The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-10-25
"Dinna We Hear the sIogan?'


tured to death. The British soldiers
with the unfiinching courage of desper
alton, had defended the city until they
were well nigh exhausted. The wife o.
an English officer had accompanied he
husband to India and was in the city
when the seige commenced. Her servant
girl, Jennie, was from the Highlands O.
Scotland. In her childhood she had of
ten heard the slogan" of the High
landers echoing from hillside and glen.
One day the lady was out Of doors in the
shade with her little children watching
the soldiers as they strengthened the for
tiicatiOns or repealed an assault. Jen.
ME, her Highland maid, was lying on
asleep. Suddenly the girl sprung to her
feet and with glowing face and flashing
eyes gazed eagerly into the distance
For little while she stood thus and then
laid down again, putting her head in her
mistress lap. Again she closed her eyes,
and again she sprung to her feet, in a
frenzy of excitement, and cried out
"Dinna we hear it Dinna We hear
the slogan The Campbells = the
Campbells are coming %
No one else could hear anything ex-
cept the heavy boom of the enemy's
cannon or the sharp crack of the En-
field rifle. But Jennie's ear was keener
than theirs. She had caught the faint
and far-off strains of her childhood's IA
vorite song. Those strains had come to
her above the dull roar of the lombard
ment, and she knew and greeted the
notes with a shout and with tears of Joy.
The lady thought Jennie had a fever,
and wanted her to take medicine; but
the girl insisted she heard the slogan,
and help was coming. And Jennie was
right In few hours, the far-off strains
of music had changed to a fierce, stern
shout of defiance, and the laundering
roar of a desperate battle was heard
The soldiers of Britain were in the rear
of the Indian army. The half-starved
few minutes a splendid victory was won.
The army of relief brought with it food
and medicine and freedom.
And now, to the poor people Of this
land of ours: 70 those who have been
and toiling for fifteen years
in darkness and gloom: To an over
tax-ridden population; to those
who have been ground down under the
iron-heel of a hateful despotism; to the
victims of a thousand swim
ding rings; to an impoverished people
who have been working night and day,
to put more money in the packets of
those who are already rich, and proud,
and arrogant; to those who have been
tillIng the soil and earning money only
to be grasped and squandered by one
hundred thousand over-paid Office-hold-
ers; to all the working people of the
United States, who have had their nos
es hard down on the grind-stone for so
many long, weary years, we say, "din1aa
ne hear tie slogan :" Relief is coming!
Indiana has spoken, and we hear the
shouts of victory echoing across the
and plains. Ohio and West
have spoken, and we hear the
glad shouts of their disenthralled sons
far above the roar of the conflict. The
stern mandate has gone forth from the
people that there shall be peace, pros
perity and Kindly feeling in this Union.
The sovereign people have already is
sued their commands to the noisy mis-
and corrupt swindlers in
high places to stand aside and give
room to those who will look alone to
the interests of the toiling millions and
to the glory and honor of the whole
country. One hundred thousand men,
for years and years, have been feeding
and fattening on the labor of the people.
The order is that they must now go to
work. Thousands and thousands of
hired or selfish, bad-hearted men have
been busy with pen and tongue stirring
up the hatred of the people of the North
against those of the South. The order
from Indiana is that this wicked, hellish
work must cease. The slogan" which
we hear is the shouts of gladness of a
great people, rejoicing over a civil vic
tory, more glorious than any ever won
by General with an army. 1t is the
shouts of a people who have regained
their lost liberties; the rejoicing of those
who see prosperity and happiness in the
future for all the people of
this great country. The gospel of hate
has been preached this summer and fall
in vain to the people of the great State
of Indiana. They say the people of the
South have suffered enough They say
the war is over. They say "Iet US have
peace" and they mean to have it, The
wild cry of Rebel Rebel! Rebel has
ceased to brighten anybody any more.
Let US all thank God and be glad! Let
Foote and Etheridge, Pettibone and
Houk, and Taylor and all the rest of the
brigade listen to the slogan
from Indiana, West Virginia, New York
and the great Northwest, in general, and
their tune. Nobody fears Reb-
els now. Those troublesome fellows
put away their guns nearly twelve years
ago, and many of them are frst-rate
Union-men now. ''Let us have peace"
and quit talking and writing about the
war now, henceforth and forever more
Let us have union of hearts, a union
of hands-a Union that none can dis
sever, and let us all join as one man to
build it up and make it strong, glorious
everlastingi And with this object in
view, let us all vote for Tilden, Hen
bricks and Mcfarland. So mote it bel
~ The United States Treasury
is authorized by law to
employ 400 persons. 1t actually
$500 persons, or seven
times aa MANY "a IL has vuarront IF