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WASHINGTON, (WILKES COUNTY, GA„) APRIL 1, 1811.
From the N. York Journal of Commerce,
March 9tli.
THE CASK OF ALEX’R. McLEOD.
The importance of this case, in its bear
ing upon the relations between this country
and England, lias induced us to examine
the question whether our National Govern
ment has ;t right to interfere in the trial of
the prisoner, so as to withdraw it from State
jurisdiction, and enable the General Gov
ernment (which may be made responsible
in some degree lortlie act,) to have the con
trol of it.
Before the adoption of the Constitution,
each State had the right to punish infrac
tions of its laws, of which it was its own
judge, and it still retains the right exclu
sively, unless power over the subject has
been granted to the General Government.
This position need not be argued to our
readers.
Has, then, the General Government re
ceived any grant of power in the Constitu
tion, authorizing it in any way to act in this
matter, cither exclusively, or concurrently
with the States, or as a matter of appellate
jurisdiction
The only clause in the Constitution
which can bo held to have any reference to
the subject is the following :
§ 2. Art. 3. “ The Judicial power shall
extend to all cases in law and equity, aris
ing under this Constitution, the laws of the
United States, and treaties made or which
shall he made under their authority ; to all
cases affecting ambassadors, other public
ministers and consuls ; —to all cases of ad
miralty and maritime jurisdiction ; to con
troversies to which the United States shall
be a party ; to controversies between two
or more States ; —between a Stale and citi
zens of another State ; between citizens of
different States—between citizens of the
same State claiming lands under grants of
different States ; and between a State or a
citizens thereof, and foreign States, citizens
or subjects.”
The same section provides that the Su
preme Court shall have appellate jurisdic
tion, under the regulation of Congress, of all
the cases enumerated except those affeo
j ting Ambassadors, other public Ministers
and Consuls, and those in which a State
shall be a party, and in these that it shall
have original jurisdiction.
The question therefore to be determined
is simply this, whether the ease of McLeod
conics within the description of cases men
tioned in that section. It is clearly not in
cluded within any of them unless it is a
controversy between a State and a “ foreign
citizen or subject.” If it be sucli within
the meaning of the Constitution, then the
Supreme Court has original jurisdiction of
the controversy. It is to be remarked that
if this case comes within the operation ol
the clause, then every criminal proceed
ing against a foreigner, conics also within
it ; and the State, instead of having power
to punish foreigners for violations of its
laws, could be obliged to submit to the ju
risdiction of the Supreme Court.
It may however be said in reply to this,
and with great force, that the Constitution
in this respect merely adopted a general
rule, leaving to Congress to determine how
far the exercise of jurisdiction should be
exclusive, and to wiiat extent it should be
concurrent, and when as a general rule it
should be left to the States exclusively,
except on some great and pressing occa
sion.
The word “ controversy,” does not, at
first view, seem a proper one to include
criminal offences ; for a controversy, in
the usual acceptation ofthe term, is a case
in which opposing parties contend for their
respective claims before a tribunal ; such
as a suit at law. In respect of crimes, it
is often said that the party accused remains
passive, and waits for the charge to be
proved ; that he is treated as an individual
who lias deprived himself of his claim to
equality with others: —not, as one having
a controversy with equals, but as having
forfeited his rights, and become liable to
punishment: That the State ascertains
simply whether the criminal shall be pun
ished or not. This, it might be contended,
could not bo called a controversy between
parties.
Upon looking, however, into the history
of the time when the Constitution was
adopted, and to the debates of that period,
there are many and powerful reasons for
supposing that in the view of the framers
of the Constitution, the word controversy
was deemed broad enough to include this
case.
The proposition for a Convention having
come from Virginia, it was deemed fitting
to devolve upon some member from that
State the duty of stating in the form of res
olutions the ends to be arrived at in the pro
posed new form of government. This du
ty fell upon the distinguished Edmund Ran
dolph of that State, and the resolution re
lating to the Judiciary, it is stated among oth
er tilings, that the jurisdiction ofthe Nation
al Judiciary, should “extend to all ques
tions which may involve the national peace
and harmony.” The Convention then went
into the Committee of the whole, to con
sider the resolutions offered by Mr. Ran
dolph.
Subsequently, on motion of Mr. Ran
dolph and Mr. Madison, in Committee, a
resolution was introduceddiffering in some
respects from the one originally offered, but
retaining the words above quoted, and it
was agreed to by the Committee.
The Committee of the whole having at
last agreed to various resolutions which de
termined the principle to govern in the for
mation ofthe Constitution, those resolutions
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
were reported to the Convention, and the I
one relating to this subject, was presented [
in the form above expressed.
When the question came up before the j
Convention, Mr. Patterson of New Jersey,
who had been instructed by his State, pro
posed various substitutes, for the resolutions
reported to the Convention, and among them
one limiting the power of the national trib
unals over cases of foreigners to those of j
mere appeal ; but his resolution granting !
jurisdiction in this shape, expressly ac
knowledges the principle expressed in Mr.
Randolph’s resolution, so far as it included
the case in question. It declared that the
jurisdiction should extend to “ all cases in
which foreigners may he interested.” The
resolutions of Mr. Randolph as they came
from the Committee of tho Whole, and
those of Mr. Patterson, being in many res
spects essentially different, much debate
arose upon them, in the course of which
Mr. Hamilton who differed from both, offer
ed a set of resolutions as a substitute, which
were also considered. His resolution in
relation to the Judiciary conferred jurisdic
tion by way of appeal, “ in all cases, in
which citizens of foreign nations arc con
cerned.”
The Convention on the 18th July 1837,
after debate, decided to adopt the resolu
tion nem con, in the form originally pro
posed, declaring that jurisdiction should
extend to “all cases arising under the na
tional law, and to such other questions as
may involve the national peace and har
mony.”
The resolutions declaring this general
principle were submitted to a Committee
who were directed to prepare a Constitu
tion embracing all these principles.
The Committee reported the draft of a
Constitution in which they attempt to em
body this principle under the clause grant
ing jurisdiction to “ controversies between
a State or the citizens thereof, and foreign
States, citizens or subjects/’
As far as the declared intention of
the framers of the Constitution is concern
ed, the case of McLeod clearly conics with
in the danger which they sought to remedy,
and the word controversy is therefore to re
ceive such ati interpretation as gives effect
to this object, without doing violence to the
fair meaning of the word.
Congress in passing the Judiciary Act
under this clause, an Act which was ne
cessary to enable the Court to exercise the
jurisdiction conferred, shew that they did
not entertain the opinion that the word
| controversy applied merely to civil ca
! SOS.
It commences with saying that in all
controversies of a civil nature, the Court
shall, &c. There would be tautology in
this language, if the word controversy it
self applied only to cases of a civil nature,
and it may fairly be contended from the
history ofthe clause, and from this contem
poraneous interpretation of the word, that
controversies of a criminal as well as of a
civil nature, were within the scope of the
clause.
Such being the case, it only remains for
Congress to pass such laws as may give to
the Supreme Court, power to exercise the
jurisdiction conferred. This has been done
from time to time in other cases, as exigen
cies arose.
For instance, the Force Bill, as it is called,
which was passed when South Carolina
threatened the country with nullification,
provided for the removal of suits by citi
j zens against a Collector of the Customs
I (which had been previously maintained in
the State Courts,) into the Courts of the
United States. Those are cases arising
under the laws of the United States,” (its
revenue laws,) and consequently are with
in the express language of the clause.
The General Government in the case of
the Amistad, upon receiving the demand of
Spain for delivery of the negroes, watched
the proceedings in Admiralty, was present,
by its attorney in Court, to see that the law
was properly administered, and upon its
final decision, will execute the decree of
its National Court. The Court takes cog
nizance in botli cases, under authority of
the laws of Congress.
If the same power existed in the case of
McLeod, the United States would remove
the case now to its own tribunals ; or upon
sentence being pronounced, would appeal
to the United States Courts, and there have
the case reviewed and finally determined.
Unquestionably it is a case of sufficient
magnitude, in its probable results upon our
national interests, to be the subject of na
tional jurisdiction and control in all its
parts ; but under ourthcory of government
and the well known principles applied to the
Constitution, it cannot be touched by the
national institutions, unlsss power over it is
expressly or by necessary implication con
ferred in the Constitution and the mode o!
its exercise regulated by the laws ol Con
gress. The fact that it may involve the na
tion at large in a war, docs not help the ease ;
omitted in the Constitution, or in the Rgis- ,
lation of Congress.
Undoubtedly if Great Britain should at
tempt bv an invasion ofthe territory of- en
York to rescue McLeod, or afterwards to
hold her responsible for any punishment in
flicted upon him, it would be the duty oi
the whole nation, under its guarantees to
each State, to afford the State protection.
Section 4 of article 3 of the Constitution
expressly provides, that “the United States
shall protect each State against invasion,
and ifthe idea presented ot the word contro
versy, is not correct, there would be this
anomaly in our system, that the General
Government would be obliged to involve it-
self, in a war in relation to a case which it
had no authority to control, and which pos
sibly it had every inclination to arrange
upon an amicable footing.
In the case of South Carolina, there was
no power to remove the suit which involved
revenue questions, until an act ofCongress
was passed in relation to the subject ; and j
even if the Constitution did confer jurisdic- !
tion it could not be exercised until the mode |
and means had been pointed out by an act
of Congress. The absence of suoh an Act
cannot bo disputed, even if there were
ground for dispute upon the meaning and
scope of the word “controversy” in the case
referred to. The neglect to provide the
means of exercising jurisdiction would bo
quite as disastrous as the want of power to
do it.
On the whole, therefore, it may lie stated
that although at present it is not within the
power ofthe National Judiciary to arrest
the evil if it be, of allowing the proceedings
of New York in relation to McLeod, to run j
on to their final termination, yet the correc
tion of the evil is in the power of Congress.
They are soon to meet in an Extra ses
sion, it is said, —and unless the McLeod
case is sooner disposed of, it may become
their duty to pass an Act of the nature a
bove indicated.
I—JIMIKimiM in ’ll MIIIMIII
MISCELLANEOUS.
From Grant's London Journal.
RIGHTEOUS RETRIBUTION.
[The incidents contained in the following nar
rative happened at the close of the last century,
1 think perhaps about 1798 ; but the precise date
is of little importance for my purpose, which is
to relate the remarkable providential circumstar.-
| ces by which the perpetrator of a grave crime
! was discovered after the lapse of so many years.]
James M’Millan was a native of the
Highlands of Scotland ; he kept a small
chandler’s or huckster’s shop in the Bridge
gate Street, Glasgow. He was very igno
rant, and remarkable for his irritable tem
per and spiteful disposition. As neither he
nor his wife could read, there was a gar
dener named Mudie whom M Miilan cm-
ployed to keep his books, and transact mo- !
nev matters in debtor or creditor eases. In
the course of some of these settlements he
1 conceived the opinion that Mudie had
| wronged him to a small amount, and taxed
him with the fraud. This caused a violent
altercation between the two, in the course
of which M’Millan burst forth in horrid
imprecations, vowing that he never would
be contented till he had revenged himself
of Mudie. The latter retreated for safety,
as he feared from his knowledge of his an
tagonist’s passionateahd ungovernable tetn
| per, that he might be in danger of sustain
i ing serious injury ; and hearing that M -Mi 1 -
j lan had subsequently, after sufficient time
i bad elapsed to have allowed his choler to
! cool, repeated his dreadful threat, lie ap-
I plied for the protection of the law, and
j M’Millan was compelled to find security j
I for keeping the peace.
The garden in which Mudie was employ- 1
cd was situated iu Finnieston, and there j
were few houses then on what was called j
Anderston Walk. The space between the
foot of Jamaica Street and Anderston was
quite a country road, and not even lighted
with the old-fashioned glimmering oil-
lamps. One night, in the most remote part
of this road, Mudie was found senseless
and bleeding to death. He was taken to
where assistance could be procured, and
only survived long enough to state that
M’Millan had waylaid him—and spring
ing from concealment from under a hedge,
came behind him, knocked him down, and
inflicted the injuries of which he was con
scious that lie was dying.
The declaration of Ihe dying inan, cor
roborated as it was by the former transae
tions, left not the slightest doubt in the mind
of any one that M Miilan was tko actual
murderer ; and if farther confirmation had
been required, it was supplied by the fact
that he had absconded immediately altci
the deed had been perpetrated. Every
possible means were adopted for bis appre
hension, but without success ; rewards,
advertised descriptions, and everything else
failed to bring forward the accused, and af
ter a number of years she affair was for
gotten, or only remembered as an event
that had once happened.
About ten years afterwards a riot of a
serious nature arose in a house of improp
er reputation in some part of London, in
which a man’s life was placed in danger
from a stab which he had received from one
of the watchmen who had been called in to
quell the disturbance. The rioters were
taken to the watchliouse, and at the same
time it was thought expedient by the consta
ble of the night to place the watchman in
custody until the case could be heard by a
magistrate.
On the following morning, when the par
ties were carried before the magistrate, the
.11, .1. KAPPEL, Printer.
ease was heard at great length, and the of
fenders fined and punished accordingly ;
and with regard to the watchman wh; l had
used the dangerous weapon, it was shown
that he had been most furiously attacked by
the people in the house ; and his own plea,
while he admitted having inflicted the
wound, was that he had been compelled to
do so in self-defence. Mr. Colquhoun, the
celebrated author of a “ Treatise on the
Police of the Metropolis 1 ” and several
works on national economy and statistics,
was the sitting magistrate before whom the
precognition took place ; but not being sat
isfied with this defence, censured the con
duct of the man severely, and gave it as
his decided opinion that the guardianship
of the night ought not to be entrusted to
men who had not proper control of their
temper ; but at the same time, seeing tlmt
no life had been sacrificed, he dismissed the
watchman with a reprimand and a caution
as to future behaviour. The watchman
had scarcely bowed to the bench in ac
knowledgment of the acquittal, when the
magistrate called out to one of the officers,
to “ stop that man.” This was done, and
the watchman was immediately given into
custody on a charge of murder. The an
nouncement struck every one present with
amazpment ; but the order of the magis
■ trate was, of course, instantly obeyed.
Mr. Colquhoun had been in business as
| a merchant in Glasgow—had passed
through the different grades of office in the
city corporation, and had attained the hon
lor of filling the chief civic chair. He was,
i however, unfortunate in his affairs, and left.
| for London, high qualifications having pre-
[ viously recommended him to the office
I of stipendiary magistrate under the Metro.
’ politan I’olico Act. ilo happened to have
i known familiarly, from some cause oroth
| er, the person of the alleged murderer ot
Mudie when ho presided in Glasgow, and
I notwithstanding the change often years, he
jat a glance discovered in the offending
! watchman the long-sought-for M’Millan, the
| murderer.
The magistrate with little trouble, in a
short time obtained as many as eight or
nine persons in London who were able to
identify the man as being the James M’Mil
lan who had absconded,&for whom rewards
had been offered ; and on the evidence lie
i was sent down overland under on escort to
| Glasgow, to take his trial for the murder.
I lie was found guilty, and suffered the e.\-
! trome penalty of the offence ; and accord
j ing to the existing law, his body was given
up to the college for dissection. Many
! years after, and perhaps still, might be
j seen the skeleton of the unhappy man,
! forming one of the extensive collections of
skeletons of criminals, that had accumula
ted in the college under the professorship of
l)r. Jeffery.
During the services of the 46th regiment
in America, General Washington was intia
ted into masonry in their lodge. \\ hen
war broke out between the States and the
mother country, he became divided from
the brothers of his adoption, in feeling—in
communion of soul, he was their brother
still. The masonic chest of the 46th, by
the chance of war, fell into the hands of the
Americans; they reported the circutn
stanc i to Gen Washington, “ho directed
| that a guard of honor, under the command
i o f a distinguished officer, should take
j charge of the chest, with many articles of
\ value blunging to the 46th, and return
| thep the regiment. The surprise, the
i /feelings of both officers and men may be
; imagined, when they perceived the flag of
I truce that announced this elegant compli-
I ment from their noble opponent. The
| guard of honor, with the flutes playing a
| sacred march—the chest containing the
j constitution and implements of the craft
borne aloft equally by Englishmen and
Americans, who lately engaged in the strife
of war—now marched through the enfilad
ed ranks of the gallant regiment that, with
presented arms and colors, hailed this glo-
I rious act by cheers. When in Dominica.
S in ISOS, the 46th was attacked by a French
! force, which if gallantly repelled ; but in
j the action had the misfortune again to lose
ti, c masonic chest, which the enemy suc
ceeded in securing on board their fleet,
without knowing its contents. Three
years afterward the French Government,
at the earnest request of the officers who
had commanded the expedition, returned
the chest w ith several complimentary pre
sents.
The Dog population oftbe United States
is estimated at about two millions, and the
expense of keeping them at upwards of tea
millions of dollars per annum.
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