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CHAPTER XVII. . 32?33. INTRODUCTORY SUMMARY. LETTERS FROM HOOPER,
SIR N. DIJ- KINFIELD, PIERCE BUTLER, IREDELL, REV. A. IREDELL, S.
JOHNSTON, AND H. E. M'CULLOH. Mr. Iredell continued during the year
'84 actively engaged in his professional avocations. At the close
of the war commenced an animated struggle between military men and
those who, amid the clash of arms, had been overshadowed. Upon the
return of peace, those accustomed to command could not, without a
sigh or effort, surrender their authority to others. Then began a
contest, fierce enough, between thought and action: but, as must
always necessarily happen where the press is unshackled and freedom
of debate exists, mind soon established its ascendency. The return
of the Tories, and their strenuous efforts to procure the
restoration of their property; the activity of the lawyers,
stimulated by the opening of a lucrative career; the commencement
of new, the revival of long dormant suits ? all conspired to foster
exasperation, cupidity, avarice, revenge. It is never to be
expected that immediately after a revolution effected by arms, the
passions of the combatants will subside; and that trade and the
currents of life will return to their wonted channels. The sea,
disturbed to its depths, does not sleep quietly as soon as the
storm is stilled; troubled dreams are, long afterward, attested by
its heaving bosom. A very violent prejudice, at this period,
existed in narrow and vulgar minds against the legal profession:
this antipathy was fomented by many persons of more talent and less
principle, as a means of destroying those whom they feared as
rivals, and as an instrument by which they might effect their
political ends. The lawyers of the State were generally
conservatives; hence it was that they excited, i...
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