ieve that in all matter, in some way, there is what
we call force; that one of the forms of force is intelligence. I
believe that whatever is in the universe has existed from eternity
and will forever exist.

Secondly.--I exclude from my philosophy all ideas of chance. Matter
changes eternally its form, never its essence. You cannot conceive
of anything being created. No one can conceive of anything existing
without a cause or with a cause. Let me explain; a thing is not
a cause until an effect has been produced; so that, after all,
cause and effect are twins coming into life at precisely the same
instant, born of the womb of an unknown mother. The Universe in
the only fact, and everything that ever has happened, is happening,
or will happen, are but the different aspects of the one eternal
fact.

--_The Dispatch_, Pittsburg, Pa., December 11, 1880.

THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.

_Question_. What phases will the Southern question assume in the
next four years?

_Answer_. The next Congress should promptly unseat every member
of Congress in whose district there was not a fair and honest
election. That is the first hard work to be done. Let notice, in
this way, be given to the whole country, that fraud cannot succeed.
No man should be allowed to hold a seat by force or fraud. Just
as soon as it is understood that fraud is useless it will be
abandoned. In that way the honest voters of the whole country can
be protected.

An honest vote settles the Southern question, and Congress has the
power to compel an honest vote, or to leave the dishonest districts
without representation. I want this policy adopted, not only in
the South, but in the North. No man touched or stained with fraud
should be allowed to hold his seat. Send such men home, and let
them stay there until sent back by honest votes. The Southern
question is a Northern question, and the Republican party must
settle it for all time. We must have honest elections, or the
Republic must fall. Illegal voting must be considered and punished
as a crime.

Taking one hundred and seventy thousand as the basis of representation,
the South, through her astounding increase of colored population,
gains three electoral votes, while the North and East lose three.
Garfield was elected by the thirty thousand colored votes cast in
New York.

_Question_. Will the negro continue to be the balance of power,
and if so, will it inure to his benefit?

_Answer_.