Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1868-12-05
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Ma The islss aud msndaoious 7
representation Of nae, made by iien
srsl Judson kilpAtriyk, II Nsw
lla.sa, on tho 18th last, a. which
you call my alisntion, 10 not the
hr.i in shich ho has iRdalgei .intr
hi. appearances on the husiings Ia
this canvass. | understand lac ircely
employed his criminal capacity Tor
Tiblld Invention Ia all tho spcecics
he has made since his relurn Ia this
coanlry, aud that ! have been the
objective point VI many Of hls un-
princ. Piled aud indecent libels, The
NJrlLrrn masses have been 50 prone
10 misunderstood any appearance
that | have made ia the present
campaign that have been 0nteni,
heretofore, 10 forge any notice oi
iieneral Fitzpatrick . inventions with
reference 10 myself, aud 10 trust that
some future and mOro auspic0us
time would afford mo an opp0rtuni-
" oi stripping the impOsIOr and Of
exposing him, the base counterfeit
ho 10, To the contempt OF all fair
minded people, My hrhearance,
however, il construed by him NJ u
licunss TO additional and moro slSn'
dvrous detraction, and ! am con
strained a. notice his New Haven
speech, ~ il appeared ia tha Regis
Tor, oi October ~, 1868, In that
speech he is reported ~ saying that
Forrest had nailed negroes Ia ion
COS aud burned the negroes Ia
death"
This charge Is bu, the natural oh,
spring of Ki.patrick's common and
meriled fame Ms an unprinciplcd and
easy liar. IL il enough for me to say,
in which | feel / will bo believed
and sustained by every chivalric
officer aud soldier OF the Federal
army, that what he has said Of me
IN the speech referred 10 is the cul'
mination OF slandcrous ialschood,
rendered the more ndi"us that il Is
deliberately forged for effect upon
the unthinking and too confiding
portion of the people of tho North,
whose votes no intends to steal by
such criminal and disreputuble in
vention. All such reports. whether
emanating from this creature Xii
patrick, or from any one else, which
tend in any way to create the i'm
preston that | conducted my hum.
bic part in the war upon any other
than tho strictcst principles ofcivil.
lied warfare, are utterly untrue and
are the corrupt and fcculent fctions
OF designing and rascally slandcrcrs,
am not prone TO obtrudc matters
Of this kind upon the public notice,
and would have been glad TO have
met Fitzpatrick and settled this affair
in less public and more emphatic
manner; and if it should happen
that this note should meet his eye,
and he should make it the provo.
cation 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 no may choose, and whilst ]
am aversc to personal conflict l
should much prefer to CRAFTY any
wish he may cherish in that way
70 being the further subject of his
unmanIy defamation and unsoldicr'
like misrepresentation.
/ think the public will justify
me in dcnouncing, as ] now do
General Judson Fitzpatrick as n
black suurd, a liar, n scoundrel and
poltroon. If he is the heroic figure
he would have Northern people
believe him, my friend, General
Basil w. Duke, at Louisville, Ky,
is authorized to receive on my be-
half any communication he may
choose to make. Respectfully.
n. B. FORREST.