"William Pitt Ballinger"

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This paper discusses the work "William Pitt Ballinger", written by John Moretta. The paper describes the work as a very important and significant contribution to nineteenth century history. The work is a biography of the father of the legal profession in Texas, William Pitt Ballinger, and this paper describes his life and contributions to Texas during his lifetime.

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"At the time when there were large and widespread fears of financial insecurity in the time after the War, in the United States of America, individuals like William Pitt Ballinger, the federal judge and brilliant lawyer of Texas, and also, according to himself, a self acknowledged pardon broker in the year 1865, was in fact inundated with the number of requests from wealthy Southerners, asking for advice and suggestions and clarifications on any number of related issues. Some of the questions asked were: how open and explicit would one have to be in one's support of the Confederacy, if one wanted to become subject to the numerous laws of confiscation? Was acceptance proof enough to approval of the Confederacy? Was the net worth to be calculated on the antebellum value, or on the deflated and lower prices of 1865? (Carter, 103)"

Sample of Sources Used:

• Carter, Dan. T. When the War was over: the failure of self-reconstruction in the South, 1865 to 1867. LSU Press. 1985.
• Marten, James. Texas Divided, loyalty and dissent in the Lone Star state, 1856 to 1874. University Press of Kentucky. 1990.
• Moretta, John. William Pitt Ballinger: Texas Lawyer, Southern Statesman, 1825-1888. Retrieved from http://www.tamu.edu/upress/BOOKS/2000/moretta.htm Accessed 2 November, 2005

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