During his long life Robert M. T. Hunter was present from Thomas Jefferson's founding of the University of Virginia, through Jackson's destruction of the national bank, tariffs, the Mexican War, the Oregon border dispute, the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas- Nebraska Act, state's rights, secession, Civil War, slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, Readjustment, and post-war racial relations until the era of Grover Cleveland. Hunter's strength as a...
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