Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1877-11-17
WIZARD OF H SADDLE
a TRUE ACCOUNT OF CiiAL-
L.ENGE OF THE LATE GENEE-
AL FORREST TO GESEE-
AL JUDSON kILPAT-
RICK IN lists.

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Gen. y. Il. Furresi's death has pro-
voked numerous comments on his
ilte aud many Incident, OF his his
Tory, during the war and since, have
been related in the press. while I'M
Just criticisms have also been publish
eli against him. Among the incidents
which the press has taken up, Is the
challenge sent to Gen. JudsOn kIlpat-
flick, OF New Jersey, who waved the
bloody SHIRT SO loftiIy during the last
presidential canvass, and who. in the
Grant-SeyElUur contest OF 1858, was
engaged III a similar sort of business.
Inc New York Times, among other
papers. has alleged that Fitzpatrick
refused t. accept FORESTS challenge
because of the latter generals Dad
character. This was untrue.
AS General Basil w. Duke. COM
monweallh's attorney of this district,
was mentioned by General Forrest
as his second, n Courler-Journal re-
porter Obtained from him yesterday
u true Account of the whole trausac-
ton. 1t appears that Fitzpatrick, in
his partisan speeches, frequently re-
ferred to General Forrest, accusing
ann OF various barbarities during
the war. General Fl. X. Sharkelford.
OF Connecticut, All eX-iedcral general,
but who was in 1868 Il member of the
democratic party, wrote to Forrest,
calling his attention to the actions OF
fitzpatrick.
Forrest then addressed the follow
ing interesting letter to Snackeltord {:
MEMPHIS, October %, lS6S.-H. X.
~ha,.k a fart En- NJ, II,., f',,.
Sir-Ihe false aud mendacious repre-
sentttlon of me, made by Gen. JUDD
sou h~iipatlick, at New Haven, on The
ZUtI Inst, to which you call my at
tcntIon, Is not the first in which he
has INDUCED slucc his Appearance on
Tue musings III this CANVASS. I'M
derstalid he freely employed his
crlullnal capacity for ribald iuveu-
ton III all OF the speeches he has
made since his return 10 this coun.
Try, and tina | have been the obirc-
I'VE polut OF many of his unpriuci-
pied and indecent ilhels. The northern
masses have been 80 prone t. mis-.
understand any appearance that |
nave made III the present camuaiuu
that | have been content, heretofore,
10 fureso any notice of Con. kiIpat-
TICKS inventions with reference to
myself, and 10 trust that soune future
anu m"re auspIciuus time would at
fora me all opportunity of stripping
the impostor ynd of exposing him,
the base counterfeit he is, t. the con-
tempt OF all just and fair-miudtd
people. My forbcarance, however, is
construed by him MS II license 10 adj
Litionai and more sluuderuus de-
traction, and | am constrained to no.
lice his Now Haven speech, az it APP
peared III the r gister of October
2lst, 1867. In that speech he is re-
ported as snyiug that "Forrest had
nailed negroes to fences. set tire to
the fences, and burned The negroes to
death"
TINS ch,rge is but the natural of
spring of kIlpAtrick's common and
iuerlied fame as all unprincipled and
easy liar. Ii is enough tor me to say,
III which ! ieel | will be believed and
sustained by every chIvaIric officer
aud soldier of the federal ARMY, that
what he has said of me in the speech
referred TO is the Cu]liniuation of
-ltuderous ~falsehoou, rendered the
more OdlOus that it is deliberately
urged for effect upon the minimizing
and too conidimg people OF the north,
whose votes he intends to steal by
such criminal and disrcputable imven-
ton. All such reports, whether
~cmanating from this creature Kill
patrick, or from any one else, which
tend III any way to create the i'm
preston that | conducted nv humble
part in the war upon any other than
The sirlctest principles of civilized
warfare, are utterly untrue, and are
the corrupt II feculent tictions of
designing and rascalIy 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 a
less public and more emphatic man
ner, aud 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 l I'm ready to
meet him in any way hat he may
choose, and, whilst 1 am averse to
personal confllct, | should much pre-.
ter to crafty any wish, he may
cherish i'll that way TO being the
! further subject of his unmau.y def