The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-05
Forrest ON Kilnat,icl..


Forrest to which reference was made in
the press dispatches day or two ago. 1t
ispretty severe upon Fitzpatrick. "What
viii he do with itP' NJ o. ~,
MEMPHIS, October 90, 1868.
II. X. ShacklefOrd, New Haven, Connecticut
Sir The false and mendacious repre-
sentation of me made by General Judson
Fitzpatrick, of New Haven, on the goth
instant, to which you call my attention,
is not the first in which he has INDUCED
since his appearance OH the hustings
in this canvass. understand he freely
employed his criminal capacity ribald in
vention in all of the speeches he has made
since his return 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 l have
been content, heretofore, to forego any
notice of General Kilpatrick's inventions
with reference to myself, and to trust that
some future and more suspicious time
would afford me an opportunity of strip
ping the impoStor and of exposing him
the base counterfeit he is, to the contempt
of all just and fair-minded people. My
forbearance, however, is construed by him
as a license to additional and more SLAM
derOus detraction, and Tam constrained to
notice his New Haven speech, as it appear
ed in the Register of October 81, 1868.
In that speech he is reported as saying
that "FOrrcst had nailed negroes to
fences, set fire 10 The fences, and burned
The negroes 10 DEATH"
This charge is but the natural offspring
of kilpatrick's common and merited fame
as an unprinclpled and easy liar. 1t is
enough for me to say, in which, feel /
will be believed and sustained by every
chivalric officer and soldier of the federal
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
effect upon the uuthinking and too con.
fding portion of the people of the North,
whose votes he intends to steal by such
criminal and disreputable invention. All
such reports, whether emanating from this
creature Fitzpatrick, or from any one else,
which tend in any way to create the i'm
preston that conducted my humble part
in the war upon any other than the strict
est principles of civilized warfare, are
utterly untrue, and are the corrupt and
feculent fctiOns of designing and rascally
slanderers. 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
u less public and more 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 averse to personal con-
flict should much prefer to crafty any
wish he may cherish in that way to being
the further subject of his unmanly defa-
nation and unsoldicrlike misrepreSenta-
ton. ... ......r
think the public will justify me in de-
nouncing, as | now do, General Judson
Fitzpatrick as a BLACKBOARD, a liar,
scoundrel, 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
authorized to receive on my behalf any
communication he may choose to make.
Respectfully, N. B. FORREST.