President, and toasts wuz drank ez follows:--

"The ancient Dimocrisy--troo to the country, ez long ez there is an
office to be filled."

Response by Fernandy Wood.

"The President uv the evenin--the last Dimocratic President uv the
Yoonited States."

Mr Bookanan rose to respond, but he wuz overkum, and sank back, his eyes
suffoozed with tears. In a voice broken with emoshun, he intimated that
he wuz in daily expectation uv bein translated, ez Elijer wuz, in a
barouche with two white hosses. "White," he repeated; "for ef the team
is black, I won't go; I'll die the nateral way fust." "My frends," sed
he, "keep my mantle out uv the hands uv the Jews. Wher is the Elisha
who'll wear it?"

"The yoonun ez it wuz, the constooshun ez it is, and the nigger where he
ought to be."

Response by Breckinridge, who sed he hed bin four years fightin the
battles uv the Dimocrisy, whose prinsiples wuz happily set forth in the
sentiment. Beeten in the field, we must fight it out at the ballot-box.
_Nil despritrando_ must be the motto uv the Dimocrisy.

"Androo Jaxon, the--"

As thus much uv the toast wuz read, there wuz a clap uv thunder heard,
wich shook the buildin, and made not only the windows rattle, but the