The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Fayetteville, N.C.) 1864-186?, 1864-02-10

ABsoLUT1sM.-The following extract IS from
the columns Of the Petersburg ErpreSs, an
is worthy of perusal:-
We have before us at this moment Viz
ginia journal, the very oldest one in The South,
possessing reputation of the very first order,
and a popularity and influence not inferior to
any othcr-pubIishel in cur capital, and cir
culating in every direction through the land
and in its leading editorial, we sec with
amazement the very case, the supposition o.
which, or the Axe g it, We heIe little way
back to be irrcconcilsabIc with the spirit and
genius of our institutions and the character
of our people, as it is was, say one, two and
three years ego. 1t is therein distinctly as
serted that ''the success Of the cause is en-
! uurr;iscd by the tramlncs OF Il Constitution
designed and constructed for the develop
. ment of people in times of peace, but which
fetSers the present conflict Of life and death" :"
The Constitution, it Seems, was intended
only to dispense its benefits in ti1pes of Peace.
This, to say the least Of it, is strange idea
There is nothing in the instrument itself that
by the remetest and most arbitrary con
struction can be interpreted into such an
intention, and certainty there is every thing
in the circumstances under which it was
| framed and adopted to Indicate that it was
designed to operate we'll in times of war as
in times Of peace for the country WAS on the
very brink of war when it was framed and
accepted, as was we'll known at the ti1ae to
its framess. When the Permanent Govern
nscnt was organized, Of which the Constitu-
ton is the life and soul, the country was in
the very midst of way, which had already
been wagcd on gigantic scale for more than
six months, and Yet nothing was then said OF
thought about its being designed only for
peaceful Developments. The truth is, the
Constitution and the Goverpn?ent (not the
.ddz7zin istrutiou of the governmcnt} are sy-
nonymous things. if not terms, because the
last is organized upon the platform OF the first
and derives from at all It's Vitality. There
is not a power that i possesses that is not
granted by the Constitution The whole
orbit in which it moves and the movements
themselves, are ordained and regulated by the
Constitution, and the moment this connection
between them ceases the government, such
as It now is, dies:
But why, we shoq!d like to know, cannot
the affairs cf the country be conducted Is
we'll under the Constitution noto as in times
Of peace? 1t has given every power to Con
gress and to the. Executive necessary for {,
vigorous and successful prosecution Of the
war What more could it do, and what more
| could ,e desired?-What is to hinder Con
>gress from enacting suitable laws to carry
out the granted powers which that body
possesses, 50 far raising and maintanin 2
armies are concerned? And what hinder
the President from executing such laws and
using his prescribed authority so as to have
a sufficient force in the field to meet and repe.
the enemy? From the battle of Bethel to that
of Lookout Mountain, embracing an interval
f of nearly two yea.s and half, filled with the
most stirring evciats ot the war, we heard no
thing about the Constitution being q stumb
ling block to the Executive. Every body was
: satisfied with it and no journal raised tlft
i voice of de content that we are aware Of Bu
: since the battle Of Lookout a great change
has come over the spirit of at least one Jour
l nal, and it row raises the cry OF; down will
the Constitution! It's trammels upon The
government are insuferable 1t had bettel
be "torn up as waste paper than remain, a
. a time like this, the clog thatt is to the Con
, faderacy: Such in substance, is the impor
!, OF the article in the Richmond Enquirer, upo1
I. which we are commenting.
We do not-we cannot think that the peo
pie of the Confederate States are prepared a.
vet to give themselves u to the embraces O
aosolutism. They can conquer the enem,
without the shadow of a necessity for resort
ing to this prodigious- sacrifice: They car
triumphantly near themselves through tn
struggle, and preserve at the same time tn,
Constitution, which Is the charter of the,
rights.
: & friend who has tried persimn3on seeds il
coffee saws he VIII defv anv nan to detpc