Excerpt from On International Copyright: In a Letter to the Hon. William C. Preston, Senator of the United StatesIN addressing to you this letter on a subject, on which I know full well that I am unable to com municate to you any material information, I feel that I stand in need of your indulgence. My only reason for taking this liberty, is the desire of expressing a grateful acknowledgment, due from every 'one who considers our national honor and interest to be involved in the question of interna tional copyright, to you, and to all who take an active part in bringing about a law which the plainest justice seems strongly to demand, and who are not disheartened by repeated failures from persevering in' this just cause. I thank you most sincerely for your promise to persevere until justice' shall have received its due. Perhaps I have been prompted, likewise, by the desire of invitin g through your name, that degree of attention at the hands of the public, which it otherwise might not have felt inclined to bestow upon these fugitive lines.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.