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Rh and expressed the hope that they might hold unconstitutional other Federal legislation:

The General Advertiser, owned in Philadelphia by Benjamin F. Bache and strongly hostile to the Federal Party, said:

Never was the word "impeachment" so hackneyed, as it has been since the spirited sentence passed by our Judges on an unconstitutional law. The high-fliers in and out of Congress, and the very humblest of their humble retainers, talk of nothing but impeachment! impeachment! impeachment! As if, forsooth. Congress were wrapped up in the cloak of the infallibility which has been torn from the shoulders of the Pope; and that it was damnable heresy