BEAUTIES

OF THE

HON. DANIEL WEBSTER;

SELECTED AND ARRANGED,

WITH A

CRITICAL ESSAY ON HIS GENIUS AND

WRITINGS.

BY JAMES REES.

NEW-YORK:

J. AND H. G. LANGLEY, 57 CHATHAM STREET.

1839.

(Entered according to the Act of Congress of the United States of

America, in the year 1939, by James Rees, in the Clerk's Office of the Southern Disirict of New York.]

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TO THE FRIENDS OF

LIBERTY

THROUGHOUT THE WORLD ;

AND TO THE

ADMIRERS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

IN ITS PURITY,

THE FOLLOWING SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF THE

HON. DANIEL WEBSTER,

ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY

THE EDITOR.

New York, Jan. 1839.