. Historic towns of the Southern States. THE CRITTENDEN RESIDENCE. THE FIRST BRICK HOUSE BUILT IN LITTLE ROCK. NOW THE HOME OF GOVERNORJAMES P. EAGLE. were all lawyers. In the early days of the Re-public the position of lawyers was much morecommanding than it is at present. Theirsocial influence has waned before the aristoc-racy of wealth ; and their political power haslargely passed to the boss and the machine,whose authority rests on a more material. 552 Little Rock basis than eloquence and reason. And neverwas there a city so dominated by its bar asLittle Rock in the olden times. Everything
. Historic towns of the Southern States. THE CRITTENDEN RESIDENCE. THE FIRST BRICK HOUSE BUILT IN LITTLE ROCK. NOW THE HOME OF GOVERNORJAMES P. EAGLE. were all lawyers. In the early days of the Re-public the position of lawyers was much morecommanding than it is at present. Theirsocial influence has waned before the aristoc-racy of wealth ; and their political power haslargely passed to the boss and the machine,whose authority rests on a more material. 552 Little Rock basis than eloquence and reason. And neverwas there a city so dominated by its bar asLittle Rock in the olden times. Everythingcircled around the great lawyers. Even thewealth of the community was mostly in theirhands. The houses of the citizens were sfen-erally of wood, and usually stood upon thestreet; but scattered about there arose thestately mansions of the leaders of the bar,—of Ashley, Pike, Trapnall, Fowler, Crittenden,Hempstead and others, encircled by extensivegrounds and shaded by patriarchal trees, dom-inatintr- the surroundinor dwellinofs almost likefeudal chateaux. In these mansions were con-centrated the social and intellectual life of thecommunity, and its history was the story oftheir daily struggles for pre-eminence. So Little Rock grew and flourished, mendwelling in peace beneath their vines and figtrees, until the year 1861 brought up the mo-mentous question of disunion and war. Ar-kansas was strongly attached to the Union. Inits mountainous regfi
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