Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-19
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petite.
Mr.. Pryor has published Q codicil to the
Pryor and Potter correspondence, consisting
of the notes which he did not send. Several
novel features of a correspondence of horoi
have been developed by this affair, nc .no
least of which is the publication by "ie ~ '-e
parties of letters breathing out 'nr
and slaughter of which the liner parry was
entirely unconscious. suppose tna' MI
Potter after his arres, and bonds to keep the
neace had b-ougis forth quantity Of terri
HE no,os ,ho, le had written to send to Pryor,
ineormino aim that at sight, without grace,
he sbouid cut his weasand with knife OF
imposing magnitude, or should blow him to
condition beyond the possibility Of surgical
relief with aPaixhan eighty-four-pound gun.
Would thishave improved his reputation as
fghting-man7 Will it sharpen the appetite
of a fire-eater, and restore tone to a somewhat
palled stomach
One of these subsequent notes is dated Vir-
giuia, April IL, protesting against Mr.. Pot
ter's terms as 'Tnhuman, atrocious and repug-
nant to all the sentiments of civilized COM
munity," and because "By reason of your
superior size and strength they deny me
every condition of equal encounter" but ac-
cepting the terms, nevertheless.
Ofthis, it is said Mr.. Pryor was unable to
find friend who would carry it. Singular,
that in all Virginia and in Washington, no
friend could be found to carry note that
promised deadly combat, thing which il
was supposed true Southerner rather pre-.
ferred to eatingl
The next of these unborn notes was dated
Washington, April ID, affecting to discover
in Col. Landers declaration that his prin
cipal would defend himself with honor
whenever assailed, "Some faint possibility
of settlement of a controversy betweer
u.s. and stating that if Mr.. Potter woul,
name some. place out of the most frequentet
thoroughfares, 81 will afford you an ap
portunity to redeem the vaunt with whicl
you parade your resources of self-defense.
Parenthetically, we will remark that MI
Potter had, as Mr.. Lander expressl,
stated, made no vaunt, nor said anything
about his resources, or intentions of self-de
fense.
Singular as it may seem, Mr.. Pryor had nj
difficulty in finding friend who would carry
a note, inviting to street encounter, armed
with all kinds of weapons, and with no pro.
vision for securing fair terms by an arranged
distance and signal to begin, although
formal meeting under the code, with Bowie
knives alone, was 80 savage that he coul,
find no friend to bear n note to accept il
Certainly, this affair of honor must be classe,
among the celebrated cases. AT this rate
the code of honor will have to be revised q
often to fit cases, as our Ohio mosaic code is
tofit our legal practice.
Mr.. Chisman, who had acted as Pryor's sec
ond since his first note to Potter, bore this and
although his stomach had two days before
revolted at a formal meeting with Bowie.
knives, he seemed to regard this proposition
which implied both knives and pistols, ant
any other deadly weapons that could be used
and an inevitably fatal result to one or boil
parties, as eminently humane and proper
and According to the sentiments of civil
lied community" "0n my way to delive
this note to Mr. Potter" Mr.. Chisman says
"to my surprise l was authoritatively in
formed that he had been arrested and pu
under bonds to keep the peace" 81
striking coincidence" as the elder Welle
would call it. Consequently Mr.. Chisma
could, of course, present no such communi
cation to him." Consequently we have tn
novelty of hostile notes, which never passed
spread before the public.