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Martinsburg, Berkeley County, Virginia
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The editor of the American Citizen defends Chief Justice Marshall against attacks by Democratic papers, excerpting a scandalous paragraph from the Baltimore Whig and decrying the lack of decorum. He suggests a conspiracy by a few men in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York to overthrow the old order, vowing to expose party malefactors.
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The editor of the American Citizen (a democratic paper) taking notice of the infamous attacks made by certain democratic papers on Chief Justice Marshall has expressed himself in a manner that does him infinite credit. After extracting a scandalous paragraph from a Baltimore paper entitled the Whig, he goes on thus:
Surely proof more ample than his patience, than his copious and elaborate opinions is necessary to warrant this audacious assault on the chief justice of the supreme Court of the United States. What has become of the order and decorum, the sober reflection and the sedate reasoning for which the U. S. are distinguished, when this violence and outrage can pass without notice?
After several proper remarks he concludes thus:
If however I may be allowed to express my opinion, it is that the chief justice is not the real object of attack, but that in Baltimore, Philadelphia and New-York a combination of a few men (and they are very few) exists to throw off the old and introduce a new order of things. I make no pretensions to the character of a prophet, but I beg the reader to bear the remark in mind. For the present I will only add that I stand on my old ground; that I have an eye on some bad men of our party in the other states who are co-operating with a few dupes in this city, and that in due time I will expose them. The people at large know but little of what is now doing and perhaps it is well that they do not.
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Defense Of Chief Justice Marshall Against Democratic Attacks
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Supportive Of Marshall And Critical Of Partisan Conspiracy
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