The Placer herald., 1868-12-26
Forrest W. Kilpatrick-..T Former De-
nounces the Latter a. Blackguard,
. Liar, Q Scoundrsl, and Poltroon."

Forrest W. Fitzpatrick. Tho Former De.
nounces the Latter a. a BIackguard,
Liar, . Scoundrel, and Poltroon."
MEMPHIS, October %, lseS.
81. K. Shacklsford, New Haven Conn
Sir: The false and msndaoious representa-.
ton Of me, made by General Judson Xii
patrick, 1t New Haven, on the goth instant
10 which you call my attention, 10 not the
6rst in which 10 has INDUCED since his sp.
understand be freely employed bis criminal
capacity for ribald invention in all Of tbs
speeches he has made since bis return TO tbiI
country, and that l have been the objective
point Of maOy of his unprinopled and iuds
cent libsls.-1he Northern masses have beer
50 prone to misunders,snd any appearance
that have made in the present campaign
that have been co0tent, heretofore, 10 fore.
60 any uosics Of General XII pstrick's invsn
toos With reference to myself. and to trust
that some future and more auspicious time
would afford me an opportunity Of stripping
the impostor and Of exposing him, the bass
counterfeit that he 10, to the contempt Of all
jus. aud fair-mindsd people. My forbsar'
aucs, bowsvsr, il construed by bim as H.
censs 10 additional and more slsndsrous de
traction, and am constrained to potice bis
New Haven speech. as 1t appeared in the
Register Of October 2l, 1868. In that
speech hs is reported as saying that Forrest
bad nailed negroes to fences, sci Ere to the
f,nces and burned the negroes to death"
The charge 10 but the natural offspring OF
IL 80,
unprincplsd and easy liar 1t is enough for
mo to say, in which ] feel will be believed
and sustained by every cbivslrio officer and
soldier Of the Federal army, that what he
said Of me 10 the speech referred to is the
culmInation OF slanderous falsehoods rsnd.
cred more odious that il 10 deliberately forg.
ed for effect upon the uuthinking and too
couhdng portion Of the people of the North,
whose votes he intends to steal by such
criminal and disrspu,ahle invention. All
suoh reports, whether emanating from this
creature Fitzpatrick, or from any one eIee,
which tend 10 any way to create the imprss.
sion that conducted my humble part in the
war upon any other than the sirlckest priu-
cple Of civilized warfare. are utterly untrue,
and are the corrupt aud fecuent fcllons OF
designing and rascally elanderers. am not
prone 10 obtrude matters of this kind upon
the public notice, and would have been lad
to have met Fitzpatrick and settled this at
fair 10 a less public and more emphatic man
ner; and if it should happen that this note
should meet his eye aud be should make il
the provocation Of any additional display
Of words, any one who may hear him is al
liberty TO assure him that am ready to
meet him inNsny way that be may choose,
and while am averse to personal conflict, /
should much prefer to CRAFTY any wish be
may cherish in that way to being the further
subject Of his unmaoly defamation and un'
sodie,lke misrepresentation.
think the public will justify me in de-
nouucng, as | now do, General Judson Kill
patrick as a blackguard, liar. scoundrel,
and poI,roon. II be is the heroic figure he
would have the Northern people believe him,
nv friend, General Basil W. Duke, of Louis
vile (Ky.), is authorized to receive, on my
behalf, any communication he may choose
to make.
Respectfully. N. b. FORREST.