Mr. Lincoln once said in a speech: “Fellow-citizens, my friend, Mr.
Douglas, made the startling announcement to-day that the Whigs are all
dead.
“If that be so, fellow-citizens, you will now experience the novelty of
hearing a speech from a dead man; and I suppose you might properly say,
in the language of the old hymn:
“‘Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.’”