Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-05-13


state of turmoil. He is fierce, resolute
and bold; hating the white people with
a sort of bloodhound ferocity, and never
satisfied unless in brOil. He succeeded
in completely superceding Calhoun in
control of the negroes, and became alb
sOlute dictator among them, while the
latter sunk into utter insignificance.
kellogg himself stands in perfect terror
of this fierce and forceful black, in whose
hands he is as wax, yielding, where the
solicitations are made in person, all his
requests or demands, and cursing him
from the bottom of his heart when his
shad ow leaves the door.
FLOWERS.
Flowers, who seems to have beer, next
to Ward, the most conspicuous person
age in getting Up the "war," is yellow
fellow also from Ohio, and is a mild
type of Ward. He was prominent as
pirant for the liberal nomination for
congress for the short term from his dis
trict, and was nominated for that posi-
ton by the Pinchback convention, but
subsequently dropped when the Pinch
hackers and KellOggites combined. Lott
was substituted.
The chief among the white leaders of
the negroes, and certainly the most ma
of them, was man by the name
of Register. This fellow in 1868 made
himself conspicuous in this locality as
an associate of negroes; he was for a
short time chief of police of Shreveport,
and was commonly regarded as a low
fellow, little, if any, removed from a
thief. He here began his vocation as an
agitator, and busted himself in stirring
up the negroes to commit the outrages
which resulted in the Bossier riot of Oc-
tober, 1858. This country became too hot
for the scoundrel after that, and he trans
ferred his carpetbag to the newly organ
iZed parish of Grant, where he resumed,
with renewed ardOT, his efforts to en-
broiI the whites and negroes. Two
years ago, when Governor Warmoth
demanded of the negro militia of that
parish the arms with which the State
had furnished them, and which they had
abused in acts of robbery and murder,
Register advised the negroes to refuse to
obey the order of the Governor, and
they acted on his advice. When, pre-
commissions arrived in Grant
to inquire into alleged disorders, and
spoke of sending white troops there,
Register advised that negro troops be
sent, because they would deal more
roughly with the whites. He was par
active in melting the negroes
in the late riot, and, like the cowardly
that he is, fed when his work
was approaching its bloody consumma-
ton.
RAILEY.
We noticed some days ago that our
able contemporary, the New Orleans
PjcGyuae, gave Railey the benefit of a
denial that he had anything to do with
the Grant riot. The Picdyltne was i'm
posed upon. Railey is a common white
lived, boarded, and slept
with the negroes; and if he had no in
fluence in melting them to their recent
folly, it was because they had too much
contempt for him to heed his incendiaIy
teachings.
GREEN BRANTLEY.
Green Brantley, another man who
made himself conspicuous in the events
that preceded and led to the ColfaX
fight, is a white man. He is a member
Of a respectable family, and served cred
itably in the Confederate army, but the
wa left him penniless, and he had not
the courage to go manfully to work for
an honest living, and became a sort of
yenteel dead-beat. When he had about
exhausted this role, he heard while de-
Red river, of wealthy white
man in the parish of Winn who had
.wO OctOrOOn daughters, and who had
offered any genteel white man who
would marry one of them a "sub-
,idy" of twenty-five thousand dol
ars, cash. Brantley determined to
accept the offer, and visited the To-
,ality with a view of consummating
he matter. He was a man of good
Ooks and pleasing address; he borrowed
/ few hundred dollars, bought a fine
horse and buggy, cut a swell in the
leighborhoOd, and began his wooing.
Nhe girl was fair, well educated and
we'll brought up-in short, the marriage
vas consummated, the old man prompt
y paid down the twenty-five thousand
iOllars, and Brantley was for a time
happy. But his family discarded him,
ais former friends snubbed him, and he
ound, it seems, but poor consolation in
he endeaTments of his cOlOred wife. He
ook to drinking and its accompanying
'ices, and in a short time the rewards
If his disgraceful alliance were spent
md he left penniless. We hear of him
leXt about eighteen months ago, in
Vim parish, where, we are told, he was
he confederate of the band of horse
hieves and murderers who, about that
ime, spread terror through that and ad-
dining parishes. We are not informed
IS to the date of his arrival in Grant,
,ut since he has been there he has dis
inguished himself as an agitator. AT
he late election he, with Ward and
'thers, attempted to seize and destroy
he election returns, knowing they were
diverse to the Radical candidates. We
ire told that his unfortunate wife has
,ecome disgusted with him and left him.