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thorough was the change on the face of Southern society as the result of the war, that it has been found impossible to trace the history of most of these young men. It is khown that many of them became officers in the army on the one side and the other, some rising to considerable distinction. During the hostilities Judge Green, the oldect man among the law professors, re mained quietly at home. He deplored se cession and disunion. He loved the Union, and in his youth had given proof of his devotion by enlisting and serving as a soldier in the War of 1812-1815. In all his speeches and lectures he had argued and spoken for the integrity of the Union of our fathers. Upon the subject of slavery, although himself a slaveholder, he had adopted and expressed the opinion that slavery was an evil morally, socially, and po litically, — a sentiment which Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Clay, and many other Southern states men had uttered long before. He insisted, however, that it was an evil to the master rather than to the slave, but that in the providence of God it had been a great in cidental blessing to both races. He denied with great vehemence the right of the people of the North, by congressional legislation, to interfere with the institution either in the States or Territories. When therefore the issue came, he took distinct and un equivocal ground in favor of resistance on the part of the South. His opinions were well known and freely expressed; still he was not molested, either in person or prop erty, by the United States troops, who oc cupied the country much of the time. This was due, no doubt, in part to his gray hairs and quiet demeanor, and in part to the influ ence of certain distinguished men who were Unionists and who were his warm personal friends. Judge Caruthers was equally a pronounced friend of union and opposer of secession. On several occasions, in addressing the students before the public, he uttered the most eloquent and burning sentiments in

favor of an undivided country. But when the proclamation of the President came asking the people to volunteer to fight their brethren of the seceded States, and it became evident that every man must make his choice, he too determined to go with his people, and did not hesitate to advise resistance. He was elected to the Lower House of the Legislature of Ten nessee from the county of Wilson in 1861, and served in the body that pronounced a separation of the State from the Union. When the country was occupied by the soldiers of the United States, apprehending an arrest, he left his home and went to the town of Marietta, Ga., where, away from his family and friends, he died among strangers on the fifth day of May, 1862, in the sixtieth year of his age. Thus departed one of the purest men and one of the greatest lawyers ever produced in this country. Judge Caruthers left but one legal work; that is his far-famed " His tory of a Lawsuit," which is still a text book in the school which he founded, and is upon the shelves of the lawyers and judges in every town in Tennessee and in many other States. John C. Carter, who was a law professor for a short time, became a brigadier-general in the Confederate army. In the attack on the Federal forces at Franklin, Tenn., in December, 1864, he was mortally wounded and died in a very short time afterward. He lost his life not in an effort to perpetuate slavery, not simply from a desire to dismem ber the union of States, but in a conscien tious belief that it was necessary to fight in order to preserve some of the cherished doctrines of the Constitution which were supposed to be threatened. Upon this ground thousands of the best and noblest sons of the South fought, and thousands fell. Not that they loved the Union less, but the principles of the Constitution — as they understood them — more. Judge Ridley, who before the beginning of the war had resigned his place as law profes