Alexandria Advertiser And Commercial Intelligencer

The petition of the gentlemen of the bar of Pennsylvania, as well democrats as federalists, is said to have excited surprise amongst certain folks at Washington. If this document was surprising to them, what must the late Message of Governor M'Kean have been! It must have been amazing—astonishing.

"What," says Dr. L—n, "is our Governor about to quit us—is he reverting to the doctrines of the 'old school?' If not, how can we reconcile his present with his late principles and practice? The following sentences convey a most severe censure on my senatorial conduct in voting for the repeal of the late judiciary act—nay, on the majority in the Senate of the United States.

"For the State of Pennsylvania to pass an act, declaring it incompatible on a person to hold at the same time an office of the State and the United States, the Governor says, would be 'unnecessary, inexpedient and ALARMING to all persons holding OFFICES DURING GOOD BEHAVIOUR—the tenure of such commissions ought not to depend ON EVERY GALE THAT BLOWS.'

By this his Excellency must mean 'the gale' which we have been 'blowing up' in Senate. This is not a very decent insinuation, Mr. Governor, against your fellow labourers in the 'rough of democra-cy.' But his Excellency continues—The Legislature cannot vacate or impair a contract solemnly made between the common-wealth and an individual.

This indeed is fine doctrine to the sovereign people—Why, most assuredly, the old Governor imagines he is once more a judge, or is about coming again to his old federal principles. He goes on to say

."The office may be abolished in manner civil: but the officer say cannot be removed without being convicted a malfeasance in office." By this is rank federal doctrine. It is precisely what G. Morris Tracy, Hillhouse, &c. have been preaching to us so long, but happily without effect—Ca ira, Ca ira. Governor, you have been a judge, and therefore are interested in the question. Perhaps, too, you are looking to a seat as Chief Justice on the bench of the Supreme Court of the U. States—a bench we shall soon purify when we have turned the inferior judges adrift! No, no, may it please your Ex-cellency, we shall not consult you—down, down it must go—away with circuit and all other courts—reason and liberty for ever, says Dr. L—n."