d is already insane. It all shows that the moment we leave
the realm of fact and law we are adrift on the wide and shoreless
sea of theological speculation.

_Question_. Do you think there will be a second coming?

_Answer_. No, not as long as the church is in power. Christ will
never again visit this earth until the Freethinkers have control.
He will certainly never allow another church to get hold of him.
The very persons who met in New York to fix the date of his coming
would despise him and the feeling would probably be mutual. In
his day Christ was an Infidel, and made himself unpopular by
denouncing the church as it then existed. He called them liars,
hypocrites, thieves, vipers, whited sepulchres and fools. From
the description given of the church in that day, I am afraid that
should he come again, he would be provoked into using similar
language. Of course, I admit there are many good people in the
church, just as there were some good Pharisees who were opposed to
the crucifixion.

--_The Express_, Buffalo, New York, Nov. 4th, 1878.

THE SOLID SOUTH AND RESUMPTION.

_Question_. Colonel, to start with, what do you think of the solid
South?

_Answer_. I think the South is naturally opposed to the Republican
party; more, I imagine, to the name, than to the personnel of the
organization. But the South has just as good friends in the
Republican party as in the Democratic party. I do not think there
are any Republicans who would not rejoice to see the South prosperous
and happy. I know of none, at least. They will have to get over
the prejudices born of isolation. We lack direct and constant
communication. I do not recollect having seen a newspaper from
the Gulf States for a long time. They, down there, may imagine
that the feeling in the North is the same as during the war. But
it certainly is not. The Northern people are anxious to be friendly;
and if they can be, without a violation of their principles, they
will be. Whether it be true or not, however, most of the Republicans
of the North believe that no Republican in the South is heartily
welcome in that section, whether he goes there from the North, or
is a Southern man. Personally, I do not care anything about partisan
politics. I want to see every man in the United States guaranteed
the right to express his choice at the ballot-box, and I do not
want social ostracism to follow a man, no matter how he may vote.
A solid South mean