The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-05-07

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WHEN THAT SAINT and philosopher, Fl. G.,
spoke of the little creatures whom God for
some inscrutable purpose permitted to edit
the majority of Republican papers," he
must have cast his misty, benevolent, baby
glance over intervening space to this city,
aud taken in all the microscopic proportions
of the "cheap boy" who runs the Repuoli'
can luminsry of Rock Island. None but an
inconceivabiy small mind could be guilty of
SO small subterfuge as the following:
"SInce returning from Chicago our stten
ton has been called to low and scurrlous
editorial in the ARGUS concerning Rev. Mr.
Burnett pastor Of the Second Presbyterian
Church A little exhibition Of feeling
between Mr. Burnett and one of his parish
toner's on the church union question, is
made the occasion of the article
What is termed ''little exhibition OF
feeling" was as square piece of word battle
as was ever Witnessed between two Infatuated
men, and needed no stretching on our par,
10 magnify it into a disturbance of the peace
The whole article is series of little prevar-
cations, and is so sbject spec
linen OF the "beg your pardon" mo
I-don't-mean-you '.style OF Jenkinsism to
amount to moral emesis. 1t
attributes our structures on Mr.. Burnett,
first to bias in the church union matter,
which certainly we took sufficient pains to
indicate, had nothing to do with our article,
as we have as little professional Or private
interest in the matter, as we would in q
union between the followers of BrahmA and
Buddha. We wrote it not only as an expos
office by acting the bsckgusrd on the street
but as q rebuke 10 an individual whose whole
course of action since coming to the city,
has been that of q puppy. In using the coign
of vantage of his pulpit to insult tis congre
CATION, and all Christian men who think diff
ferently in politics from himself.
AS a specimen of purblind Stiffness we
think the following from the Union'S article
certainly deserves the palm:
at ill becomes paper that disposes of
al ordinary street assault or drunken row
with dozen lines, to magnity MIR. Burnett 8
otiense, whatever 1t may be, and parade 1t
through half column of biihngsgste. And
the only reason the ARGUS does this is be
cause Mr.. Burnett Is a minister, and be-
cause, being selected to preach q union
Thanksgiving sermon last fall, he had the
honesty to speak out his gratitude for the
defeat of the Democracy at the polls and
the consequent favorable indications tor
n national peace, union and harmony. Thons-
ands of good people have thanked God for
every Democratic defeat, from that of Iolli
Golfer, early In the war, down to that OF
Seymour and Blair, ats culmination. Had
Mr. Burnett, on that occasion, omitted this
one subjecr of gratitude, the ARGUS would
most likely have omitted it's abuse"
"To magnify Mr.. Burnett's offence, acAat
ecer it may De, that is to say, granting he
may have offended We have not heard in
what respect, and beg your pardon Mr.. B.
for putting it in that way"
1.-The only reason the ARGUS does this is
because Mr.. Burnett is q minister and etc.
What reason could any man in his senses
have for abusing minister more than any
body else That's baby talk. Its because
Mr.. Burnett isn't minister, but politi
clan, and hurls anathema maranatha against
every body who does not think and vote
politically like himself.
The other portion OF the above paragraph
: l1uo ,l,t
which is the inspiring motive of all the
radical press and pulpits, for there are
both, which declare themselves infallible,
and would birdie the tongues and subdue
the hearts of everybody who had the temer-
ity to think differently: who bow down and
worship their own self righteousness and
the Most High. A mans politics, inasmuch
as they are the result of his reason applied
10 things temporal, no more appertain to his
eternal salvation, than the cut and material
Of the apparel of his freshly body, and the
man who is ordained and Amounted to min
ster at the altar of the Most High, who
would defle it with political dogmasism
and use his reflected power to insult the
sense OF those who came there to pray,
and hear Gods word and not
the party edicts of st. Gran. and
81. sumner; whether he be Presbyterian,
Baptist Methodist, Mennonite, Universalist.
Unitarian, Episcopal, Lutheran or wha. mot.
he should receive every honest mans inst
and we think Mr. Burnett. is inst
now experiencing the stings of that same.
and it was the uettle of it that led him to
. public exhibition of his true spirit the
,ther day. We have no desire of wasting
any more space on the Rev. B., and we took
this occasion to set the Union right on its
assertion, that our article was inspired by a
general hatred of ministers when it was only
our settled luminosity to political blsther-
sixties that caused us to write as we did.
with this We trust the insi gni6cant OBJ
Jec' OF comment will be dismissed from the
u''hef puoiic notoriety which he so much |
.e's'S disgrace to the city-an object
VI contempt to all we'll thinking citizens, |
ana a thing with ideas so narrow contracted |
anu partisan that We dismiss him hancafor,h
from our columns. We refrain FROM, o;v;n
MN any personal abuse, and v.sh On, h.nds
Of 90 dirty a subject. ''' 'D' ns"'S