Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-22
FoRnEsr AND N
General FORESTS Reply 20 General
Hammond

The correspondence below explains it.
self. General Hammond is a stranger
to us, but his letter to General For. st
has impressed US with a high admira-
ton for his character as a brave, chival-
rOus gentleman. 1t requires more cOur-
age TO acknowledge the injury done an
opponent than to face personal danger.
The first duty of a gentleman is to do
right, and this duty General Hammond
has performed in a manly way. The
letter Of General Forrest Is equally eredi-
table TO his character as q brave and
magnanimous gentleman:
From the Kansas City Journai OF CommerceI
We are in receipt of a letter from
General n. B. Forrest, Of Memphis,
Tennessee, inelosing an extract from the
APPEAL of that city, said extract being
from a report in this paper of a speech
made by General Hammond at Turner
Hall. The letter, in view of General
HammOnd's note below, need not be
published, and the writer himself will
approve Of our Withholding it:
NOTE FROM GENERAL HAMMOND.
KAN a CITY, November &, 1872.
Journal Of Commerce:
DEAR SIR have been shown a let
er from General n. B. Forrest, Of Mem
phis, Tennessee, in which he encloses
an extract from the Journal of Com
mierce, republished in the Memphis AP-
PEAL. This extract-from a speech
made by me in Kansas City-makes me
say that che is President Of the Ala
bama and Chattanooga railroad, also
that General Grant is charged with a
bond steal in the Selma, Marion and
Memphis railroad, but that General For
rest is the guilty party, having received
three millions of these bonds.n
He d%enOunces these statements as false
and they undoubtedly are, and l did not
make them.
l did not use the language, and did
not mention General Forrest In connec-
ton with railroads.
When a report Of my speech reached
me, / was greatly dissatisfied with it, as
reported, but absence from the city and
constant occupation drove the matter
from my mind, and prevented me from
asking a correction of the paper.
The only allusion made TO General
Forrest wa in contradiction Uf the slam
ders against him in connection with the
capture Of Fort Pillow, and which I
mentioned as an example Of the reports
which have served to produce bad feel
ing between the two sections Of our
country.
have the notes of my speech made
at that time, and it is only lust to
myself to say that I did not attribute to
General Forrest any connection with
nor make any charge against
him whatever, but on the contrary used
language which brought kind express
ions from many who are opposed to me
politically. Very respectfully, etc,
J.H. HAMMOND.
A note to the editor, accompanying
the above, requests US to give our own
recollection of the speech, we being
present at the time. That recollection
with the statement of General
The report was not a YER
Datim one, and the reporter did not
make the statement clearly. General
was refuting the charges
made against the administration in re-
gard to Southern State debts, and that
hey went to enrich "caTpetbaggers.O
n doing this he stated that they had
)een mainly contracted for railroads,
md enumerated the " riOus roads and
hOwed that they were in many cases
controlled by former officers of the rebel
rmy-General Forests road being
famed among them.
The legitimate conclusion was, if these
ebts were, "frauds, - "swindles, y "steaI-
lgs" and "plunder," as charged by the
nemies Of Grant, the proceeds did not
o to his friends, or the ''carpetbag-
This was the position of General
hammond, but henowhere charged that
ley were so.
CHILLICoTHE, No, November9, 1872.
eneral y. b. Forrest: