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This novel was first secretly printed in the year 1836 in an attempt to foil the election of Martin Van Buren, whom the author fears will carry out what he considers the imperial policies of Andrew Jackson, “King Andrew the First.” The author predicts that the rights of the States will be abused and finally lost. Written in the early 1830s after the South Carolina Nullification Crisis, Tucker has woven a futuristic (for that time) romantic-politico yarn that shall take place in the year 1848. The book is set in the State of Virginia. Here the masses are participating in a guerilla war opposing the invasive and occupying Federal army, whose goal is to prevent Virginians from joining an already seceded Confederacy of Southern States. The author has been called the “architect of Confederate nationalism.” He primed the Southern mind for secession years before his dream of the “Southern Confederacy” was finally realized. Of course, he never lived to see the rise nor the fall of the Confederate States of America, but some of his predictions are startlingly uncanny. Newly typeset and formatted to be compatible with the innovations of the electronic reader, this book is a “must read” for the “Civil War Buff,” or anyone who loves a good story.