The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-03-23

lstarye the widow Apd put to death the IA
theriess. y ~
/ l1fAt il fnt he mighty asdisnce,
listless cnongh bsi6re, became rcuSed TO-
attention, and with the resounding chorus
the high church roofs trembled through all
their arches. Of course the thing was not
|to, be botue. CekteaatidnS wsrS not t9be1
psrmitted, under pretext Of wofshipping
sssiia.s sss .::'s s e fs'sssa. sssssss.
spd thsbest GcseFnmene ;inishe world. 3. 10
Fsing !, ,paalM seemed Sfmpls snopgh;; ! hnt1
the police knaM thA God eould not SHOW
himself in Pol1Ad without mischief TO the
Emperor spd Ih}s armissa So tho 1hy,un yas
prohibited, q few priests were arrested; one
congregation showed some syrnptom Of con-
tumacy-it vas sabred .pp0l by Uossack
sstsltk TlS Bishop was ORDERED 70 close
hiS cathedral, and on his disobedience the
aged prslate was taken and chsined up by
the legs and rcast into dungeon under
ground. This il thsvayyto run your. church.
European emperours understand these
things from long practices but their broth
or of Illinois is,eyen now not far behind the
best of them Learned clergymen, with
their ball and chain, sweeping the streets
that lead to their churches, are witness that
our new, Yankee Father Of the Faithful
does not shrink from doing his duty. I'm
doubtedly the Rev. Mr.. Wingiield must
have been insinuating treason in some part
Of the service. ----.--.--.
= The Provost Marshal's people were, of
course, the best judges of the tendency of
his exercises; and if they judge it danger.
ous to law and order, what were they
to do but muzzle that pastor, and chain him
up, and set him to sweeping the streetsf
The Hoosier Emperour has further step
to take still; end he cannot 60 back. Hsv
ing once undertaken to Supply pastorate"
in churches, he must next provide that the
flock shall attend the ministrations of his
shepherd. No use in putting an orthodox
teacher into an empty building. No use in
running train without passengers; nor in
running churches without communicates.
Therefore it will be needful for the Auto
crat to make absence from his authorized
churches penal ofense. He can be at no
loss for preeedents in this matter; and will
find them in the English statute book, if
that, indeed. be at all required; but "milita
ry necessity" disdains precedent, is para.
mount to all constitutions, and Is law nn-
to itself. If military necessity demand it,
then; let the edict go forth that each per
SON between the age Of aud -, and
Of either sex, shall produce in the Provost
MARSHAL Office, every Monday morning, q
ticket signed by guard at each church
door, certifying that he or she has attended
at least one service in one Of the licensed
churches. Nothing can be simpler than
this; and no body but the "disloyal" will
complain OF it.
Then for the better ordering Of public
worship, the War Department must issue
an authorized liturgy, or forms of prayer
fos each sect, and print them in General
Orders. Some trifing changes may be re-
auired in the ordinary petitions, 80 as to
make them read (for example,) Our King
dom come. Our will be done Give us
each day our neighbors' daily bread--or the
like. But these are details which the sas
gacity of Mr.. Stanton will easily arrange to
the satisfaction of his august master, till a
convention of loyal divines can prepare an
orthodox edition of the Bible, when Paul's
epistle to Philemon, the ninth command
ment, and other apochrypbal portions can be
"voted down. An "antislavery Bible, and
an antislavery God" are in fact, points of
the original bill which Lincoln was chosen
to "put through"
Now this may be regarded as kind of
faint sketch of the business. .of Running the
churches, undertaken by tho Hoosier Pope:
we expect to see it soon brought very
nearly to perfection, especially as the Pres
idential election of that country approaches.
tits obvious that prayers and sermons may
be made the vehicles-for clergymen are
wondrous cunning--of reflections or allu
sious unfavorable to Lincoln's ticket, unfa.
yorable, therefore, to the true interests OF
the country. That must be stopped.
Preachers must not be INDUCED in any OF
their abusive PARALLELS from Hebrew history.
.ostensibly about Jehu, Rehoboam, the AS
syrians or Philstines; but must just preach
and pray right on, SO plainly that the COM
monest detective can understand them
Neither ID it at all to be supposed, or even
conceived, that the new regime OF the
churches is to be limited to places in the
Confederate States, which happen for the
present within the domain of Yankee Prov
yost Marshals. Naturally enough, it be-
gins there; but having proved its conven.
fence and advantages, and seeing how USE
full it could be made in Presidential elec.
tion, it will, without doubt, be extended to
the whole of that favored country. Then
no potenate or Pope on earth will ruu such
: team of churches IS the emperour pontin
of Illinois, Louis' Napoleon drives but
one horse machipe, and trouble enough it
gives him. The Car runs but pair OF
churches-the Greek and the Catholic
not we'll matched either-and We have seen
how one of them sometimes kicks and jibs;
bnt our neighbor of the North will sit be-
hind glorious team of four, or six-youug
horses, too, hardly, broken. unsccustom cd
to the bit ani lash, and all bent on going
different ways Have care, oh! thou
Hoosier Phsston.@ a -s--.@
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