PART FIRST.

ANECDOTES OF THE REBELLION-PATRIOTIC, POLITICAL, CIVIL, JUDICIAL, ADMINISTRATIVE, ETC.

AND

MEMORABLE ANNALS AND REMINISCENCES or MEN AND MEASURES IDENTIFIED WITH THE GREAT
STRUGGLE; HEROIC DEVOTION TO THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER-VALOROUS DEFENCE OF
DYING BLESSINGS UPON IT; DARK AND TROUBLOUS EXPERIENCES OF UNIONISTS AND CONSPIRA
TORS; TESTS AND TRIALS OF LOYALTY, NORTH AND SOUTH; FAMOUS LEGAL AND JUDICIAL INCI-
DENTS; PECULIAR INSTANCES OF ADMINISTERING AND TAKING THE OATH; ALLEGIANCE UNDER
STRESS OF CIRCUMSTANCES; DISPOSAL OF KNOTTY CASES; LOGIC AND LESSONS FOR SECESSIONISTS;
AMUSING COLLOQUIES; FLASHES OF RHETORIC; OFFICIAL GRAVITIES, JOKES, RAILLERY, PER-
PLEXITIES, BLUNDERS, RETORTS; BURLESQUES, WITTICISMS, &C., &c.

"Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide

In the strife of TRUTH with FALSEHOOD, for the good or evil side."
"Keep step with the music of UNION,

The music our ancestors sung,
When states, like a jubilant chorus,

To beautiful sisterhood sprung."

Can either of you to-day name one single act of wrong, deliberately and purposely done by the government at Washington, of which the South has a right to complain? I challenge an answer.-ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS, before the Georgia Secessionists' Convention.

Andrew Jackson's Famous Union Toast.

It soon became manifest to the more sagacious ones that this dinner party and the 13th of April, the day were to be made the occasion for 1830, there was a inaugurating the new doctrine of nullificaremarkable dinner tion, and to fix the paternity of it on Mr. party in the national Jefferson, the great Apostle of Democracy metropolis. It was in America. Many gentlemen present, the birthday of perceiving the drift of the whole performThomas Jefferson, ance, withdrew in disgust before sumand those who at- moned to the table; but the sturdy old tended the party did President, perfectly informed, remained. so avowedly for the When the dinner was over and the purpose of honoring the memory of the cloth removed, a call was made for the author of the DECLARATION OF INDE- regular toasts. These were twenty-fourPENDENCE. Such was the tenor of the in number, eighteen of which, it is alleged,. invitation. Andrew Jackson, the Presi- were written by Mr. Calhoun. These, in dent of the United States, was there. So multifarious forms, shadowed forth, now was John C. Calhoun, the Vice President. dimly, now clearly, the new doctrine. Three of the cabinet ministers, namely, They were all received and honored in Van Buren, Eaton, and Branch were various degrees, when volunteer toasts. there; and members of Congress and citi- were announced as in order. zens not a few.

The President was of course first called