Mr. Cooper defends his earlier application to President Adams for a position by listing the offenses the President had not yet committed. Among them, . . . he had not yet sanctioned the abolition of trial by Jury in the Alien law, or entrenched his public character behind the legal barriers of the Sedition law.

“. . . nor had he yet interferred as President of the United States to influence the decisions of a Court of Justice. A stretch of authority which the Monarch of Great Britain would have shrunk from; interference without Precedent, against Law and against Mercy!’‘