The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-02
WILL THEY FIGHT?
Forrest and Basil Duke Want Fitzpatrick
10 CuL u Heroic Eirure.


The Memphis AUatanche of the 29th ultimo
publishes. the 70 lowing letter from General
Forrest In regard 10 certain alleged 81 nders
ing the present canvass. The letter has been
the subject of brief mention by telegraph:-
MEMPHIS, Oct. 2S, lS6S.-Mr. H. X. Snackle-
ford, New Haven, Coun.-Sir:-Fhe false and
mendacious represe ntatlon of me. made by
General Judsou Ki paIrick, of New Jersey, on
the Goth inst, to which you call my attention,
1s not the first in which he mas INDUCED since
his appearance on the 'hustings in this canvass.
capacity for ribald invention in all of the
speeches he has made since his return to this
y objective W point OF many many of" Of his his
unprincipled. and indecent libels the
misunderstapd any appearance that L have
made in the present campaign that We been
General KilpatricX's Inventions with reference
to myself, and 10 trust that some future and
more auspicious time would afford me an op-
portunity OF stripping the Imposter and of ex-
posing him, the base counterfeit he is, to the
contempt of all just and far minded people
Ny forbeaTance, however, Is construed by him
license TO additional aud more sanderous
detrsction, and am constrained 10 notice mis-
New Haven spec ch, as II appeared in the Regis
Ter, of October u, 1868. In that speech he is re-
ported as saying tnat Forrest had nailed ne
grOeS to fences, set fire 10 the fences, and burned
the negroes TO DEATH"
The charge is but the natural offspring OF Kill
patrick 8 common and merlied fame AS an un-
principled and easy liar. 1t is easy enough for
me TO say, in which feel Will be believed and
sustained by every chivanic officer and soldier
me in the speech referred To is the cutminatlon
of slanderous falsehOods, rendered the IN Ire
odious that IL Is deliberately forged for effect
upon the unthinking and too coutiding portion
OF the people of the North, whose votes he in
tends TO 81 cal by such criminal and disrs puta-
BILE invention. All such reports, whether
emanating from this creature Fitzpatrick, or
from any one else which tend in any way
TO create the impression that l conducted
my humble part in the war upon any
otner than the strictest principles OF civilized
warfare, are utterly untrue, and are the corrupt
and fecuent fictions of designing aud rascally
slanderers. am not prone to obtrude matters
of this kind upon the pubic notice, aud would
have been glad TO have met Fitzpatrick and
have settled this affair in less public and
more emphatic manner; and II 1t should hap
pen that this note should meet his eye, and he
should make 1t the provocaLion of any add.
lional display of words, anv one who may hear
him Is at liberty to assure MIN that l am
ready to meet him in any way that he may
choose, and while am averse TO personal con
hict l should much prefer tn crafty any wish
he may cherish in that way TO being the further
subject of his defamation and unsoldierliKe
Misrepresentation.
/ think the public will justify me In denounc
Ing as 1 now do, General Judson Fitzpatrick
as a blackguard, liar, a scOuudrel, and pol
troon. If he is the heroic figure he would
have the Northern people believe him, my
friend, General Basil w, Duke, at Louisville,
KY, is authorized to receive, on my behalf,
any communication he may choose to m AXE.
N. b. FoRRESr.