The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-07-02
Outorop OF Radicalism

The height to which the IDEAS engondered
by the late war Of the right Of conquest hove
risen in the northern mind, is torcibly OK.
pressed in the assumption put forth by the
Rev. DR.. Waldo, al the lato adjourned
Methodist Con ference, held in Chicago, viz
That oil government ia bs5cd upon tho rcli.
gous idoas Of those who carry il on, and that the
northern methodists have acquired by conquest
the right to control the religion Of the south
! That it is lust as wrong 70 allow the southern
methodists to meet and worship in their way al
| il would be to allow Lee and johnson to call TO-
gother and drill their armies again. They will
| soon be prohibited from 80 doing. Tho religion
! Of the north is bound to rule this continent, and
| it proposes to mako proper application Of our
| Bible to all the southern states and people
| subjugstod people have no moro right TO apply
their own peculiar moral ideas, than to use their
physical implements Of war.
This despotic sentiment is a legitimate
expression Of the political idea that the war
destroyed oil the civi! rights Of the states,
| aud authorized the overthrow Of their social
institutions, tho dissolution Of their internal
governments, and the creating of new ones,
on totally new basis, ~ the power Of the
bsyonet. The doctrine broadly maintained
in the legislation of both houses Of congress,
that the right Of suffrage, and the right TO
have any control in the affairs of state be-
longing only TO those who maintain the Opln'
ions and support the acts of the party which
is dominant Mt Washington, covers, in full,
the doctrine of this methodist preacher, that
the north by virtue Of conquest, has the
right to control the religion Of the south and
to prescribe the way in which its subjects
| there shall be dll0lced ito meet and wor.
ship Tho extent Of the power to enforce
the wicked will is different in the two cases
| but the temper is the same, and the acts of
| congress cover both equally. The political
| power happens TO be consolidated GccidGn-
| tally IN the hands Of . controlling faction,
who WELD it with absolute sway over an un.
happy, sublugated section. The tyrsnt
majority supprosses the circumstances Of
the protesting minority among themselves,
and ia enabled 10 throw the concentrated
force of the north and vest upon the devoted,
helpless and unresistiEg south. But il is
not SO easy to combine the religions Of the
cOnqueriug section against the religions OF
the subjected nor is it possible yet % on.
force religious intolerance by the secular
atm.
Such men as the Rev. n, p, Waldo are
| fortunately mol III pOs5GSslUh VI an army VI
a navy, with which 10 enforce tueir ideas Of
conformity, nor treasury with which &c
buy up political concurrence in thoil
| schemes.
The spiri; Of persecution which glores out
| il such speeches, is the legitimate outgroT Ia
Of radjcslism, the same il savage intolerance
as that Of the Rev. DR.. Breckenridge, the
leading light of presbyterianism III Ken.
tucky, who lately declared the next mission
Of radicalism to be the extirpstion Of the
Roman Catholic religion in America, even
if, il the accomplishment Of that blessed
contamination, it might cause the burning
up Of the city Of New York, where the Pope
aud tho democrats have 60 grand On ascend
ency.
But happily for other men and sects, Mr..
Waldo is q methodist and Mr.. Breckenridge
is presbyterian, both fiery zesloss, who be.
| ieye that out of the pale Of their own com.
muaion all is sin. Mr.. Breckenridge may
agree with Mr. Waldo that the religion OF
the south must be controlled by the rights Of
var, so as TO be made TO conform 10 the
"rehgion Of the north y bat We should Ike