But to this "Camden" article, the National Gazette retorted that while humanity might be better pleased with the attitude towards the law adopted by the Judges of the Eastern Circuit, "they too have, tho' in a delicate manner, passed sentence of unconstitutionality on the invalid law";[1] and while "we do not mean to muffle up the Judges any more than Congress in the cloak of infallibility, we wish to see both parties amply clad, that is to say, with the garb of wisdom and righteousness." A month later, this Anti-Federalist paper, in noting "several circumstances highly interesting to the United States" which had marked the session of Congress just closed, said editorially: "The decision of the Judges against the constitutionality of an Act in which the Executive had concurred with the Legislative departments is the first instance in which that branch of the government has withstood the proceed-
- ↑ National Gazette, April 23, May 11, 1792; Boston Gazette, May 28, 1792; New York Daily Advertiser, May 14. 1792; Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser, May 11, 1792; a writer in Claypoole's Daily Advertiser, April 16, 1792, expressed the hope that the Judges "may do the same with the national bank" statute, recently enacted by Congress.