Another Radical Usurpation

The dispatches íroru Washington gving the Corgressional proceedings told na n day or two siaco, that Mr. Bingham had called up bis bill providing lor llie mode of deturmiuiug thu ratifieation ot ainendments to (ha Constiiution of the Uüited States ami that it had passed iinder a suspension of the rules. The measure, as usual, is hineyed over with a very sweet sounding tule, bilt the followiog synopsis of the infauious act shows what it really is : " Tl. e first scction makes it the duty of the Exeoutive of each State, whose Legislature Bhall have ratified a proposöd amendniüut, to certify forti) with suoh ratilic;ilion to the Scoretary of Stato of the United Statos. The seoond seotion makes it unlawlul fcr any State üfficer to certify thereatter nny rèpeal of such ratifioatioD, utilees an amendiuent for the repeal shall have been first proposed by Cougress, and directa tha Sacpetary uf Stato not to mnke a record thcreof. 'J'ha third section prescribes the penalty for an attempted ropeal of sucli ratifioatioo bv State authoriiy, as imprisonoMDt from one to ten yeare, and Qne from 82,000 to 810,000." An efl'ort i- here made to deSne and limit tho duties of inemhers of the State Legislature, and to íix a penalty for disobedience most oulrngeous and ofamoxis ii) its character. The measure is one of tvio most bold and imwarrunted attempts at usurpa'ion vet indulged in by this more than infauious Congress. -