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Much valuable information can be acquired from arguments upon which learned counsel have spent weeks and months of thought and labor, revealing, in some instances, the results of a lifetime of study and research-information of incalculable practical value to lawyers in the active practice of their profession. Great profit will also be derived from studying the plan which successful advocates have pursued in presenting a cause to the court or jury; and the manner in which they have arranged and woven their materials, so as to persuade the will, excite the sympathies, or convince the judgment.

Care has been taken to give the speeches or arguments in full, omitting only detailed statements of evidence of no general interest, whenever such omission could be made without disturbing the plan and harmony of the argument.

The original purpose of the publishers was to make the work so full and complete, that they might with propriety call it a "Cyclopedia of Legal Eloquence, Argument, and Opinion." But whether they will be able to succeed in so ambitious an undertaking must depend upon the favor with which this volume is received. If it meets with the approval and support of the profession and the public, two additional volumes will be produced, which it is believed will be sufficient to properly present the design of the work. It is hoped that the book may be useful as a work of reference as well as a standard collection of legal eloquence.

On behalf of the publishers and myself, I cordially thank those gentlemen who have given access to their libraries and manuscripts during the preparation of this work, and for the kindly interest they have manifested in its success.

NEW YORK, March, 1881.

WILLIAM L. SNYDER.

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