China is slowly
awakening from the lethargy of centuries. It will soon have the
wants of Europe, and America will supply those wants. This is a
nation of inventors and there is more mechanical ingenuity in the
United States than on the rest of the globe. In my judgment this
country will in a short time add to its customers hundreds of
millions of the people of the Celestial Empire. So you see, to
me, the future is exceedingly bright. And besides all this, I must
not forget the thing that is always nearest my heart. There is
more intellectual liberty in the United States to-day than ever
before. The people are beginning to see that every citizen ought
to have the right to express himself freely upon every possible
subject. In a little while, all the barbarous laws that now disgrace
the statute books of the States by discriminating against a man
simply because he is honest, will be repealed, and there will be
one country where all citizens will have and enjoy not only equal
rights, but all rights. Nothing gratifies me so much as the growth
of intellectual liberty. After all, the true civilization is where
every man gives to every other, every right that he claims for
himself.

--_The Post_, Washington, D. C., November 14, 1880.

RELIGION IN POLITICS.

_Question_. How do you regard the present political situation?

_Answer_. My opinion is that the ideas the North fought for upon
the field have at last triumphed at the ballot-box. For several
years after the Rebellion was put down the Southern ideas traveled
North. We lost West Virginia, New Jersey, Connecticut, New York
and a great many congressional districts in other States. We lost
both houses of Congress and every Southern State. The Southern
ideas reached their climax in 1876. In my judgment the tide has
turned, and hereafter the Northern idea is going South. The young
men are on the Republican side. The old Democrats are dying. The
cradle is beating the coffin. It is a case of life and death, and
life is ahead. The heirs outnumber the administrators.

_Question_. What kind of a President will Garfield make?

_Answer_. My opinion is that he will make as good a President as
this nation ever had. He is fully equipped. He is a trained
statesman. He has discussed all the great questions that have
arisen for the last eighteen years, and with great ability. He is
a thorough scholar, a conscientious student, and takes an exceedingly
com