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[713] “I have always thought that ‘ Dixie’ was one of the best songs I ever heard. Our adversaries over the way, I know, have attempted to appropriate it; but I insist that on yesterday we fairly captured it. I referred the question to the attorney-general, and he gave it as his legal opinion that it is now our property. (Laughter and loud applause.) I now ask the band to give us a good turn upon it.” It was the characteristic speech and last joke of Abraham Lincoln.
1866.
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