pletely within the definition of despotism-a union of legislative, executive, and judicial powers. But this bill, sir, does not stop here; its provisions are a refinement upon despotism, and present an image of the most fearful tyranny. Even in despotisms, though the monarch legislates, judges, and executes, yet he legislates openly; his laws though oppressive, are known; they precede the offence, and every man who chooses may avoid the penalties of disobedience. Yet he judges and executes by proxy, and his private interests or passions do not inflame the mind of his deputy.

"But here the law is so closely concealed in the same mind that gave it birth—the crime is 'exciting the suspicions of the President'-that no man can tell what conduct will avoid that suspicion; a careless word, perhaps misrepresented or never spoken, may be sufficient evidence; a look may destroy; an idle gesture may insure punishment; no innocence can protect, no circumspection can avoid the jealousy of suspicion. Surrounded by spies, informers, and all that infamous herd which fatten under laws like this, the unfortunate stranger will never know either of the law of accusation or of the judgment, until the moment it is put in execution; he will detest your tyranny and fly from a land of delators, inquisitors, and spies. This, sir, is a refinement upon the detestable contrivance of the Decemvirs. They hung the tables of their laws so high, that few could read them; a tall man, however, might reach —a short one might climb and learn their contents; but here the law is equally inaccessible to high and low, safely concealed in the breast of its author; no industry or caution can penetrate this recess, and attain a knowledge of its provisions, nor, even if they

could, as the rule is not permanent, would it at all

"So obviously do the constitutional objections present themselves, that their existence cannot be denied, and two wretched subterfuges are resorted to, to remove them out of sight. In the first place, it is said, the bill does not contemplate the punishment of any crime, and therefore the provisions in the Constitution, relative to criminal proceedings and judiciary powers, do not apply. But have the gentlemen, who reason thus, read the bill, or is every thing forgotten, in our zealous hurry to pass it? What are the offences upon which it is to operate? Not only the offence of being 'suspected of being dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States,' but also that of being 'concerned in any treasonable or secret machinations against the government thereof❞— A treasonable and this, we are told, is no crime. machination against the government is not the subject of criminal jurisprudence! Good heaven! to what absurdities does not an over-zealous attachment to particular measures lead us! In order to punish a particular act, we are forced to say, that treason is no crime, and plotting against our government is no offence! And to support this fine hypothesis, we are obliged to plunge deeper into absurdity, and say, that the acts spoken of in the bill are no crimes, and therefore the penalty contained in it is not a punishment, but merely a prevention; that is to say, we invite strangers to come amongst us; we declare solemnly, that government shall not prevent them; we entice them over by the delusive prospects of advantage; in many parts of the Union we permit them to hold lands, and give them other advantages

while they are waiting for the period at which we have promised them a full participation of all our rights. An unfortunate stranger, disgusted with tyranny at home, thinks he shall find freedom here; he accepts our conditions; he puts faith in our promises; he vests his all in our hands; he has dissolved his former connections and made your country his own; but while he is patiently waiting the expiration of the period that is to crown the work, entitle him to all the rights of a citizen -the tale of a domestic spy, or the calumny of a secret enemy, draws on him the suspicions of the President, and, unheard, he is ordered to quit the spot he had selected for his retreat, the country which he had chosen for his own, perhaps the family which was his only consolation in life; he is ordered to retire to a country whose government, irritated by his renunciation of its authority, will receive only to punish him—and all this, we are told, is no punishment!

"Let not gentlemen flatter themselves that the fervor of the moment can make the people insensible to these aggressions. It is an honest, noble warmth, produced by an indignant sense of injury. It will never, I trust, be extinct, while there is a proper cause to excite it. But the people of America, sir, though watchful against foreign aggressions, are not careless of domestic encroachment: they are as jealous, sir, of their liberties at home, as of the power and prosperity of their country abroad: they will awake to a sense of their danger. Do not let us flatter ourselves, then, that these measures will be unobserved or disregarded: do not let us be told, sir, that we excite a fervor against foreign aggressions only to establish tyranny at home; that, like the arch

traitor, we cry, 'Hail Columbia !' at the moment we are betraying her to destruction; that we sing out, 'Happy Land!' when we are plunging it in ruin and disgrace; and that we are absurd enough to call ourselves 'free and enlightened,' while we advocate principles that would have disgraced the age of Gothic barbarity, and establish a code, compared to which the ordeal is wise, and the trial by battle is merciful and just."

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