Samuel A. Hale was editor of the "Flag of the Union," at Tuskaloosa, where I formed his acquaintance in 1837. He and Mr. James Phelan were afterward elected Public Printers. He sold out his interest in the office to John McCormick, Esq., about 1843, and then removed to Livingston, where he has since been In justice to Mr. Hale, it may be said, that he was uniformly opposed to what he considered the extravagant assumptions and pretensions of the State Rights party, which culminated (to use his own language) in the secession of the Southern States — "the most stupendous act of folly the world has ever seen. If the headstone of my grave should bear no other inscription, I would have it there recorded, that I was opposed to secession."