The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1860-04-19
J The Pryor and Potter Duel.
Potter offers to Fightwith Bowie Knive

4 Potter offers to Fightwith Bowie Knives
'lHa 81 Observation-Disclosures P. M.
IT. The following is believed to be cor
Frectestatement of the Potter and Pryor
affair up to noon to-day: Immediately
| after, the occurrence in the House, Mr..
I Pryor. despatched through Mr.. Hind
man, OF Arkansas, a note to Mr.. Potter
asking him to leave the District to re-
ceive7a o written. communication Mr..
Potter replied, that as Pryor's note con
templated avoiding the anti-duelling
penalties in the District, and that as
his (Potter's) disqualification was con-
tanned in the Constitution of WiseonL
tsin, he could not leave the District. 2 8
| On this, Mr.. Chislam, a substitute Of
Mr.. Hindman, who was obliged to leave
for Arkansas, handed Mr.. Potter a per-
emptory challenge from Mr.. Pryor, da-
ting his note from Virginia. Col. Ian
der, who had been designated by Mr..
Potter las his friend, handed after a
lapse of twelve hours a note to Mr.
Chislam, accepting the challenge and
naming bowie knives as the weapons,
and to fight in the open air, with two
friends each armed with Colts pistols.
Mr. Chislam protested against this form
of weapon so absurd, barbarous and -vvul-
gar, and offers to construe the code in
The most liberal way, provided other
arms are suggested. namsH aadf 45leid
= Mr.. Potter authorized Mr.. Lander to-
decline any other terms, and Mr.. Lan>
der offers to substitute himself for Mr..
Potter, with other weapons, to both of
which propositions, without consulting
Pryor, Mr.. O. replies that the first is
vulgar and inadmissable, and while ap-
lpreciating Mr.. Lander's zeal for his
friend, they have no cause of quarrel
with him, and consequently no demand
to make of him. Mr.. Pryor is still in
Virginia, and has not yet heard Of. the
action of his second in the matter. The
latter is believed to have acted after con-
sultation with Messrs Miles, Keitt, Ham
mond and Mason. lis av $40. ao<.
The above is based on information
obtained in democratic circles. The
| following in relation to the same cor
lrespondence is the version in Republi-
can quarters: 1t is understood that
Potter replied to Mr.. Pryor's first note
that he would receive any message that
might be sent him in thesDIstrict. Mr..
Pryor asked him if he would accept a
chal' age, to which Mr.. Potter replied
he v 3uld inform him whenever a chal-
leng. reached him. Mr.. Pryor then
sent him a el allenge to which Mr.. Pot
ter replied by referring him to Col. Ian
n
ments,
These terms as proposed by Col Lander to S.
! r Chislman were that Mr.. Potter though dis
claiming allegiance to the code, would fight mr.
Pryor in any place, in doors or out, in the D is
trict OF Columbia, with bowie knives, This was
declined, on the ground that the weapons were
| barbarous and inhunan, and not usual among
gentlemen TO this Col. Lander replied that
Mr.. Potter detested the whole system of duel
Hing as barbarous and inhuman, but being called
to account for the exercise of free speech on the
| floor OF the House, he consented, not being ac-
customed to the usual weapons of the duelist to
meet him IN way that would place them on
equal terms, and to name time, place and weap-
ons named by Mr. Potter were objected too Cal
Lander without Mr.. Potter's knowledge rendered
himself to Mr.. Pryor, without restrictions, which
was also declined on the ground that he had no
| quarrel with the latter.
! The correspondence between the friends of
Mr.. Potter and Mr. Pryor did not close till this
morning. 1t cannot be published until Mr..
Chlslam, who was Mr.. Pryor's principal friend,
can be seen and his consent obtained
Mr. Potter came into the House at half past
one and was greeted by number of his friends,
with whom he retired to cloak ROOM
! gii.a19u gasdue REMARKS. s1s aaas
As preliminary to the meeting of Potter and
Pryor on Friday, the 18th inst, it should be
borne in mind that on Thursday Of last week,
while the bill for the suppression of Polygany in
Utah, was under consideration in the House of
Representatives, Mr.. Loveoy of. Illinois, with
his accustomed earnestness made speech on
the subject Of slavery. During the delivery of
this speech, he was constantly interrupted and
insulted by the negro drivers Mr.. Singleton of
Mississippi calling him ''negro thief" Mr.
Ashmore of S. Carolina, declaring him ga per-
jured villain" Mr. BarksdaIe of Mississippi re-
peatedy stigmatised him d chief" and meaner
than the lowest "nlgger thief p Mr. Bonham of
| S. Carolina, dared Lovejoy to GO South, where
he would be assassinated Martin Of Virginia
said if he would come to Virginia, they would
hang him higher than they did John Brown &c
| Prominent among those who were intent on
preventing Lovejoy from speaking, even by re-
sort to violence, was Pryor of Virginia; he
rushed in front of Lovejoy, in a menacing atti-
titude; upon this, several Republican members
the most conspicuous among whom was j ohm f.
Potter, rushed to the defence of Lovejoy Pot
ter confronted Pryor and the other mobocrats,
declaring "Lovejoy shall speak, he shall be
heard you have been heaping insult on the
north for months, now you shall hear as talk
| Thi s led to what followed 81
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