The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-06-07
NUMBER 50.
j. @. A. Fellows.
[From the Iberville Pioneer and News !

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IFrom the Iberville Pioneer and News:l
One Of the names especially well
known to Louisiana is that of John
Quincy Adams Fellows. A naJive OF
Vermont, he took root in .our State
fifteen years before the war and has
commanded legal practice with
which that of very few counsellors in
any State can compare in extent and
which nothing but a high personal
and professional reputation could
assure. In 1861, when intolerance
ran wanton, it became known that
Mr.. Fellows, hitherto quietly affirma-
tive as Il Wing citizen, would not dis
avow his obligation to the National
Government nor acquiesce in the
mutimous pretensions ofevery ninety
nine in hundred of his neighbors.
He was admonished that his obduracy
would imperil his professional pat
ronage-he was abandoned or .oftener
frowned upon by old friends, but he
had chosen his path and never de-
parted from it. On the advent of
Federal troops in New Orleans, in the
environs of which city he has a mag
nifcent residence located III an ample
private park, he was almost the first
citizen whose opinion and counsel was
sought by the national authorities.
Offered several responsible stations,
he declined them all, but upon request
indicated for the vacant judicial
benches and other posts honest Union
lists, who in every instance proved
during their tenure the correctness of
his Judgment. AS in 81 he boldly re-
sented the curiosity betrayed by Gov.
Moore as to his course, - in ga be
took issue with General Banks MS to
the latter's method of re-establishing
the State. Banks secretly aspired to
enter the U. S. Senate from Louisiana
and the composition of a friendly State
administration was the best means to
that end, as he. vainly believed. Mr..
Fellows was beaten in the contest as
Governor by Michael Hahn, but Banks
whole project proved an idle one.
Congress by its subsequent recon-
struction laws dismissed the whole
chapter of the ga regime and bade
Louisiana that she had not been re-
admitted and must do like every
other insurgent State before she could
be.
From that time until last autumn,
Mr.. Fellows participated in no wise
in politics except at times to rebuke
Warmoth's wantonness or profession
ally circumvent it in the courts. Con-
servative by nature, the early pro
gress OF the Republican party did not
command his sympathy; this fact may
be largely imputed to the intemperate
course of certain of the earlier leaders
of that sect. But like many inseter-
ate Wings, he always abl'onred the
Democracy, and III the last canvass
when that party presented its candi-
dates by the grace Of Marmotls, Mr.
Fellows announced himself as llaving
been for over two years q member OF
the Republican party, to which tho
old Wing element of the nation gave
birth. He did this not as q candidate,
but as citizen solicitous for the
amelioration Of the commonwealth
upon Republican bases. We do not
hesitate to say that j. @. A. Fellows
and Jno. A. Stevenson did more az
old citizens of Louisiana to quicken in
the old white population sympathy
for the Republican scheme than all
others Of its sponsors, long resident
in her borders, combined. It was tho
same conviction of duty. the same
instinct of hostility to the Dem ocrat,
that controlled Mr.. Fellows in ~ as
in 6l. He is man about six feet in
height, stout in proportion, and with
a remarkably handsome face, III tho
chin of which is massive hint Of iron-
A keen eye, suggestive Of an abun-
dant powdcr-magazin within and u
decided manner tempered with nat
ural urbanity, completes the picture
There is nothing of the spaniel il
him, but there is much of the mastiE
He never lets go. His fidelity to his
legal cases is a s;lnguine fidelity, what
ever adverse chances bef,ll. After
fighting the Crescent Slaughter House
monopoly for four years and exper-
iencing two reverses in the Z. s. Su-
preme Court, he has just begun anew
and in the Superior District Court Of
New Orleans has dealt the mon0polya
fatal stab in Il new vital part and will
pursue it again to Washington, where
it can hardly expect judicial refuge
again. Mrs. Gen. Gaines baffled in
the assertion of her titles for years
and diss,laded by scores of lawyers
from making further attempts, sud-
denly finds Mr.. Fellows achieving
triumphs for her, and money pouring
into her lap. Our readers can readily
understand why the national Govern
ment might value such Union cham
pion here in 1861 and VIC will add
here that Messrs. Packard and Eel
lows did more to convince the Legis-
lative branches of that government
during the recent discussion therein
of the Louisiana problem, of the eclaims
of the Republican party than all other
persons from our State. Both were
i'll Washington during that discussion.
Mr.. Fellows is now Assistant Attorney
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