Présentation de l'éditeur
Randell Hunt was identified with many of the chief events in the history of the Southern States of this country. He was conspicuous in the Unionist convention which considered the ordinance of nullification in South Carolina ;he was a constitutional lawyer of reputation and of profound learning ;he was a professor of law in the University of Louisiana for about forty years, and for a long time its president; he was a leader of the state senators in the legislature of his State; he took a prominent part in seeking to preserve the Union in gloomy days when secession was gaining ground in the South; he was an orator whose voice rose in eloquent and fearless appeals for the safety of the nation when civil war seemed imminent ;he was for over twenty-five years, as Chief Justice Chase pronounced him, the king of the bar of Louisiana :yet, aside from mere newspaper accounts, no memoir of his life has been written. Certainly the influence of such a man has formed an important part of the history of the States in which he lived, and a brief account of his political and professional deeds, and of the virtues of a career which is so indelibly identified with the progress of his time, may be accepted as a well-meant contribution to the biographical records of our country.
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