The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-13

q ted to the bar, unconscious that great honors. honors like the governorship or Alabama awaited him. At the first court or Madison county another young ian yer was admitted to the bar. He' too. became Governor of Alabama anu member of the United States senate. James w. Walker at the same term of court was admitted to the par ho too becames United States Sen~tor' Marmaduke Williams who rose 10 ois- tinction and other prominent attor neys of North Alabama became law yers at this term. A few years later John Mckinley was granted license. Hei became a learned lawyer and was IAlabama's contribution to the Supreme Court of the United States The par was strengthened in this period oy the addition of William Kelly, destined to be United States Senator, Hugh Mc- Way. a future Governor, Arthur Hop kins, who was to become the brilliant leader of the whig party in Alabama Henry w. Collier set apart by fortune to be Governor and Chief Justice or the Supreme Court.
 And at the same time the brilliant. but cratic. James c. Birney began his | career. After becoming a successful lawyer and a man of means, he sold | AtS ctdNGSs uOFeQ HOEtH, eAS Abolition Party and became It's first | candidate for the Presidency. Nine | of the Governors of Alabama have been l identified with Huntsville either by birth or residence; the two Bibbs, Ga- briel Moore, c. c. Clay, Reuben Chap | man, John A. Winston, Robert Patton, D. F. Lewis and E. A. O'NeaL The county has furnished eight United States Senators and two Confederate State Senators. The former were John w. Walker. Vim. Kelly, Henry Chambers, John Mckinley, Gabriel Moore. c c. Clay, Jere Clemens and c. c. Clay, Jr. The Confederate States Sem
 ators were c. c. Clay, Jr., and Richard
 w. Walker. Leroy Pope Walker, of Huntsville was Secretary of War for
 the Confederacy and President of the
 Constitutional Convention of 1875.
 It is a fifine exhibit, this list of
 names. Can any other county of Ala
 bama produce so fine a roll of honor
 It is the early period of Huntsville
 history, that golden age of talent, to
 which the mind of the thoughtful wis
 itor reverts when he comes to Hunts
 vile. Not that it affords any great
 contrast with the Huntsville of today
 The city is not now and has never been
 without able men. without learned men without leaders. The city today Is inn
 pressively prosperous. It is the great
 est cotton manufacturing city in Ala
 bama and one of the greatest in the South. Other manufacturing enter
 prises contribute to it's prosperity. Its
 business grows, and Its prosperity in- creases.
 Its beautiful shaded streets. its
 wealth of arborea1 loveliness, its olden homes. white pillared and hospitable
 are eloquent reminders of the past age of ante-bellum life and ante-bellum op- portunity for the display of talent.
 To the old homes that line the pike | there clings the traditions of the full free life. when 1t was not dishonorable
 to love pleasure, and when success was not the monopoly of narrowing toll, but could be won in other ways of charac- ter development One thinks of An- drew Jackson coming down from Nash vile with his strings of Tennessee horses for the races and stopping al the Green Bottom Inn. And at the Green Bottom Inn-what a name for a story-he met a choice collection of | sportsmen. We think of John Con. nolly. the famous old sporting character of the Green Bottom Inn and the pro. prietor of Connolly's race track. Nor should his famous slender racer Gray