Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1870-07-07
poUGLAS As A DUEL1sT.

aid ! NAN e pelisie- b me yesterday
s.Ton 1Iauk;ps is the greatest du~list Il
Krasosky. lIr $50 Governor S,"vss
son ssobsccs iuspestcrat Louisville
handsome man With hack mustaehe aud
large. Curing black eyes, which sci ION or
never wink. hs:-ls out like = tigers.
With silent seroci,y. Tie ;s. rcrhsrs. City
wears If see nov. but still one % sh" best
shots in Kentueky. and he h.s fixed mp
usre quarrels. and been q second on more
6ells than anv man alive. Personally
he is a gentle. truthfal. faithful fellow,
bat he Is deadly when he has made up his
mind TO eat s,nebcdy. Tom u one Of the
be.s os his class, the 6nished dnelis. OF the
South, always nice upon points Of honor.
and p.ompt to sdsise sny body 70 fight
whom he thinks has been injured.
People Who know him. send foe Tom
in case Of duel. just ~ you send for q
physician and the preacher when ynn are
sick. He v.s Wounded at Buen, Vista.
and he Vas With Henderson, Cri,tendcn.
Lopez, AMI the rest when they invaded
Cuba. During the war he Vas on Breck-
enridge staff. and the affairs Of private
blood in which he has besn engaged are
iruumerahle. For instance, he vas Ben
Johuson's second when he killed Tom
White. Dbl you ever hear OF thatT
Mo- oh! Tom Hawkins had to leave
the State for some years after that duel.
| Old man White was there when Ben shot
his son, and he went on awfu.ly. The
papers raised n bowling rev about that
duel. Tom White and Ben Johnson had
fuss over cards. both pretty full. andfa
challenge passed.. The women and fami-
lies on both sides took big interest in it,
and Bcn's mother moulded the balls with
her own hands. She was al up and alive
about it. reckon she'd shot Ben her.
self If he hadn't gone to the field. Ben
was all crippled up with rheumatism. su:'
they had to set him up and hand him his
gun. They fought with sho. guns load
ed with ball. There was old man White
haggling in the field about points of hon
or, the terms Of apology. etceteree etceteri,
when pop went tho guns, and his son
laid dead at the old mans feet, with a
hole right through his forehead. They
say it was dreadful to hear him 90 on
don't know what became of Ben John.
SOC.
oh bless your soul Tom Hawkins
scared John Pope most dead once. They
were at old General Woops table, when
Pope impugned the courage Of Genera
and Tom Hawkins just glanced a,
him and opened out. john Pope had te
back water.
Tom was Brcokenridge's second whcr
the challenge passed between John ant
Cutting. There Tom showed the sener
alship of Alexander the Great. Cutting.
second was Old President Monroe's son
OF the regular army, anl Tom turned hin
inside out. He Put him on tho defensive
thun''ered At him, and got John Brecken
ridge OF with all the honors
! Tom Hawkins is q terrible fellow.
he looks at you with bis vide open eyes
full OF feroci'y. you are half gone up al
ready. When they tried Henderson il
New Orleans and Judah Benjamin wa,
employed by. the Spanish governments I,
assist in the prosecution, Tom, whose tria
was to follow, saw what terrible tongu,
Benjamin had, and he followed him on
OF the court room, aud said:
Look here. Mr.. jew. I want to tel
You something. II when my trial come
oh, you say one word against my charac
ter LII kill you in your tracks.
Benjamin saw those big eyes ready I,
<aE
"Nr. Hawkins. I shall not want 4
have any difficulty with you. SIR
They did not convict Henderson, an,
Tom never came to trial. @r
| Il reckon you never heard of Tom Hen
de:roh's connection with the Fitch an.
Stephen A. Douglas ,ri.l, did you p
That has never been published. to m,
knowledge; but it WIS remarkable eni
sode in the preface to the rebellion. Yo,
see. it was coming On toward the politi
cal convention of 1860, and Douglas Ia,
all the strength, so that it was hard on /,
a certainty that he would be nominated
and crowd out the Buchanan party.
got sure information of the nightly eau
cusses Of Slidell, Jesse d. Bright, How
ell Cobb, Benjamin and tina. faction !,
Washing'cn-for they met at Cobb
house chiefy-and one day it came to m,
straight rs wire that thoy had determi
ned to force Douglas into fight, and tina
1t had been proposed that Siide.l shout,
insult Douglas IN the drinking saloon oil
the Senate, and il he resented it, shoot
him down. i wrote to Douglas ut once
but knowing his habits so well, of leaviu:
letters unopened for days and weeks to.
gether, sent tho letter to friend, ana
commanded him to make Douglas open il
and peruse IT,. that he might be prepared
And in this letter said: elf You ar.
p,sled to the wall, telegraph for Ton
Hawkins, of Louisville '......- ...
| Well, came on from the South SOC,
after that. aud vent up with George Puyt
% sc Douglas. There We found nobod,
to pay much attention to ux. Dougla.
seemed absorbed With something else, anc
looking out of his library, across the hall
| saw Roger 4. Pryor and Albert G
Brown, Of Mississippi. step into another
room. ! asked no questions, but cam,
away, and soon aftcrward started for Ney
York. When ! 60, TO the Relay Hous.
there vas about three minutes delay, a
the Western train had just come in, ana
saw get e0t al il and step toward tn,
Washington train-who bu. Tom Haw
kihs? Il. .-r.,- ..- -.
.Tum,' I cried, what are you dom:
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