Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-31
FORREST AND KILPAT.
RICK.
A CaustIc Letter-FOrrest DenOuneeS
Fitzpatrick as n Liar and POItrOOn.

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Fitzpatrick as n Liar and POltrOOn.
MEMPHIS, October %. 1S60.-H. K.
Shackleford, Esq, New Haven, Connecti-
cut-Sir The false and mendaclous repre-
sentation of me, made by Gen. Judson
Fitzpatrick, Of New Haven, on the 10Th
inst, to which you call my attention, is not
the first in which he has INDUCED since his
appearance on the hastings in this canvass.
l understand he freely employed his crlmi-
nal capacity for ribald invention in all OF
the speeches he has made since his return
to the country, and that l have been the
objective point of many Of his unprincipled
and indecent libels. The Northern masses
have been so prone to misunderstood any
appearance that Ihave made in the present
campaign that | have been content, here
tofore, to foregO any notice of Gen. Kllpat-
ricks inventions with reference to myself,
and to trust that some future and more
suspicious time would afford me an oppor-
tunity of stripping the impostor and OF ex-
posing him, the base counterfeit he IL, to
the contempt of all just and lr-mlnded
people. Ny forbearance, however, Is con-
strued by him az license TO additional
and more slanderous detractiOn, and l am
constrained to notice his New Haven
speech, as it appeared in the Register, OF
October 81, 1868. In that speech he is re-
ported as saying that Forrest had mailed
neqrOes to fences, set fire to the fences and
burned the negroes to death"
This charge is but the natural Offspring
of Kilpatrick' g common and merited fame
as an unprinciPied and easy liar. Ii il
enough for me 10 say, in which / believe |
Nv ohiut lrfp CfInar
and soldier of the Federal army, that what
he has said of me in the speech referred 10
| ia the elimination of slanderous falsehOOd,
rendered the more odious tn at it is delibe-
rately forged for effect upon the unthink-
| ing and too confding portion of the people
| ofIhe North, whose votes he intends to steal
nv such criminal and disreputable inven-
! ton. All such reports, whether emana-
| tinp from this creature fitzpatrick, or from
| auV one else, which tend in any way to
| q cate the impression that | conducted my
! humble part in the war upon any other
| than the strictest principles of civilized
/ warfare. are utterly untrue, and are the
| corrupt and feculent fictions of design
! inc and rascally slanderers. am not
| nrone TO obtrnde matters Of this kind
| upon the public notice, and would
| have been glad to have met Kill
pstrick and settle this affair in less pub
lie and more emphatic manner; and if it
should happen that this note should meet
his eve, and he should make it the provo
cation of any additional display of wOrls,
apy one who may hear him is at liberty TO
assure him that l am ready to meet him in
any way that he may choose, and whilst |
am averse to personal conflict l should
much perfer to crafty any wish he may
cherish in that way to being the further
subiect of his unmanly defamation and un'
goldierlike misrepresentation.
think the public will justify me in de-
nouncing, as l ROW do, General Judson
Fitzpatrick as a BLACKBOARD, liar, a scOun
drei and poltroon. If he is the heroic figure
he would have the Northern people be
lieve him, my friend General Basil W
Duke, at Louisville, Kentucky, Is author
lied on my behalf to receive any com
munication he may choose TO make.
Respectfully,
n. B. FORREST.