Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-10-01

made an apology that was read in the
Senate. .....
In the year of 1919 General Mason,
Senator from Virginia, was siled in
duel by his relative, McCarty. also a
Virginian; but though the cause OF the
duel was political, it did not originate in
Congress. .
The next affair of honor in which
member of Congress was a party was
the celebrated affair of McDuaie, Of
South Carolina, aud Col. Cummings, of
Georgia, which came off iD The year
1929 The famous affair between Hen
ry Clay and John Randolph occurred
four years after the last, in 1926. The
next year Mr.. Vance, an ex member Of
Congress from North Carolina, was kill
ed in duel by Mr.. Carson a member
from the same State. Ten years after
wards, in 1887, Mr. DromgooIe, a mem
Der Of Congress from Virginia, was NOR
tally wounded in duel with Mr.. Dug
ger, of the same State. In 1888 the
still freshly remembered meeting took
place between Jonathan Cllley, of Maine,
and VIM. ]. Graves, of Kentuckey, both
members of Congress, in which the for
mer was killed. This tragical affair
createda a feeling in ,he public mind so
repugnant TO the duello that it was not
until the year 1871 that another affair
of honor grew out Of Congressional
quarrel, when Mr. Stanley. of North
Carolina, and Mr.. Inge, of Alabama,
met and exchanged shots without doing
each other any personal injury, and then
explained, and became friends Two
years afterwards Mr.. Inge was the sec
ond of Senator Gwin, of California, who
fought with Mr.. McCorkle. represen
tative of the same State, Though mem
bers of Congress, the duel grew out of
expressions used by one of the parties at
race course in California, where the
meeting took place.
In 1854 the affair between Mr.. Cut
ting of this city, and Mr.. Breckenridge,
the Democratic candidate for the Vice
Presidency, occurred. in which no meet
ing took place from the difficulty of de
ciaing which party had given the chal.
lenge
The next affair of the kind that oc-
CURED is the one which now engro ses
the public attention. and which, taken in
allitsasPec;s, is certainly he most remark
able and the least credi;a0le to one of
the parties of all the affairs of honor in
which members of Congress have been
engaged, of which we have any knowl-
edge.
The list of Congressional duels is bv
no means formidable one; and consid.
eriDg the virulence with which our par
tisan quarrels have been conducted. and
the strong sectional feelings which have
always existed among the members of
our National Legislature, it is exremely
meagre and favorable to the moral char
acter cf our people. During the past
eighty years there have been but a few
hostile meetings between our leadingp pol
iticians. while there has hardly been an
eminent British statesman who has not
been engaged in duel. Pitt, Can,
ming, Fox. Curran, O'Connell, Peel, Dis
raeli, Castlereagh, and many more lead,
ing statesmen of England have had their
little affairs of honor; but our eminent
public men have been singularly free
from such degrading encounters.
The duello is not likely TO be made
more popular by the conduct of Mr..
Brooks, whose latest escapade is pretty
well exposed by the statement of Mr..
Campbell.-N. Y Times.