The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-06-19

Some weeks or months ago we veutured
on a few words OF mild remOnstrance at
what we termed ''Itinerant Funerals.
The occasion was good Bishop Mcllvaine
ohsequies He, a man in life antagonistic
10 an extreme degree 10 ceremouialism.
was in death made the subject Of migra-
tory ceremony which was distressing.
Had the liturgy for burial been simply said
10 his diocese Of Ohio, or, better still. in
The quiet New Jersey churchyard where
his kindred sleep, il would have been con.
Eru1u- with his life. All this comes back
10 rs 10 view OF rhe posthumous pageant OF
"a day or two ago, when the remains of
"ox Minister Orr. of South Carolina
were with infinite pageantry transferred
from Lect and Stocking or some Kindred
depository ~ DR. HepwOrths Tabernacle
The question on the lips Of everybody who
saw u pass and noticed the loyal flag n the
' Mon League at half mast was W hat
does all this mean Who is this dead
Ambassador cor whom so much pagcautry
j. needed Are we 90 drape the Citv
Hall and D. Mayor Hayemcyer and hi-
Aldermen o. mourn for every dead Minis
ter who comes from abroad?" 1--we are
to ccremoniahze dead diplomacy, WHY not
d. honor % il in the living. breathing
flesh? The next time the Reverend Mr.
Cramer or General Sickles. on pleasure or
business bent, gets leave of absence he will
deserve a reception. The puzzle increases
when we bear in mind ministers have died
abroad before now, and cufins have come
home unheeded and unweleomed. There
must have been something exceptional in
this south Carolina case, aud il seems 10 Us
not difficult t. detect t. We can describe it
iu few, precise terms rs false and spurious
tender Of friendly feeling 10 the South.
10 il just such a manifestation as an Ad-
ministrution Influenced by merely personal
feelings or a political purpose would make.
10 is kindred 20 that which coddles the liv-
ing Longstreet and Mosby, and sternly
refuses tO hold intercourse with such q
man as John A. Campbell, even when he
comes On intcrcede for Louisiana. Ii means
tp assert that the test uf a Southern mans
rehabilitation is personal subservieuce
o. the President Unless he demonstrate
this living he will be disregarded. and
dead he must expect no Ccrem nial rcver-
cuce Governor Orr fulfilled these ex
pectati1ns He was extremely rebelliOus
while rebellion had q chance, aud exces-
svcly Obscquious % those who, in fashion
crushed rebellion. His reward Is 10 be
appointed Minister abroad and, dying. to
be ccremOualized under custom house
auspices in a city which, if loyal testimony
j. " be credited some ten years ago rebel
ltuus agents tried 70 burn TO the ground.
Ia really seems 10 us the whole thing is not
merely hollow and false, but poor politi-
'ai device which those on whom il is sup
posed TO operate will contemptuously re-
pudlate. One exception to this reproof
we. gladly make. Governor Orr, we
believe stood very high in worth in the
Masonic maternity The feeling which
prompted them 70 do honor TO their dead
brothers memory and fling their green
leaves on his coffin cannot be disparaged,
1t remains TO be seen with what honors
will desolated South Carolina receive the
remains Of her once chief magistrate
Moses now reiguing 1t is certain that
neither the South nor the North will receive
the Orr obsequies as a substitute for self.
government in Louisiana. Y. World,