The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-03-23
THE DAILY REGISTER.
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Party Of the Consfituton. 81
Running the Churches.
From the Richmond Examiner.
81 1t was vain for Mr.. Lincoln modestiy to
declne toe Office and duty of Pope, and to
d;sayow the wish or intention Of "Runping,
he Churches He must conform to tie
xigencies Of his position. ALI mighty en-,
4 6rors find it necessary to preside over pub
e worship. When the Roman RepublicI
8as overthrown, and Augustus Cesar, ia
lis capacity of Fmperator, or Commander
Chief, made himself Consul and Tribune,
| 3dile, Pretor and all, military necessity
wss found to require that he ahould become
Pontiter INarimus also II he was to govern
Ind regulate the State of Rome he could
bot safely leave 10000 gods and goddess,
es to ''run" unsoverned and unregulated.-
1incoln's friend, the Czar Of Russia, 10 also
|Chief Priest of Russia and Father of the
B Faithful; and he not only presides over the
|&reek Church Of the loyal part of his Em-
|pire, but runs the church of rebellious Po
Hand too. In France the bishops and clergy
|are Government officers, receiving Govern
|ment pay; and the entrance gate OF every
|ereche has the tri-color flag over it, and .
|sentry pacing before it to show that it il ~
much a public Office as the Prefecture
Even in the constitutional monarchy of
|England, the Queen is head of tho church,
|pr Popess, dominates loyal bishops, and pre-.
8cribes the government of the ecclesiasti-
Nal order. Needless to say that in India
he British sovereign runs the Juggernaut
machine, and appoints and pays the drivers
and conductors. No absolute or despotic
Blower or State-like that which Abe is now
|callad by Providence to WELD and to adorn
|can be complete and effective, If the church.
Is are left to "tase care of themselves" as
Ethat potentate, even so late as the I'd of Jan
harry last, fondly hoped nigh. yet be per
Emitted in sOme measure Even ON the "a
|bf January, the Hoosier Emperonr, writing
It'd people in st. Louis, who had entreated
|him to reverse the order of Provost Mar
q bal, debarring one McPheeters from preach
Elug in his own church, declared that no
|wcould not undertake to run the churches;"
eyen the mere civil and secular machine" !"
which he had undertaken to run "as he had
Ennd 1t" had got off the track, and was
threatening to explode and blow np the en-
|gincer, and he hoped he would not be call
a Il upon to undertake the management OF
|ths even more complicated piece of religi-
|ous mechanism. Short sighted emperor -
| History and tue warnings and examples OF
other natons-it he had known anything
Of history or of other nations-would have
taught him better. Religion and public
lo,N an al
ucnt in the life of people to be left to
rqke care Of themselves" by any prudent
uIer; and the humble and retiring at
toyney Of Illinois very soon learned to
ntemplate without the least dismay, and
ia Grasp with firm hand TO those grander
7D> D>Donslbil;ties and duties, which continu-
|alIy rcse before him as his high destiny un-
rolled and evolved itself. Already the
ashington War Department has its eccle-
,iastical side; and the armies are attended
~ religious commissioners, who are detail
ed to take possession of the churches OF
sach sect, and Supply the pastorates;" OBJ
noxious ministers are simply turned out,
and orthodox camp followers set up in their
places Secretary Stanton, we are compla-
Gently informed by New York paper, has
given his "high authorization" to COM
mission for taking care OF all Baptist
nurches, wherever the Yankee lines ex
| tend. One Ames of Indiana, a Methodist
bishop, is assigned to similar, only Metho.
4 list duty at New Orleans. The letter from
ew Orleans, giving the latest accounts OF
Ame,' proceedings, which has been pub.
i,led in the Montgomery Adrertizn, says
ais order from the Secretary Of War was
10 take charge of all churches not supplied
by loyal pastors and appointed by loyal
bishops As to the Protestant Episcopal
Church, we have heard nothing, as yet, tof
4 regular commission to run it; but the com
handing Generals and Provost Marshals
,eem to take order with that communion
pretty we'll. DR.. Leacock and another
Episcopal clergyman of New Orleans were
long imprisoned in Northern dungeons for
not praying right; and the Reverend Mr.
V ingtield, uf Portsmouth, not having come
up to the religious standard Of the booted
and blear eyed apostle who tends toat
corner of the vineyard, is now cleaning the
streets of the town with ball and chain
canking at his foot, while more faithful
pastor feeds his sheep with loyal pasture,
and leads them beside the still waters OF
Federal faith.
This is sad, but it was . necessity of the
case. Leave clergymen unmuzzled over
the Bible, and they cannot only read aloud
Southern doctrine from these pages every
Sunday, but they can even inculcate it in
their PRAYERS, and insinuate it in psalmody.
The Emperor of Russia has well proved the
need of keeping the religion of Poland we'll
in hand, and regulating every detail OF by
Russian police. Three years ago, for exam
3ple, when Poland was greatly agitated BY
Ia dangerous temper, it was found that al
though public assemblies elsewhere were
Suppressed, the churches of Warsaw be-.
came the theater Of . species OF public
meetings. It is true there were no speech
Hes. no denunciations Of Muscovite rule, no