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Hear the thunder pf the cannon sounding unto God the doom 

 of rebellion's last citadel. 



The day of gladness is coming ! Beyond the murky break- 

 ing clouds, in the glittering light behold the glorious land ! 

 Land of all gifts that nature gives to earth, of cotton, corn, 

 and gold, and every mineral treasure, of salutary and delicious 

 fruits, the orange, apple, peach and pear, the sacramental 

 grape; land of deep rivers, fertile vales, and verdant slopes, 

 and cattle on ten thousand hills ; land of the forest and the 

 prairie; land of the Mississippi, its mountain-bound, gigantic 

 valley.; land of the far-extending borders, washed by both 

 oceans and mediterranean seas ; land of the people con- 

 stituted state, in whose distributed sovereignty, local self- 

 gcvernment is harmonized with the glory of national and 

 continental sway ; where man, and his dominion, rights, and 

 liberty are supreme ; land of the school-house and the church, 

 the Christian's worship and the Christian's charity ; enriched 

 by all the industries, her commerce whitening with its sailing 

 ships and darkening with its steamers all navigable waters ; 

 prosperous in peace, invincible in war, guarded by the em- 

 battled fortress and the iron Heet, illustrated by literature and 

 science, adorned by art with pictures splendid in deeds of un- 

 dying fame, with statues and memorials of her immortal men, 

 heroes and statesmen who saved her, sages who counselled 

 her, poets and orators who inspired her, jurists who upheld 

 her laws and vindicated her in the great court of nations, 

 land of the free ; behold her, as she mounts to the top of 

 the century, bearing the fortunes of a hundred proud, ex- 

 ultant, happy millions, and plants her radiant banner on the 

 summit of the world. Behold her ! America ! your country 

 Live for her ; fight for her ; die for her. 



