Soldiers' Home, Sixteenth & Filbert Sts. Philadelphia, October 4, 1866. : Having read an article in the newspaper called "The age," stating that after roll call, on Tuesday last, certain men were called to the front, and "interrogated as to their political opinions. They answered, unhesitatingly, that they were Democrats. They were immediately informed that they would no longer be furnished with quarters at that institution." We, the undersigned, now, and at that time, inmates of the home, declare said statement to be entirely and unqualifiedly false. No question pertaining to politics or religion has ever been put to any one of us by either of the board of managers or the superintendent, or any one officially connected with the home. We were all of us present at the inspection and heard the questions propounded to the men, the same questions being put to each one of us, and relating entirely to our physical condition and our ability to maintain ourselves, if dismissed from the institution: ...