Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-06-14

killed and 500 disabled. The enemy car
ried OF large numbers, but left 200 dead
on the field. Their loss must have greatly
exceeded ours. Several Virginia regiments
were in Encouragement, at least the Sec
Ond, Third, Fifth and Eighth. The Second
and s'bIOOdy Third" were in Mflroys brig
ade, which lie said TO have suffered severe
ly. Tue Fifth and Eighth we believe are
in Sehenck's brigade which suffered less
severely but did good service
short Sermon. chiefly Tor the Benent
OTEhe wheeling Press.
EEH4.--Eot every one that saith LORD Lord, shall
enter the kingdonL-AAII., VII, II,
Ii is not every one that howis '.Constitu-
tuition" that means Constitution. They
genernuy mean ''let Us alone" When
Breckuridge was in secret league with
ripeniDg treason to the Constitution and
Government of the United States, yet hold
lug his position 10 the Senate, be was tue
self-elected guardian of the Constitution
and watched over and protected it with
more than parental solicitude. Whenever
buiuE nc " OG OuuS W pIUScIk IuE Sulp
of State against the impending storm, any
thing that could circuwveut tue traitors,
Brock and his Cellow-conspirators always
Paraded the Constitution, and declared
that auy such action would be gu infrac-
tion of tina: sacred instrument. This wac
the howl of the traitorous pack iu both
Houses. The Constitution was all that
was the matter with the Southern Senators
and Representatives who withdrew iu
body aud went home TO buckle gu the ar
NOR of rebeIIiou-to defend it from in
friDgement? mol to destroy it aud ali that
beOi6cent system of government which it
upheld aud yet upholds. They did not
mean Constitution. From greatest to least
they only meant ''let US aloue till we get
everything ready.
All this time the eouspirators aud their
Gympsthisers in the North aud along the
border were dresdfuIIy troubled for fear
the Constitution would be violated. The
IRRESPONSIBLE prinIs too all over the country
shared the anxiety. They saw 10 posi-
BILE way TO save the Constitution but by
destroying it and letting the rebellious
States Ay on at tangent and set the laws
and authority of the United State at def
anee; because if this was not permitted
the South would not get its rights, aud if
the South didn't have its rights of course
the Constitution would be violated.
They didn't mean Constitution, did they +?
Now that the war he's been progressing "a
year and the South is getting its rights
and the Constitution is in fair way TO be
saved, a few dfsinterested patriots like that
precious scouudrel YaIandihgham, and that
valuable rascal Voorhies, and some others
Of ths same ilk, aided by some big news.
papers and some very insignificant ones,
cling, as the old man of the sea chung to
Sinbad, to the "Constitution as it is''-
which they understand to mean, as the
rebels want it. They freeze to it, they
grow to it-they embrace it as the anacop-
dA embraces the antelope-they cherish,
defend and protect it as JEFF Davis would
have them do-they reverence it as Yam
coy does-it is as sacred to them as 1t is 10
Wigfall or John Letcher-in short they
love it Is they love their Whisky or polit
ical power.
They have even organized party which
they call the democratic party as restored
and viudiCated by the caucus which me,
in Washington. All their love for the Con.
otitutiOu is to be thus concentrated and in
tehBi6ed. Aud yet all the while thew dom,
mean Constitution. Nothing of the kind
They only mean 'let us alone" Thew
only mean to organize, if possible. a tory
party at the north and ON the border that
.ahaH use its whole power and influence to
weaken and divide loyal sentiment, and be
enabied.to dictate terms Of peace for afailipp
and helpless conspiracy. They profess TO
want the rebels put down, but it must be
done sconStitutionally" -that is, they must
rot be hurt. The government must shoot
with tow WadS and pierce With padded
bayonetS. 1t must use Cancellation and
not ganPoWder. It must not dispense and
break ap rebel armies, because somebody
might Be hurt, and somebody's rights
(ighttU be . traitOr to his government
right to shoot is defenders and threaten its
0xiStodSe5J night be- GndFedeh6d Oh. The
goyorum6dt must Fssist the assadlts made
oait With its baads tied, booaa6s tktrlE
ViSs the Constitution couIdd's bspre sssrved