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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of

New York.

TO

THE HONORABLE WILLIAM C. PRESTON,

OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

MY DEAR SIR,

A grateful recollection of your many acts of kindness extended to me during my course in the South Carolina College, while preparing to enter upon the walks of life which you already adorned, and the cheering encouragement which you gave me when engaged in the study of a profession which your eloquence has so nobly illustrated, inspire the wish to leave some recorded expression of my exalted estimate of your genius and your character, and I therefore

Juscribe to you this Volume of my Speeches.

Montgomery, Ala., February, 1855.

HENRY W. HILLIARD.