TO

 ROBERT J. BRECKINRIDGE,

 AUTHOR OF THE ACT AND TESTIMONY,

 JAMES LENOX AND NATHAN L. RICE,

MEMBERS OF THE CONVENTION OF 1835, 

FRANCIS McFARLAND, GEORGE V. MUSGRAVE,

CHARLES HODGE, DAVID ELLIOTT,

JOSEPH McELROY, NATHANIEL EWING,

WILLIAM L. BRECKINRIDGE, WILLIAM S. PLUMER,

  AND THE OTHER SURVIVORS

OF

A GENERATION TRIED AND FAITHFUL

 THIS TRIBUTE 

TO 

THE PRINCIPLES WHICH THEY DEFENDED 

AND 

THE MEMORIES OF THE SAINTED DEAD, 

IS, 

WITH AFFECTIONATE VENERATION, 

INSCRIBED