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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