nd it is none of the State convention's
business. This does not apply, it may be, to the delegates at
large, but to all the others it certainly must apply. It was so
decided at the Cincinnati convention, and decided on a question
arising about this same Pennsylvania delegation.

_Question_. Can you guess as to what the platform in going to
contain?

_Answer_. I suppose it will be a substantial copy of the old one.
I am satisfied with the old one with one addition. I want a plank
to the effect that no man shall be deprived of any civil or political
right on account of his religious or irreligious opinions. The
Republican party having been foremost in freeing the body ought to
do just a little something now for the mind. After having wasted
rivers of blood and treasure uncounted, and almost uncountable, to
free the cage, I propose that something ought to be done for the
bird. Every decent man in the United States would support that
plank. People should have a right to testify in courts, whatever
their opinions may be, on any subject. Justice should not shut
any door leading to truth, and as long as just views neither affect
a man's eyesight or his memory, he should be allowed to tell his
story. And there are two sides to this question, too. The man is
not only deprived of his testimony, but the commonwealth is deprived
of it. There should be no religious test in this country for
office; and if Jehovah cannot support his religion without going
into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give
it up.

_Question_. Is there anything new about religion since you were
last here?

_Answer_. Since I was here I have spoken in a great many cities,
and to-morrow I am going to do some missionary work at Milwaukee.
Many who have come to scoff have remained to pray, and I think that
my labors are being greatly blessed, and all attacks on me so far
have been overruled for good. I happened to come in contact with
a revival of religion, and I believe what they call an "outpouring"
at Detroit, under the leadership of a gentleman by the name of
Pentecost. He denounced me as God's greatest enemy. I had always
supposed that the Devil occupied that exalted position, but it
seems that I have, in some way, fallen heir to his shoes. Mr.
Pentecost also denounced all business men who would allow any
advertisements or lithographs of mine to hang in their places of
business, and several of these gentlemen t