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After the war, Pike returned to the practice of law, moving to New Orleans for a time beginning in 1853.

He wrote another book, Maxims of the Roman Law and some of the Ancient French Law, as Expounded and Applied in Doctrine and Jurisprudence.

Although unpublished, this book increased his reputation among his associates in law.

He returned to Arkansas in 1857, gaining some amount of prominence in the legal field and becoming an advocate of slavery, although retaining his affiliation with the Whig party.

When that party dissolved, he became a member of the Know-Nothing party.

Before the Civil War he was firmly against secession, but when the war started he nevertheless took the side of the Confederacy.

At the Southern Commercial Convention of 1854, Pike said the South should remain in the Union and seek equality with the North, but if the South " were forced into an inferior status, she would be better out of the Union than in it.