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But the North will triumph.
I hear it. Do you remember in that disastrous siege in India, when the Scotch girl raised her head from the pallet of the hospital, and said to the sickening hearts of the English, “I hear the bagpipes, the Campbells are coming,” and they said, “Jessie, it is delirium.”
“No, I know it; I heard it far off.”
And in an hour the pibroch burst upon their glad ears, and the banner of England floated in triumph over their heads.
So I hear in the dim distance the first notes of the jubilee rising from the hearts of the millions.
Soon, very soon, you shall hear it at the gates of the citadel, and the Stars and Stripes shall guarantee liberty forever from the Lakes to the Gulf.
[Continued applause.]
Lee and Shepard, 1891.
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