The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1

VOLUME I.
EIGHTH EDITION
BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY. 1854.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by George W. Gordon and James W. Paige, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED BY METCALF AND COMPANY, PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. PRINTED AT HOUGHTON AND HAYWOOD

DEDICATION OF THE FIRST VOLUME. TO MY NIECES, MRS. ALICE BRIDGE WHIPPLE, AND MRS. MARY ANN SANBORN:
Many of the Speeches contained in this volume were delivered and printed in the lifetime of your father whose fraternal affection led him to speak of them with approbation.
His death, which happened when he had only just past the middle period of life, left you without a father, and me without a brother.
I dedicate this volume to you, not only for the love I have for yourselves, but also as a tribute of affection to his memory, and from a desire that the name of my brother,
EZEKIEL WEBSTER,