Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-11-12
Cen. Forrtsi on KiIpnfrick.

MEMPHIS, Oct. 2S, 1868.
II. x. lSldckleford, Esq, Nec HdrH
Connecticut:
SrR-The false and mendacious rep
resentation of mo, made by General
Judson Fitzpatrick, of New Haven, on
the 10th instant, to which you call
my attention, is not the first in which
he has INDUCED since bis appearance
on the hustings in this canvass.
understand he freely employed his
criminal capacity for ribald invention
in all Of the speeches he has made
since his return 20 this country, and
that | have been the objective point
Of many of bis unprincipled and inde-
cent libels. The Northern masses
have been so prone to misunderstood
any appearance that 1 have made IN
tho present campaign that / have
been content, heretofore, 70 fOrego
any notice of Gen. Kilpatrick's inven-
tions with reference to myself, and to
trust that some future and more aus
picious time would afford me an op-
portunity Of stripping the impostor
and Of exposing him, the base coun.
tcrieit that be is, TO the contempt Of
all just and iair-minded people. My
iorbearance, however, is construed by
him as a license TO additional and
more slanderous detraction, and | am
constrained TO notice his New Haven
speech, as it appeared in the Register
Of October 2l, 1865. In that speech
he is reported as saying that "EOrrcSt
had nailed negroes 10 fences, set IRE 10
the fences, and burned the negroes 10
DEATH
The charge is but the natural of
spring of kilpatrick's common aud
merited fame as an unprincipled liar.
It is enough for me to say, in which !
feel | will be sustained by every chiv-
alric officer aud soldier of the Federal
army, that what he has said of me in
the speech referred TO, is the cilmina-
ton of slanderous ialschood, rendered
more odious that il is deliberately
forged Cor effect upon the unthlnking
and too confding portion of the people
of the North, whose votes he intends
to steal by such criminal and disrep.
utable inventions All such reports,
whether cmanating from this creature,
Fitzpatrick. or from any one else,
which tend in any way TO create the
impression that / conducted my hum
ble part in the war upon any other
than the strictest principle of civilized
warfare, are utterly untrue, and are
the corrupt and fcouloat fictions Of
designing and rascally slanderers.
am not prone to obtrudc matters of
this kind upon public notice, and
would have been glad to have met
with Fitzpatrick and settled this mat
ter in a less public and more emphatic
manner; and if IL should happen that
this note should meet his eye, and he
should make il the provocation of any
additional display Of words, any one
who may hear him is at liberty to as
sure him that | am ready to meet him
in any way that he may choose, and,
while | am averse 10 personal conflict,
| should much prefe1to crafty any
wish he may cherish in that way to
being the further subject of his un-
manly defamation and unsoldiorlike
misrepresentation.
l think the public will justify me in
denouncing, as now do, General
Judson Fitzpatrick as a blackguard, a
liar, scoundrel, and a poliroon,. If
he is the heroic figure he would have
The Northern people believe him, my
friend, General Basil w Duke, at
Kontucky, is authorized to
receive on my behalf any communica-
ton he may choose to make.
Respectfully,
N. b. FORREST.