The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-02-22
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! James Gordod B4hnetti Proprietor o
tie Eow Work Herald, fouShS d duel has
week &c Hayfs..ds sftaaes. ,1fatyla1d". Nitl
Fred. Nay. WHO had aeoEbidsd him
/ hay waa eligllslyMounded, and the Ao,,oi
OF Soesiii .i;sa atsethen was a5Ghdantly salts
Gta.' BednetssI by 'hi1 6wn c,;asea9i6n
had acted iyitoo@sIifFdis lays siatey aht
deaerycd the thsasliipguy Il would seen
then INSTRUMENTATION fs.Afay, has l5uI
lsadedSo the' wrong, taiFcady ia6hJ.n fiji.
HssipSf .uptbes NhpiS, QUESTION Of the. 60
called code Of honor. The objections. t.
IL maybe bTicay stated thus: "FSrst,lI II
is an aneeftAip ir,asse' Of Fighting wrong
The Injured nan il jdst asIl,iiksly to 81
killed or wagpaed az the ,aggrasaar.l In
fact ths chanoes are against tho innocent
man. !'E6t che profeased duelist and che
expert with deadly weAp5ns ,irc more apt
TO ts 'odensivS THAT attier PERSONS They
give snsulte, aeteft Siiesehallenge and Sc
ieet! the WEAPONS, with, which they ave
Most faafilisr ana slteh kill or MAIN those
they have wontjniy provoked. u Second,
Thu. duel, settles nothing. Teubposs A de.
fects B III seine mean dot- wicked action
a;ih' charges hin, WITH it.d Is B made leaa
guilty, because fieiisiils A or kills him
self? is thei ofSenca against morality OF
decehcy checked ior encouraged by the
duel in the acasd rsupposed 7fh Wouid A
have spokehbfi If fi6 had known that
he did it at the risk Of his life7 There
have q been dlelibta,iae the South. WIN
wefe licensed fuffiahs;' the1terror OF com.
munities and even Sthtes.lj We could
readily name haaf dozen notable cases,
familiar to all our readers. ! Psopie~ let
tlrese monsters do almost, what they
pleased fofp..eddling with them was
death. Third, The duel is no test of
courage.N Everys military manknows that
duelists, as 2 general rule, arc net as
son of this Is obvious. The duelist trusts
IN his skill, his tact and address. On the
battlSHeld. these advantages are taken
away and he is Just like other men.
Hence the things in which be trusted
being removed, his confidence and cour-
age go with them. Let man habitiual-
ly carry deadly. weapon, he will be cow
ardly when he does not have il with him.
So duelist may have the average cour.
age of mankind, but the advantages that
he has over other men on the dueling
field viii make cowardly in the battle.
field. The greatest warrior of modern
times, the Let Napoleon, understood the
dem0ralizing influence Of the duel upon
the courage of his officets, and he pun
iShed it with death. So did Frederick
the Great, and 30 docs the Emperor Will
liam. IF these great warriors had be-
Eeved thai the duel impaired higher
sense of honor and chivalry, they would
have encouraged it instead OF repressine
it, Every soldier knows that old field
bnllies, and court house bullies were, as a
general rule, cowardly on the battlefield
The philosophy of it has just been given
In fist and skull encounters, they had su.
perior strength or superior skill. Losing
those advantages in battle, they become
more easily frightened than other men
Precisely so, with the dueiiyt, wher
placed where his skill and address avai
him nothing, the loss of these advantages
puts him below the average scale in cour
age. Our, attention was frs. called t
this at Contreras, in, Mexico, where q
Captain who had killed three men il
dueis took to his heels at the first fire
s1S s greyhound could scarcely have
caugbt him. It is our deliberate opinion
that d nation OF dueiists will become q
nation of EDWARDS. Fourth, The code E:
we have seen, gives birth to o class ol
bnllies who are little better than assas.
sine, and in some. cases have beea killed
like mad-dogs to be got rid of. A few
years ago.. one Of this class was shot in a
Eicst .cptgaea!y El.nner in Richmond, Va,
but the jury acquitted the murderer after
o few moments deliberation, and the au-
dience cheered their verdict. The tree
must be Judged By It's. fruits; a. system
that begets rhfiafls and ,assassins must be
q vicious system. Fifth, Dueling is ex.
pressly forbidden BY the law Of God.
The command t,'.Thou shalt not kill,''
prohibits the taking Of the life Of another
ina duel end equally prohibits us from
exposing our own lives in that Way. No
casuistry can make that right which, God
has prdhoGncea g ohe wrong.