. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . lso with his constituents, in regard tothe support of President Van Burens policy, heresigned his seat and resumed his law-practice in1842. He was president of the College of SoinhCarolina from 1845 till his retirement in he accepted the office the institution had lostmany members, but under his guidance it rose to aprosperity that it had never Before enjoyed, andbecame the most popular educational institution inthe south. He also established the (olumbia lyce-um, and gave it a large and valuable library. Har-vard gave him the degree o
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . lso with his constituents, in regard tothe support of President Van Burens policy, heresigned his seat and resumed his law-practice in1842. He was president of the College of SoinhCarolina from 1845 till his retirement in he accepted the office the institution had lostmany members, but under his guidance it rose to aprosperity that it had never Before enjoyed, andbecame the most popular educational institution inthe south. He also established the (olumbia lyce-um, and gave it a large and valuable library. Har-vard gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1846. Asa popular orator Mr. Preston was the peer of hismaternal uncle. Patrick Henry, in many his audiences to enthusiasm and the nextmoment moving them to tears. l\\- style lia- lieeiidescribed as florid, but his vocabulary was large,and the illustrations and classical allusions thatornamented his speeches were as naturally em-ployed in his familiar conversation. He was aclassical scholar, and it was universally. PRESTON PRESTON 115 admitted that he was the most finished orator thes< mill has ever produced. His distress at the seces-sion of the southern Democratic party in 1860 has-tened his end. When he was dying, his friend,James L. Petigru, said to him : 1 envy you, Pres-ton ; you are leaving it, and I shall have to stayand see it all. Preston signified, with a sigh ofrelief, that the words were true. He left no chil-dren.—Another son of Francis, John Smith,soldier, b. at the Salt Works, near Abingdon, Va.,•Jli April. 1809; d. in Columbia. S. 0., 1 May. 1881,was graduated at Hampden Sidney college in 1* lectures at the University of Virginia , and read law at Harvard. He marriedCaroline, daughter of Gen. Wade Hampton, in1830, and settled first in Abingdon. Va., and sub-sequently in Columbia, S. C. He engaged for sev-eral years in sugar-planting in Louisiana, but alsodevoted much time to literary pursuits and to theco
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