Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-06-25

yesterday mornipg must have reached q
very tender spct;s II gets into fns rage
in u eve6ing, ediaeB ovef ourl 6tesumbtion
10 Plttins such int Foga tqties eailsius an
''arregan. aud imhnienk cox 6mb, q and
tail.9 ab6ef9a dutsn- thibgs chat haze no
possible relation to the questions We put
to it. But it does not answer any of the
interrOgatoriez. Not one. 1t gets furious,
as Sapqy one whp isgplayisgI bad, deep
game does when HeAis completed to show
ihissla6as hagf4es =dpFoaf 10 divert
attpntion from the real issnes ThiSiFesoFt,
the resort Of the genus lelinds, wont win.
u put. 9 body out for 4 moment, OF Two,
but the, effects are not permanent. We beg
orr iraseible neighbOr TO keep cool and
collected while we talk tohim little, and
explain this business he has got so excited
about. -. 6as
1g'The Wheeling Press everybody knows,
who ever read a copy of ii, is the most
..constitutionalH Of all .constitutionaI'i
prints. The great horror of it's lie has
been the fear that the President would do
Tor permit something ia tie prosecution Of
the war unauthorized By The strict inter.
Iprstatian of the Coustilntion-sucha ASIDE
priying some Of the traitors in JED. Davis
army OF life, liberty Or property without
due process of law" u has all along
wanted the Federal Government to fight
! its part OF the war under theirestrictions
of that clause, whileit wasn't very partic-
plar how the rebels did their part Of il,
1 because the rebels we're not engaged In
4 lpreserving the Constitution, and the Pres
ident was. We merely state the attitude
,of the Pres in order that it may have the
full benefit of it in this connection. In
I this frame of mind, the Press5 received a
communication about SHE True oonstltu-
Ettopal Theory Of the Powers Of the Presi-
dent in War; No doubt at first blush,
r judging from thecaption, 1.-THE Pres thought
this was something after its own hear, but
q closer Inspection showed that the wrl-
ter's Constitutional theory didnst tally with
theirs at ALI; in fact, that it had caught d
1 tartar of the sa1agest kind. At frat, we
, imagine, the Court didn't exactly know
itself, or know what 70 do with this trou-
i bIesome customer. But the writer was a
! gentleman who could not be denied a place
in their columns, and they concluded to
, make the best they. could out of bad bar
, Egain.g For, be it observed, as we shall
) hereafter show by an extract, the commu-
t HfcatioH utterly demolishes everything tie
Press ever said its life about The oonstitu.
E tutiOnal powers and dutieso of the Rresi.
dent: It does not leave 1t d dry sod to
5 stand on. Howto get out Of the uuplea-
: SAINT predicameut, which even the, Press
/, could nOthelp seeing, 1T hadigo itself in
. to q That was the question. sThe fair and
Q manly thing for it to have done would have
! been TO have published the letter at least
/ without comment, ik not with disclaim-
/ er; but the writer's arguments were SO un-
answera5le that 1t could not afford to dis
. sent from them, Audacity, which is said
to be '.the thing that wins" came to the
: Press relief, as it had often done before.
j A bold trontiis half the battle; 50 apu,
! one on, and since II could not. get ont OF
f lpublishiug the letter it determined TO
+ make good thing out of it if it could.
Accordingly it heralded the appearance OF
the communication byithis paragraph:
: "0n Monday mornings powerful State
s lpRperWill appear in the Pres5, discussing
s the unconstitutional poWetseof the President
IN putting down theE rebellion, from the
able pensot John Heermans, Esq, who
ties 81 mis- ce H 1 me
iuithslfuture, beia regular contributor ID
the columns of the Press This article
Will De- the u. sommeneement. We recon-
man Let moi. its isne, ~ S dsss5 ,as9Aan s