| Summary: | Topics discussed in these letters include state politics and government, particularly the Republican party, the Democratic and Conservative Party of Alabama, electioneering, and campaign management; railroad development in the state and indebtedness due to defaults on bonds by railroad builders; real property in Alabama and Iowa; the cultivation and marketing of cotton and other agricultural products; taxation; farm tenancy; banks and banking; African Americans and racism; the Alabama Insane Hospital; and Moren's business affairs. Among the correspondents are Benjamin H. Screws (Montgomery Advertiser); J. D. P. Wilkinson; P. H. Pitts; Burwell B. Lewis; Daniel Pratt; William L. Bradley (of Dubuque Iowa); B. Miner; W. Garrett; A. B. Cooper; John W. Callahan; J. W. Lapsley; Walter L. Bragg (State Democratic Executive Committee); George Goldthwaite; J. N. Suttle; Francis W. Sykes; John Moore; Edmund Harrison; Carlisle and Humphries; Hudson, Kennedy and Co.; and Kirksey and Carpenter. Moren was a surgeon in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and later returned to Alabama, where he was active in state politics. He served as a member of the Senate (1861 to 1869 and 1884 to 1885), a member of the House of Representatives (1882 to 1883), and the lieutenant governor (1871 to 1873).
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