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Read Ebook: A Man of the People: A Drama of Abraham Lincoln by Dixon Thomas Jr
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RAYMOND
It's the blackest news yet, sir--and it's true.
STEVENS
You must realize that we cannot delay a moment in placing another man at the head of the ticket.
LINCOLN
OPERATOR
Mr. President--It's come! It's here!
It's for you, sir!
LINCOLN
Out with it, boy, word for word as you get it!
OPERATOR
Atlanta--
Georgia--
September 3, 1864.
LINCOLN
Glory to God!
OPERATOR
--Atlanta
--is ours--
LINCOLN
O my soul, lift up thy head!
Go tell Mother, quick, tell her to come here!
NICOLAY
Three cheers for General William Tecumseh Sherman!
ALL SHOUT
Sherman! Sherman! Sherman!
LINCOLN
Unto thee, O God, we give all the praise now and forever more!
Mother! It's all right!--Uncle Billy's there!
MRS. LINCOLN
You'll never doubt again?
LINCOLN
My friends! A poem is singing in my heart!
"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord! He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored: He has loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword-- His truth is marching on!
"He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat! He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat: Oh! Be swift my soul to answer Him! Be jubilant my feet! Our God is marching on!"
STANTON
That draft will be all right, Stevens! Now all together!
We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more, From Mississippi's winding stream and from New England's shore; We leave our plows and workshop, our wives and children dear, With hearts too full for utterance, with but a single tear, We dare not look behind us but steadfastly before, We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more!
CHORUS
We are coming, we are coming, our Union to restore! We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more, We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more!
LINCOLN
And remember, gentlemen, U. S. Grant sent Sherman on that mission. You know I didn't remove him! Well, Raymond, what say you, now!
RAYMOND
It's glorious. It's a miracle! Lee's army can't survive. The end is sure! McClellan is beaten--the Union is saved!
LINCOLN
What say you all?
A COMMITTEEMAN
Your triumph is sure!
ANOTHER COMMITTEEMAN
You'll sweep the nation, sir!
NICOLAY
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