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The Daily Dispatch: February 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
y represented the Mobile district in Congress, and Hon. Judge Richard W. Walker, of Florence, Chairman of the Alabama Delegation in the present Confederate Congress. Hon. L. P. Walker at one time practised law in South Alabama, and was for several sessions Speaker of the House of Representatives of the State. He has been a consistent Democrat of the State-Rights school. For the last ten years he has been located in Huntsville, and has the reputation of being the leading lawyer, and, next to Clay, the leading Democrat of North Alabama. --Careful in the preparation of his cause, and clear, concise, logical and eloquent in presenting them before court, he is said to be an eminently successful practitioner. For the last three years he has been conspicuous in his denunciation of squatter sovereignty. In the Alabama Democratic Convention which took ground against it and sent a delegation to Charleston to carry out her instructed opposition, Gen. Walker's influence was marked and effectiv