The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-11-18
Forrest on fitzpatrick.
MEMPHIS Oct. 2S, 1868.

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representation Of me, made by
General Judson Fitzpatrick ofNcw
Haven, Oh the goth inst, to which
you call my attention, is not the
first in which be has indulged
since his appearance on the hust,
ings in this canvass. understand
he freely employed his criminal
capacity for ribald invention in all
the speeches he has made since
his return to this country, and
that l have been the objective
point Of many Of his unprincipled
and indecent libels. The North
ern masses have been 50 prone to
misunderstanding any appearance
that | have been made in the
present campaign that have been
content, heretofore; to iorego any
notice of General Kilpairick's in-
ventions with refel ence to myself:
and to trust that some future and
more auspicious time ewould afford
me an opportunity ofstripping the
imposter and Of exposing him, the
base counterfeit he is, to the con-
tempt of all just and fair-minded
/ people. Ny forbearance, however,
is construed by him as license to
additional and more slandcrous
detraction, and I am constrained
to notice his New Haven speech,
as it appeared in the Register of
October21st, 1868. In that speech
he is reported as saying that "For-
rest had nailed negroes to fences,
set fire to the fences and burned
the negroes to death"
1 The charge is but the offspring
of Kilpatrick's common and meri-
ted fame as an, unprincipled and
easy liar. It is enough for me to-
say; in winch iecf FFff--:t607be-
lieved and sustained by every
chivalric officer and soldier of the
Federal army, that what ne has
said Of me in the speech referred to
Lis the elimination Of slanderous
falsehood, rendered the more
Qdious that it is deliberately for
ged for effect upon the unthinking
and too con6ding portion Of the
people of the North, whose votes
he intends to steal by such Grim
inal and disreputable invention.
All such reports, whether ema
mating from any one else, which
| tend in any way. to create the
impression that I conducted my
humble part in the war upon any
other than the strictest principles
of civilized warfare, are utterly
untrue, and are the corrupt and
| feculent fiction of designing aud
rascally slandcrers. -.,...
l am not prone to .intrude mat
ters ofthis kind upon the public
notice, and would have been glad
to have met Fitzpatrick and settled
this affair in a less public and
more emphatic manner; and # it
should happen that this note
should meet his eye, and he should
make it the provocation ofany ad-
ditional 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 I am averse to
personal conflicts, I should much
prefer to crafty any wish he may
cherish in that way to being the
further subject Of his unmanly
defamation and unsoldierlike mis-
representation. -... =
think the public wilIjustlfy me
in denouncing, as Inow do, Gen
eral Judson Fitzpatrick as a black
guard, a liar, scoundrel and
poltroon. If be the heroic figure
he would have his Northern people
believe him, my friend General
Basil W. Duke, at Louisville, Ken
tucky, is authorized to receive on
my. behalf any communication he
may choose to make.
Respectfully,
N. B. FORREST.