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the boasted shield of the liberties & rights of the poor and the rich, and the constitution itself, the great palladium of our republic, are to be displaced and annihilated whenever they stand in the way of executive pleasure; and without a struggle, without one redeeming effort, we are to slide off silently, quietly and submissively from the ground of a free republic which we now occupy, to that of an unlimited dictatorship in which our nominal President to say sic volo, sic jubeo. The adherents of Executive power may affect to Smile at this as extravagant and unfounded prophecy: but we will ask any cool and unprejudiced man in the community, if it be not the natural, the unavoidable consequence of yielding to the President the undisputed power