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ment in the d/sposition os such essays
and intelligence as may be presented
For publication.
Ambrose Day.
lames Hely,
April 29, 1800.
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jvpport the Editor has received sincc
his commencement in busmess.
Arnbrose Day,
April 29, 1800.
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FROM THE AUROR A.
To the Americ \n People.
Ftlow Citizens ,
1 he common law’’ os England
Tigris to the par lament mon
st: ous powers os undesined pre
i T which that body calls
privileges, and which may be,
an ‘l ave been oan ex-
as enormous as they are in
-0 sinite! this is exemplisied in
,! *ry many instances in their
1 P u^an ientary proceedings : but
none mo’e egregiously than
e t! ial and condemnation os
*-5 great lord Stassord, in the
I re os Charles the sirst! This
. | T!^ nent statesman was not guil
i any crime against the
! s ute | aw> s os his country, but
pening to be a savourite os
t un i : ortunate prince, whom
I, T v ' vere intent on destroying ;
means by arbitrary
‘JtuQions os common law,
~ ■ Ke his lise, as a preparatory
> on the king
U q/ ’ constituted them
r^ CS , at on ce his accusers and
"he desence wuich
I ma(^e he sor st that
o' n?n r v arsv tr ;lt '
THE LOUISVILLE GAZETTE i
AND
REPUBLICAN TRUMPET.
miums srom his persecutors; so
that even the chairman os the
committee why h condusted th*-*
impeachment ngainst him made
the sollowing honourable men
tion os it“ never any man
a-tled such a part, or such a
theatre, with more wisdom. con
stancy, and eloquence, with
greater rcason, judgment, and
temper, and with a better grace
in all his words and astions, than
did this great and excellent per
son ; and he the hearts
os all his auditors, (seme sew ex
ceeded)* to remorse and pity.*’
As part os his eloquent desence
serves to expose the inherent 1
turpitude os the common law os I
England, 1 (hall now proceed
to give it to you Fellow-C,itizens 1
in his own words, consormably ,
to my promise in the last num- i
bers. “ Where has this species |
os guilt lam so long concealed ?
Where has this sire been so long
hurried, during so mat y centu
ries, that no smnke should ap
pear till it butst out at on r e to
con sume me and my children ?
Belter it were to live under no law
at all % and by the maxims os cau
tious prudence to consorm the
best we can to the a? hit ran will
os a maslcr, than sancy we have
a law on which we ran rrly, anc
1 sind at last, that this law shall
inshst a punishment precedent
to the promulgation, and try us
by maxims unheard os sill the
very momentos the persection.”
i$ It is now sull two hundred
and sorty years since trosons
were desined ; and so long has
it been, smee any man w s
touched to this extent, upon
this crime, besore mysels. We
have lived, my lords happily to
ourselves at home; we have
lived gloriously abroad to the
world. Let mbe content with
what our sathers have lest m ;
let not our ambition us to
be more learned than they weie,
in these killing and deHrustUe
arts. Great wisdom it will be
in your lordships, and jusl pro
vidence sor yourselvcs. so* your
poHerisies, sor the whole king
dom, to cast, srom you into the
sire, these blooey and mislenous vo
lumes os arbitrary an construttive
treasons; as the primitive chris
tians did their books os curious
arts, and retake yourse’v p s to the
plain letter os the statu’e, which
tells you where the c ime is, and
points out to you the path by
which you may avoid it l et
us not to our own deHrustmn
awake those deeping lyons, by
rattling up a company os old te
icords, which have W-’-jpjr ages,
(Ibythe wall n«d ne
* "my . 1 *
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TUESDAY, APR I L ;g ) ,8 00 .
übextv is ounmotto—and truth guide.
levete os any, that I, sor my
other sins, not sor my treasons,
b tbc mran> os intioducing a
precedent so pernicious to the
laws and liberties os my coun
tiy.*—Such and such like were
the noble desence os this illus
trious pcison ; but neither inno
cence nor eloquence could se
cure him srom the vengeance
os a de/perate parly, and he ac
| cordingly sell a sacrisice to their
malevolence! Should our se*
nate and house os vepresentatives
in congicss,evct adumeto them
selves such unwarrantable pow
-1 ers as the pailiamcnt os England
1 has dared, on this and many
equal unjust occasions, to a6l
; on ; woe be to the American
1 people, their rights and thrir
i liber ties, and now, sellow ciri
j zens, having ende voured aC-
I co’ding to the mediocrity os my
abilities, to open your eyes to
the Hanger tint await you, I
beg ttc> con< lude this essay hy a
piece os advice, which is jou
sollow, happy will it be ior
yoursc-lves, happy sor vour
children, and posterity will
you ? In the sirsl plare remove
srom your national councils a l l
such men as have Hiewcd a dispo
sirion to introduce aibitrary laws
and measures, in violation os the
hvmhises and liberty os our
country, under what pretext
soever; and clest in their Head
men os tried virtue patriorilm,
• and whose attachment to th°
principles os civil Jibeity you
can rely on—hals-way men will
not do to save vour sreedom
srom deH ustion ; si r either t tat
will peri sh, or you musl
decided sriends os liberty, both
in your stite. a»'d general elec
tions, as your representa'ives in
the legiHative councils os the na
tion ; and is you take not this
caution; I, hesitate not to say,
wit! opt any pretentions to divi- I
nation or prophen ; that the to- 1
ms and who re I
pursuing their nesarious scherncs
lot introducing arbitrary pow
er in this countty, wiih a pace
Hi ady as time, and an apoetite i
inlatiable as the grave, wilt suc
reed in overturning our liberties
and our conHitution. besore you
.■re awaic os the dangerous pre
dicament in which you (Lind!
Next 1 recommend your pro
posing an amendment to the
conHitution os the sederal go
vernment sor desining and li
miting the powers os congress
in regard to privilege, and -sor
rest raining either house srom
lummiry proceedings in cases
os liosils, 01* suppoled ossences
os nrsm . are amenable
Ja».-|ary 28. >T \
, rtpV _
injury tillered tocongress as well
as to a private individual—but
let me entreat you never to lose
sight os the maxim that no man
should he sunijhed /or any alleged
ossence, mtess sirst sound guilty, by
a jury os his peers. It the con
gas should establish a Angle
pieccdcm os luminary jurisdic
tion it may lead to stVidcs os
arbitrary power, wholly subver-
Ave os the sreedom os thepress
and the liberty os the nation '
ceitamly thr sramers os the
conHitution never designecl th it
rongies should oxer ise any
but a egisl itive power, and that
indrummt sligns distimst, ancj
disserent sunstions, botii to tho
legislative, the executive and the
judiciary; and neither can ]e
g *l!y 01 conslitutionally cxercise
the sundiions os the other, but to
put this matter bevond the possi-.
btiity os a doubt, you should
en eavour to bring sorward the
amendment wh ch I have pro
pole ; without which or seme
su hmeasute, I tell you that your
Id'ci'ie.s are insecurc —i nave
shswnyou already th t thr con
slituhon lias sie< n inr.ov ted on
hy the excrcish os n 41 1 sh rm
mon law in this roui n v , which
it nevn contempta cd slu uld be
the iaw os this land who then
can say bur that congress m.y
onie time or other, talc* up the
not ion that it ha* aright to the
lame enormous p wc:s which
the common law os nglanrl
,)sli s ns to the parliament ; ahd
should it ever act on them I rn
bold to declare that the sreedom
os this country would thereby
be tmmvdiatel y endangered*
this matter tlscresore calls pres- '
smgh sot yo,ur timely interposi
tum ! anoth rncceslary measure
which ym ought to pnrsue, is
os equal ma r nitu e sor the con
serva! ion os national sreedom;
in st rast your representatives in
1 c ngiels to bring sr. ward an ast,
I dct.laung that the rommo ri law
os I'nglan , 'i is no w.y s inding
to 1 hele Hates, sarther than luch
pans cs it as have been adopted
1 in the written codes ! and last
ly, to bring so ward another ast
sor regulating the appointment:
ot juries to liy caules between
the general government and ci
tizens os the L nited States !
at present th>s is done by a
marshall who ot ncccssitv must
be the creature os the executive,
and m y pack a jury os torics to
try a republican, srom whose
metcy or jusiice he can have
little to hope. It is evident
that die ossicers who nominate
such juries, should be indenen
t at. (j* i.c.v. the c 'O
iidiri,' r 1
[No. 65.