The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-11-06
FORREST.
General Forrest After the "Wickedestb
and Meanest General ia the
United States.
An Open Letter to q. K. shaekleford
Esq, Of New Haven.
General Fitzpatrick Branded as PoltrOon
to which he Submits.


q. K. ShGcklsford, Esq. Neas Haven Conn., |
Sir: The false and mendacious repre-
sentation CT me, made by General Judson |
Fitzpatrick. of New Haven, on the Goth in
slant, to which you call my attention, is
not the first IN which he has INDUCED since
his appearance on the hustings 10 this can
vass. l understand he freely employed his
criminal capacity for ribald invention in all
of the speeches be has made since his re-
turn to this country, and that have been the
objective point Of many of his unprincipled
and indecent libels. The Northern masses
have been so prone to misunderstood any
appearance that have made IN the present
campaign that / have been content, hereto
fore, to forege any notice of General Kilpat-
rick's inventions with reference to myself,
and to trust that some future and more gus
picious time would afford me an opportuni-
ty of stripping the imposter and of expos
ing him, the base counterfeit he is, to the
contempt of all just and fair-minded people.
Ny forbearance, however, is construed by
him as license to additional and more SLAM
derous detraction, and am constrained to
notice his New Haven speech, as it appear
ed IN the Register, of Oct. 81, $685. In
that speech he is reported as saying that
%F'orrest had nailed negroes to fences, set
fire to tie fences and burned the negroes to
DEATH 81. .saa st
This charge is bet the natural offspring
of KilpatFick's common and merited fame
as an unprlncipled and easy liar. It is
enough for noe to say, 10 which feel 1 viii
be believed and sustained By every chival-
ric officer and soldier of the FEEDER
al army, that what he has said Of me
in the speech referred to is the elimination
of slanderous falsehOod, rendered the more
odious that it is deliberately forged for eff
feet upon the uuthinking and too confding
portion of the people Of the North, whose
votes he intends to steal by such criminal
and disreputable invention. All such re-
ports, whether emaDating from this creature
Fitzpatrick. or from any one else, which
tend in any way to create the impression
that conducted my humble part in the
war upon any other than the strietest prin-
eiples of civilized warfare, are utterly I'M
true, and are the corrupt and feculent &c
tons of designing and rascally. slandererse
I am not prone to obtrude 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 proYOcation of any addi-
tional display of words, any one who may
hear him is at liberty to assure him that I
am ready to meet him in any way that he
may choose. aud whilst 1 am sverse to per-
soual conflict, should much prefer to graf
ify any wish be may cherish in that way
to being the further subject of his unman-
| ly defamation and unsoldier-like misrep-
! resentation'
think the public will justify me in de-
nouncing, as I now do, General Judson Kill
| patrick as a blackguard, liar, scoundrel
and poltroon. If be is the heroic figure be
would have the Northern people believe
him, my friend, General Basil w. Duke, at
Louisville, Kentucky. is authorized to re-
ceive on nay behalf any communication be
may choose to make. Respectfully,
N. B. FoRREsT.