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suffer. The gigantic strides which have already been taken, in perfect consonance with the past habits of the President, to pass uncensored and to be followed up, by farther strides in the same direction, it will be exceedingly weak and ridiculous in them to complain, if, in the course of a few years, they see an armed force stationed in Washington, to overawe the proceedings of their Senate & House of Representatives, and the peaceful and happy provisions of their Constitution suspended by the introduction of martial law. It is in this train and this connexion with the pact, that we regard, with serious alarm, the ministerial document which has been placed before the public. It has already seized upon, and blazoned by the government papers, as a splendid production; as refuting the opinion of the Supreme Court, with the certainty of demonstration; and, under its inspiring influence, the Richmond Enquirer has not hesitated to stigmatize that opinion as a gross absurdity. The instance, though of no other consequence, seems to shew the purpose to which the Executive paper is to be directed, and the use intended to be made of it. It is to degrade the Supreme Court, and to prepare the way for the nullification of its sentences, wherever they shall thwart the Executive will. Are the people of the United States prepared for this result? If they be, farewell to the Constitution of the United States. But let us turn to this "splendid production," and see how far it merits the eulogies which have been bestowed upon it. As a literary effort it strikes us as excessively heavy, cumbersome & laboured, and deeply embued with a soporific solemnity, ominous of speedy oblivion. There are those who think that whatever is long, and grave, and decorous, and abundant of quotation, must be necessarily wise, and deep, and learned, and logical: and there are hundreds who will never have the patience to wade through this -- Serbonian bog, we were about to call it, -- who will talk, with lifted brows, of its vastness and profundity, and imagine that they see in its outpouring the exhalations of the giant who is fabled to lie beneath the mighty morass. strikeout But it is not with Executive literature that we are disposed to deal. We propose to look at this paper as an argument proceeding from Executive authority, intended to satisfy the community that the late