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Down a hill — in whichever way one goes, he has to go down 

 a hill — and across the railroad is the fine old home of Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor Moren, one of the few Lieutenant-Governors 

 Alabama has ever had. And, like the present Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor, Dr. Cunningham, Dr. Moren was a ph^-sician. He was 

 a strong man, a man with ability and force of character. A 

 special interest attaches to him because his term as a Demo- 

 cratic State official was sandwiched in between two Radical 

 Reconstruction administrations. And during a crisis in these 

 trying times, as a Democratic official he held the reins of gov- 

 ernment over the Senate with a strong hand and in imminent 

 danger of personal violence. It was one of the many dramatic 

 incidents in Alabama's history of which the people of the State 

 are only too ignorant. 



HIS OLD HOME. 



The old home of the Lieutenant-Governor is still in a fair 

 state of preservation, at the foot of the hills, with the Cahaba 

 River running behind it not so many yards away. It sits in 

 an old-fashioned flower yard shaded with oaks and mock orange 

 trees, and surrounded by fertile acres of corn and cotton. 



It is one of the rich plantations of the whole section. The 

 whole of it is on the river, and that which is in sight of the 

 home is almost as level as a floor. It is a beautiful place for 

 farming. And the place has been prosperous' throughout all 

 its years. 



"It is a fine place, a very fine place," said F. H. Nunnellee, 

 of The Centreville Press, who had pointed it out. "It is, 

 however, a fair sample of the fertility of the land which lies 

 along the river and in the southwestern portion of the county. 

 All the Moren acres would total up about 2,000. The Howison 

 place has 5,000 acres in it, the Davidson place 3,000 acres, the 

 Cooper place 1,000 acres, the Avery place probably 2.000. So 

 you see we have some big plantations here in Bibb, as well as 

 the Black Belt folks. In the best farming country of Bibb 

 County, across the river, and in the western portion of the 

 county, the land is as rich as that of the big cotton section to 

 the south of us. I dare say our crops will equal the best of 

 theirs. In this section of which I speak the land is held at too 

 high a figure. Some of it, I dare say, could not be bought 



