excepted; and that the Congress will not levy direct taxes within this State, but when the moneys arising from the imposts and excises shall be insufficient for the public exigencies, nor then until Congress shall first have made a requisition upon this State to assess, levy, and pay the amount of such requisition, made agreeably to the census fixed in the said Constitution, in such way and manner as the Legislature of this State shall judge best; but that in such case, if the State shall neglect or refuse to pay its proportion, pursuant to such requisition, then the Congress may assess and levy this State's proportion, together with interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the time at which the same was required to be paid. Done in Convention at Poughkeep sie, in the County of Duchess, in the State of New York, the 26th day of July, in the year of our Lord, 1788. [Here follow amendments recommended by the Convention.] THE ACT OF VIRGINIA. We, the delegates of the people of Virginia, duly elected in pursuance of a recommendation from the General Assembly, and now met in Convenion, having fully and fairly investigated and discussed the proceedings of the Federal Convention, and being prepared, as well as the most mature deliberation hath enabled us to decide thereon, do, in the name and on behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression; and that every power not granted thereby remains with them. and at their will; that, therefore, no right of any denomination can be cancelled, abridged, restrained or modified, by the Congress, by the Senate, or by the House of Representatives, acting in any capacity, by the Presi dent, or any department or officer of the United States, except in those instances in which power is given by the Constitution for these purposes; and that, among other essential rights, the liberty of conscience and of the press cannot be cancelled, abridged, restrained or modified by any authority of the United States. With these impressions, with a solemn appeal to the searcher of all hearts for the purity of our intentions, and under the conviction that whatsoever imperfections may exist in the Constitution, ought rather to be ex EDITOR'S TABLE. -The New York Times thus characterizes the Democrat: "He has one quality in common with the negro, one which more than aught else has contributed to the degradation of this unfortunate race it is impossible to insult him, or rouse in him any feeling of resentment." Some of our Democratic cotemporaries are in very bad temper at this characterization; but is it not, alas! just, when applied to a majority of the leaders of the party? Have they not submitted, and counselled submission in others, to indignities and outrages which would disgrace a negro? How many of the so-called leaders of the party have submitted with the docility of asses to the Republicans for almost four years? We blush to think of it. But we do not complain that the Times despises such cowardly creatures. Every brave and honest man ought to despise them. When we think of the thousands of men who have been illegally immersed in bastiles by Seward and Lincoln, and see the heads still on the shoulders of these besotted tyrants, we blush for our countrymen. When men are denied the protection of the laws, their own good right arms become the law for self-defense, not only de facto, but jure divino. This is the first law, the sacred law, which none but a nation of cowards will hesitate to use! -The Democratic campaign poetry of the present day is far in advance of the Republican in point of spirit and literary merit. Song rarely flourishes well in an atmosphere of lies and fraud. The genuine enthusiasm which is essential to good song writing, cannot be found among a party who know themselves to be in the wrong; hence, all the Republican songs of this campaign are dull and pointless, compared with the pathos and humor of the Democratic songs. The following, adapted to the air of Burns' inimitable song, "A man's a man for a' thal," is excellent : THE DEMOCRATIC CREED. AIR-" A man's a man for a' that." We still despotic power defy, The traitor band, and all that, We love the Constitution, too, In spite of threats and all that, Shall still be ours for all that. State rights we ever will uphold, Free speech, free press, and all that, Yes, all that, and all that, Shall rob us yet of all that. From bayonet, oath,. and all that, Yes, all that, and all that, We claim and will have ail that; Have still the right to all that. Amalgamate and all that, Loves freedom more than all that. We love it still for all that. The following is an awful picture of the heartlessness and brutality of Lincoln. It is based upon a scene that actually transpired on the battle-field of Antietam, where the President, in the presence of Gen. McClellan, asked for the singing of a certain negro song, by a man whom he praised as "the best singer of negro songs in America :" LINCOLN AT ANTIETAM. Dead upon dead were huddled thick, But carelessly rode Old Abe along, But carelessly rode Old Abe along, Mothers, daughters, sisters wives, The following has a mild touch of the rising spirit of resistance to Lincoln's despotic sway: TRIAL BY JURY. We're coming, Father Abraham, two million voters more, To exile thee, on this great plea, To Massachusetts shore. Thy crimes are great To ruin it you've tried ; In bastiles strong, Held fast by wrong, To fell disease they bowed; They stood for us, And vengeance firm we've vowed. Their spirits now In that bright land above; With mem'ry green, In column strong, Against the tyrant's might. Then rally now, Come freemen bow, And vow before the shrine; You ne'er will cease Until blest peace Shall o'er your country shine. We give below a brief poem on the branding of soldiers with a hot iron on the back, a custom which was generally adopted a few months ago by the surgeons in Lincoln's hire. The following order explains this strange practice: } "PROV. MARSH. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, D. C., Aug. 19. "Doctor Z. II. Whitmore, Surgeon Board of Enrollment, Springfield Illinois: "DOCTOR: In addition to my suggestion to mark all rejected recruits and substitutes, I would suggest that all accepted recruits and substitutes be marked thus: I, in small of back. "This will, I think, prevent, to a great extent, the practice of bounty jumping. "Your friend, "J. H. BAXTER, U.S.V. "Chf. Med. Off. Pro. Mar. Gen. Bur." So it seems that this atrocious practice of branding in the back, with a hot iron, or with equally painful caustic, all rejected recruits, had its inspiration in Washington. All who volunteer to enter the army, but who, on account of physical debility are rejected, are, according to this order, to be branded with the letter "I" in the small of the back. We have little respect for the man who does not instantly kill the scoundrel who attempts to commit such an outrage upon his person. Any man deserving to live would resign his office rather than execute such an infamous command. THE SOLDIER'S BRAND. Aye, brand him on the brawny back! And brand him as you brand the slave! Brand, so the world may call him knave! Brand, for he bears a soldier's pack! Bring forth the iron, seething hot, And thrust it in the quivering flesh, Be sure the mark be plain and fresh, His blouse shall hide the accursed spot! Go, forge and heat your lettered steel, Apply it to the chosen part; You scar, more deep, upon his heart, The hate which men for tyrants feel! Now is your day and now's your hour, And amid the dread clangor of war there is no lack of humor, and of laughter, at the follies and blunders of the Administration. The following is an example. The black bird that nipped off McCleilan's nose is a capital hit at Lincoln's negro policy, which made the removal of McClellan necessary⚫ A SONG OF GREENBACKS. Sing a song of greenbacks, A pocket full of straw; Flung away in war; Counting out the money; Was eating bread and honey Was following our foes-- And nipped off his nose. The following little hit is well done : THE MODERN MAN OF THESSALY. And blinded both his eyes; And when he saw his eyes were bunged, Old "Mother Goose" has been brought back to earth by the shock of battle, as witness the following: One, two, Abe won't do, Three, four, Any more; We're in a fix, Nine, ten, Mac and Pen, Eleven, twelve, Must Lincoln shelve; Thirteen, fourteen, Victory courting; Fifteen, sixteen, Fortune fixed in; Seventeen, cighteen, For this we're waiting, Nineteen, twenty, Peace and Plenty. Or the following: BLACK SHEER Baa! baa! Lincoln, have you any wool? Yes, many, have I, many heads full ; None for the master, none for the dame, All for Columby, to have and to maintain. The Republican campaign literature has nothing of this humor and good nature. It is all grim and heavy, and stupid, and grates upon the senses, like a saw cutting a bone. -The Louisville Journal, a paper which has, unaccountably, supported Lincoln's Administration up to a recent date, has been frightened from that support by the brutality of the Federal rule in Kentucky. The Journal gives the following account of the way Gen. Paine administers the mild government of Abraham Lincoln in that State : "Citizens had been arrested and thrown into prison without a show of trial, and no record of a single charge preferred against them could be found among any of the oflicial papers in the office. Prisoners were executed without a hearing, and often without any definite charge being preferred against them. Forty-three graves, said to be those of executed prisoners, were counted at Paducah. Among this number were two men, named Nolin and Taylor, of well known toyalty, who by some act offended the general in power, and a tragic death was their doon. To show the manner in which the executions were made, we have a statement from the evidence given by Hiram R. Enoch, Quartermaster of the 132d regiment Illinois volunteer infantry. He says that he heard of four citizens being executed without the shadow of a trial-Kesterton, Taylor, Mathey and Hess. Col. McChesney, commanding at Mayfield, by the appointment and acting under the instructions of General Paine, told him, about the 1st of September, 1864, that he had shot seven men at Mayfield, and had one more in the guard-house that he intended to execute the next day. He said that he gave them no trial, and boasted that one of |