New-York tribune., 1896-12-08

canvass Of the State urging acquescenoee IN sne
election Of President nson whan hne South Carolina
Sent Commissioners to tho other southern ''ates 'in
to insist on hsr following scnmeni nfr sSas again
aroused and State convention 'S,a;c WA, "a ,n,r fol-
lowed. in which Fellows and other unonis,i ora
tors joined. The election for deleea.es The m
an Overwhelming majority against secession ne
but adjourned to meet at the eau OF ths 'haii. i,
made ,'e Change ane in Arkansas the State seeded
and recruiting for the coniedera,c 10, Hsi Rarmep Of
Arkansas Volunteers. commanded by Colonel James
a. ras11 m sfryrS n the Vygna campagn of ISL
and the following year In the army OF nehe'at ~
hoS s,rheH snd ihc srse Of cornth Miss lie
promoted to coloneicy and assigned 10 ,ne Si'
division under General Van Dorm in The Depart Del r
Of East % Por
La; After the fall of Vicksburg July =. ls's ooio
ne ws m to- csSSr 4np Bank and
,ia,ions were opened which resulted m he v h
Union , troops m s' on July g. 1853 The men were pa,
rolled and and the officers were held as he1 %
were sent to Johnsons Island. in Lake Erie, ti on
Sandusky. Ohio, where they were detained nno
ended Colonel Fellowss active service He re-,
turned TO Camden. and practsed law thefe; IN IN
1866 he was elected Senator in the Legislature OF
Arkansas. and in 1868 to this city as a dele
gate to the Haona ,he rcacst Of
Governor Seymour he sumped The state for me the
Democratic ticket. and after It's de1eat Dtcdinc
guest of the Ex-Governor at Deerfield.
HIS HOME IN THIS CITY.
Later. he made his home in this city and opened
law office, but he was appointed an assistant
by District-Attorney Garvin. at Seymours in
stance. taking the vacancy caused by the election
of Surrogate Hutchinson. lie served as Assistant
District Attorney for four years until BonJamin
X Phelps elected by the Republicans. For
two years Colonel Fellows was counsel for the Ex-
else Board. but In 1881 John Mckeon became Dis
trict-AttoTney, and the Colonel returned 10 MS
former place He was retained by Peter B. olnesy
1887 he was elected Disrict-Attorney over DE
Lancey Nico, and held the office one term of three
years In 1890 he was elected TO Congress from the
With District, succeeding Charles H. Turner the
''Iceman"
He was elected to Congress again in 1892 from the
XIVth District. He resigned his seat In Congress
in the following year. when he was candidate ior
ceed De Lancey Nicoll. and began his second term
in whch Colonel eows first
the office of Distrct-At torney he was opposed to
port of his candidacy and another letter adXoca'hg
the election of Colonel Fellows was written ny
Christian life" Of the candidate often repeated
in Jest Colonel Fellows was elected to Congress
and elected Dlstric-Attorney for second Term
In the fall Of 1894 charges of neglect of duty were
mit,ee Of Good Government club men. headed by
Preble Tucker. Governor Flower had the charges
charges on December %, 1894.
Colonel Fellows went to the Chicago Convention
last a delegate elected by Tammany
Hail. and in the Convention he worked hard TO
prevent the adoption of the freesilver plank in the
platform. He among the first of the prominent
Democrats in this city 10 bolt the Chicago plat
form and ticket and he went as delegate from
this city to the indianapolis Convention that nomi-
mated Palmer and Buckner In the campaign ne
absent from the city most of the time. making
speeches for sound money. Many of his speeches
were delivered In the South
KNOWN AS AN ORATOR
Colonel Fellows had wide reputation as an
orator and criminal lawyer. and as a campaign or
ator. He had been a familiar figure in Democratic
National conventions in the last thirty years. In
! 1884 he supported the claims of Grover Cleveland
against the eloquence of W. Bourke Cochran who
represented Tammany Hall Four years before. at
the Democratic Convention held In Cincinnati.
Colonel Fellows and John Kelly enacted the famous
reconciliation which followed the nomination
of General Hancock.
The Colonel assisted In the prosecution OF the
murderers Carpenter. Carlton. Giblin and Stokes.
and also in the case OF Ferdinand Ward. who has
served his time in State Prison after receiving
a ten years sentence. He took part also In the
trials of the doodle Aldermen. and in the con-
viction of Jaehne, McQuade O'Neil and Jacob
Sharp.
Colonel Fellows short of stature. and some
of his admirers thought he looked like stephen a.
Douglas He had large head. clean-shavcn
| face and a genial companion. He married IN
| 1867. His wife and several children survive him.