ow and then to say my say
against the religious bigotry and cruelty of the world. As long
as the smallest coal is red in hell I am going to keep on. I never
had the slightest idea of retiring. I expect the church to do the
retiring.

_Question_. What do you think of Wendell Phillips as an orator?

_Answer_. He was a very great orator--one of the greatest that
the world has produced. He rendered immense service in the cause
of freedom. He was in the old days the thunderbolt that pierced
the shield of the Constitution. One of the bravest soldiers that
ever fought for human rights was Wendell Phillips.

_Question_. What do you think of the action of Congress on Fitz
John Porter?

_Answer_. I think Congress did right. I think they should have
taken this action long before. There was a question of his guilt,
and he should have been given the benefit of a doubt. They say he
could have defeated Longstreet. There are some people, you know,
who would have it that an army could be whipped by a good general
with six mules and a blunderbuss. But we do not regard those
people. They know no more about it than a lady who talked to me
about Porter's case. She argued the question of Porter's guilt
for half an hour. I showed her where she was all wrong. When she
found she was beaten she took refuge with "Oh, well, anyhow he had
no genius." Well, if every man is to be shot who has no genius,
I want to go into the coffin business.

_Question_. What, in your judgment, is necessary to be done to
insure Republican success this fall?

_Answer_. It is only necessary for the Republican party to stand
by its principles. We must be in favor of protecting American
labor not only, but of protecting American capital, and we must be
in favor of civil rights, and must advocate the doctrine that the
Federal Government must protect all citizens. I am in favor of a
tariff, not simply to raise a revenue--that I regard as incidental.
The Democrats regard protection as incidental. The two principles
should be, protection to American industry and protection to American
citizens. So that, after all, there is but one issue--protection.
As a matter of fact, that is all a government is for--to protect.
The Republican party is stronger to-day than it was four years ago.
The Republican party stands for the progressive ideas of the American
people. It has been said that the administration will control the
Southern delegates. I do