, the fairest flower which blooms in
this ruined world-woman, whose smiles
can eradicate the gloom Of prison--woman,
around whom cluster the sweetest recollec-
tons of mother, wife, sister and friend-wo-
man, thus lovely, excellent and exalted, falls
land what iall it is D---below that mass
Of morbid and loathing putrescency- Fanny
Wright, another precious sample Of foreign
expectation. And, if religion were abol-
ished, what then would be our condition ?
Dismal indeed. The appetite, not reason
the senses, not sentiment--the passions, not
the affections, would be the law. This cor
dial of human life would be dashed from our
lips-ths soother in those hours Of sadness
when human consolation falls Indifferent Oh
the ear,would be destroyed--this plank upon
which the mariner stands in the wild and
boisterous- ocean of human life, is torn from
his feet-this star which points to another
and happy world, where care is unknown,
and joys forever reign, would be quenched,
and man, poor man, an exile from his home,
and prey TO his anxieties, would be left
(the thought is appalling, but it is true,)
without God. Such would be some of the
consequences Of destroying that Divine Rev
citation, against which our foreign renegadoes
persons as Infamous in private life, as their
principles are pestferous, ---shoot their darts,
dipped in the malice of their envenomed
hearts. We might cite other cases to show
the fallacy of the sophism which we have at