invasion, the public safety may require it’ The tritest objection is, that the writ according to the charter, must be confined to cases from the ordin arisng from the ordinances. Just so. If the writ was not issued upon the direction and rules of ordinances, what would govern it? Does the circuit and s[u]preme courts of the , issue writs of upon the laws of the states or upon the laws of Spain, Portugal, or the ? Does the Supreme Court of the exercise the right of habeas Corpus upon the laws of the , or upon the acts of the several States, or upon the edicts <​an ukase​> of the Emperor Nicholas of Russia? Again, the Municipal <​Court​> of , consists of several persons whereas the circuit court is one man only and <​the​> world has yet to learn that a “little brief authority” is as Judiciously exercised by one man as by six. Why, the good old <​Law​> book says “in the midst of counsellors there is safety.”