the
Christian to worship God in his own way just as quick as I would
for the Atheist to enjoy music, flowers and fields. I hope to see
the time when even the poor people can hear the music of the finest
operas on Sunday. One grand opera with all its thrilling tones,
will do more good in touching and elevating the world than ten
thousand sermons on the agonies of hell.

_Question_. Have you ever been interfered with before in delivering
Sunday lectures?

_Answer_. No, I postponed a lecture in Baltimore at the request
of the owners of a theatre because they were afraid some action
might be taken. That is the only case. I have delivered lectures
on Sunday in the principal cities of the United States, in New
York, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, San Francisco, Cincinnati and many
other places. I lectured here last winter; it was on Sunday and
I heard nothing of its being contrary to law. I always supposed
my lectures were good enough to be delivered on the most sacred
days.

--_The Leader_, Pittsburg, Pa., October 27, 1879.

[* The manager of the theatre, where Col. Ingersoll lectured, was fined
fifty dollars which Col. Ingersoll paid.]

POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS.

_Question_. What do you think about the recent election, and what
will be its effect upon political matters and the issues and
candidates of 1880?

_Answer_. I think the Republicans have met with this almost
universal success on account, first, of the position taken by the
Democracy on the currency question; that is to say, that party was
divided, and was willing to go in partnership with anybody, whatever
their doctrines might be, for the sake of success in that particular
locality. The Republican party felt it of paramount importance
not only to pay the debt, but to pay it in that which the world
regards as money. The next reason for the victory is the position
assumed by the Democracy in Congress during the called session.
The threats they then made of what they would do in the event that
the executive did not comply with their demands, showed that the
spirit of the party had not been chastened to any considerable
extent by the late war. The people of this country will not, in
my judgment, allow the South to take charge of this country until
they show their ability to protect the rights of citizens in their
respective States.

_Question_. Then, as you regard the victories, they are largely
due to a firm adherence to principle, and the fai