The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-11-11

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Of the 10Th ult.:
= MEMPHIS, October %; 1868.
e e: Shackleford, Esq.,. New 'Hape'',
G5Anecticat-SIR The false and menda-
-eious representation of me, made by Gen
yeraf= Judseas Fitzpatrick, Of New Haven,
on the 2osh instant, TO which you call my
'atteHtion;,is ,is not tho first in: which he has
.indulgedi Since: his appearance on: the
hretings.ins this, canvass L understand
-aa freely employed his criminal capacity
focribaid invention in all of the speeches
he has made since his return to this coun-
try, aud that / have been the objective
point ofsmany .of his .unprincipled and
indecent lihels. The Northern masses
have been so prone to misunderstaad any
appearance that I have made in the pres
ont campaign, that have been content,
heretofore, to forego any notice OF Gene
Kilpatrick, 8 inventions with reference
TO mysslf. and TO trust that some future
and more auspicious time would afford
me an opportunity of stripping the i'm
poster and Of exposing him, the base
counterfeit he:is, to the contempt OF all
lust and fair.minded people. My forbear-
,sncs. however, is construed by him as a
license to additional and more slanderous
dstraction, and ! am constrained to no.
tice his Now Haven speech, az it appear.
). cd in-th Register, Of October 81 1868.
In that speech The is reported as saying
that (" Forrest had nailed negroes to fences,
set fire to the fences and burned the negroes
TO. death :, sss
This charge is buttho natural offspring
of Kilpatrick's common and merited fame
as an nnprinciplod and easy liar. 1t ie
enough. for me to say,in which | feel l
will be believed and sustained by every
chivalric eficor and soldier of the Fede-
raj army, that what be has said of me in
the speech referred to is the elimination
of slanderous falsehood, rendered the
moresodious that it is deliberately forged
for effect upon the unthinkfng and too
conhding portion of the people. of the
NORTH, whose votes he intends to steal by
such criminal and disreputabls invention.
Ali such reports, whether emanating
from this creature Fitzpatrick, or from any
one else, which tend in any way to create
the impression that conducted my hum
blepartsin the war upon any other than
the strictest principles of civilized war
fare, arc utterly untrue, and are the corr
srupt and feculent fctions of designing
sand rascally slanderers. lam not prone
so. .obtrude matters of this kind upon the
public notice, and would have been glad
to, havo;met Fitzpatrick and settled this
sffairsiin a Hess public and moro emphatic
manner;. and if it should happen that
this note should meet his eye, and he
should make, it the provocation of any
additional display Of words, any one who
may hear him is at liberty to assure him
that / am ready to meet him in any way
that he may choose, and whilst ] am
ayerse to personal conflict, I should much
prefer to, crafty any wish he may cherish
In that way to being the further subject
sof his,u unmanly defamation and unsoldier-
like misrepresentation.
I.think the public will justify me in de-
nouncing, as I now do, General Judson
Fitzpatrick as q blackguard, altar, a scoun-
edrels and poltroon. If he is the heroic
figure he would have the Northern people
believe him. my friend, General Basil w.
Duke, at: louisville, Kentucky, is author
lied to receive. ON my behalf any commu-
nication he may, choose to mako.
Respectfully, N. B. FORREST.