Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-11-13

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MEMPHIS, October 2s, 1868.
II. X. shockeIford, ESQ.,,
New Haven, Connecticut.
SIR: The false and mendacious
representation of me, made by Gen.
eral Judson Fitzpatrick, of New Ha-
ven, on the 26th instant, to which
you call my attention, is not the first
I'm which he has indulged since his
appearance on the hustings in this
canvass. understand he freely EN-.
ployed his criminal capacity for ri.
bald invention I'M all of the speeches
he has made since his return to this
country, and that / have been the
objective point of many Of his un.
principled and indecent libeis. The
Northern masses have been so prone
to misunderstand any appearance
that 1 have made in the present cam
paign, that / have been content,
heretofore, to f0rego any notice oi
General Kilpatrick's inventions in
regard to myself, and to trust that
some future and more arspicious time
would afford me an opportunity oi
stripping the impostor and exposing
him, the base counterfeit he is, to the
contempt Of all just and fair minded
people. My forbearance, however, Il
construed by him as u license to addi-
tional and more slanderous detrac-
ton, and am constrained to notice
his New Haven speech, as it appear
ed In the Register Of October, 81, '6S.
In that speech he Is reported as say
ing that "Forrest had nailed negroes
to fences, set fire to the fences, and
burned the negroes to DEATH"
The charge Is but the natural off.
spring Of Kiipatrick's common and
merited fame as an unprincipfed and
easy liar. 1t Is enough for me to say,
In which feel 1 will be believed and
sustained by every chivalric officer
and soldier of the Federal army, that
what he has said of me in the speech
referred to, Is the elimination oI
slanderous faIsehood, rendered the
more odious that It Is deliberately
forged for effect upon the unthinlxing
and too cOnfiding portion of the peo-
pie of the North, whose votes he in.
tends to steal by such criminal and
disreputable inventions. As such re.
ports, whether emanating from this
creature Fitzpatrick, or from any one
else, which tend i'm any way to create
the impression that l conducted my
humble part i'm the war tipofi any
other than the strictest principles O
civilized warfare, are utterly untrue
and are the corrupt and feculent fic
tions of designing and rascally Sian
derers. am not prone to obtrud,
matters Of this kind upon the publ,
notice, and would have been glad Il
have met Fitzpatrick and settled thi
affair I'm less public and more EN-
phatic manner; and IL 1t should hap
pen that this note should meet hi
eye, and he should make 1t the pro
vocation of any additional display O
words, any one who may hear him Il
at liberty to assure him that l an
ready to meet him in any way tina
he may choose, and whilst ! an
averse to any personal conflict,
should much prefer to crafty any
wish he may cherish I'm that way, Il
being the further subject of his un
manly defamation and unsoldierlik
Representations.
i i think the public will justify M
in denOuncing, as now do, Genera
Judson Fitzpatrick as a blackguard, ,
} liar, a scOundrel and poltroOn. If h
Is the heroic figure he would have tn
\ Northern people believe him, m,
friend, General Basil w. Duke, a
Louisville, Kentucky, is authorize,
n to receive on my behalf any commu
nication he may choose to make.
j Respectfully,
4 n. B. FORREST