The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-07-15

ground these, Col. Watts informed me
were not Of Gen. Cash's party, but per
sons who had como out to witness The
spectacle. as the people all along the way
he had come knew the place and hour O.
the meeting, and Gen. Cash had with
| difficulty escaped arrest on the way
The came information was given TO m,
subsequently bY Gen. Cash. AS soon al
arrived on the ground I called Col
Watts aside and acquainted him with The
fact of your arrest and cause Of youl
absence. He seemed, as o lawyer, Il
consider the arrest illegal, and said tina,
| you could be bailed and proceed with the
purpose or our meeting without pecu
mary risk TO your securities, end, in fine
generously proposed that Gen. Cash
would re your security for that purpose
and, taking at the moment his own view
of the matter, that it could not be at.
tended with any pecuniary risk 70 Gen
Cash, / promptly accepted the romantic
aud chivalrops proposal but Col. Watts
requested time to consult Gen. Cash, and
on his return withdrew the proposition
informing me that Gen. Cash took q diff.
ferent view of it.
then assured Col. Watts that you
would respond to Gen. Cash's demand al
the earliest moment you could be re.
lieyed of the legal impedimenta. he
asked me when that would be. an.
swered at q year and o day. when your
bonds. would expire. He replied that
you might then renew the matter by
making demand on Gen. Cash that
Gen. Cash would not pursue his demand
ON you any further, but publish the cor
respondence. asked to be informed
explicitly what he meant by this, and he
told me that his purpose vas simply to
publish the correspondence which had
occurred, to which I could offer no obiec.
ton. All these Communications were
verbal, but my recollection Of them is
clear. and strong, leaving no room for
possible error or mistake.
Gen. Cash, in his placard, states that
no friend Of his caused the arrest. Far
from me be such auspicion But this
is perfectly apparent to every one That
while VIC proposed, by every means in
our power, to obviate the effect Of the
arrest, and ultimately (though with
necessary and unavoidable delay to
bring about the desired meeting, Gen.
Cash, by aplacard, unprecedented among
gentlemen, and unjustifiable by the facts
and circumstances of the case, has rem
dered 1t absolutely effective, placing it
out OF your power ever to accord to or
demand from him o meeting on the field
of honor, and depriving himself of all
redress on you other than by the fulfill
ment of his implied inconsiderate and
rather extrayagant threat--a threat
which dare assert that neither he nor
any man will ever execute. .i&t
With considerations of high esteem
and regard, am, my dear sir, your
friend and obedieut servant,
L. w. R. BLAIR.
In conclusion Capt. DePass says:
And why did Gen. Cash, when / had
been thrice arrested, without fault of
mine, refuse to wait until could be re-
lieved from liabilities which would have
seriously embarrassed my family in the
event of my death, when he himself,
under frivolous pretext, (for it ia moth
ing more,) had deferred the challenge for
nearly seven months after the alleged
oI1ence, and thereby entitled me, under q
peremptory rule of the Code, apart from
arrest. or any other contingency, to take
twice that period to respond to his de-
mand shall not condescend to i'm
pugn Gen. Cash's character as q gentle
man or man of true courage, certainly
not after having accepted his challenge,
whether it be vulnerable or not upon
those points, But / can certainly smile
most complacentIy at all his scnrrilities
until he gives satisfactory answer to
these questions, and explain conduct
which, throughout, is the most extraor-
binary that gentleman aud man of true
courage ever fell into.
THE AETI-DUELLINa ASSOCIATIONS.
The article on the Camden Aiiti.DueI-
ling Association, mentioned by Col.
Blair as published in the Garoki,ia Sun,
was prompted by the formation of "The
Camden and Kershaw County Anti
Dueliing Association, I" on June 8, with
Judge Kershaw as President. The OBJ
jects were declared to be to educate aud
organize "tke public opinion and moral
sense of the people to q true perception
of the criminali:y of the wicked and
pernicous practice =, to take measures to
procure an adjustment of personal diff.
culties which might tend to induce o
duel "and 70 use aud enforce all legal
means o. praVenting duellihg."
COL. CAsH's VIOLENT GARD.
The card of Col. Cash is as follows:
- CAsH'5 DEPOT, sS. O., June 8.
l have seen the Neics and Courier OF
this date, containing report of the PRO-
ceedings Of q body OF men In Camden,
who style themselves can Anti -DrelIing
Association" and have also observed the
editorial remarks on the same subject.
AS my name is ct.Jely associated with
these movements I desire to notice them.
but feel confident thas were I 70 enpiy
for che use of the columns of the Nsi6Ss
and Courier, l would meet with refusal
l, therefore, beg you to allow me the use
OF your pSpery hoping that other papers
in the State may copy what have to
sag. No one will doubt that the editors
of the Neics and Courier are ia full SYM
pathy with the anti.duelling movement
their past records and private charac.
tefs are such as not only to qpalify.thern
Sc .ocS- fGH sGii IIi5Tnuersnip 70 such an associa-
ton, but would iuatify their elevation 10
prominent positions in no Ennle. We
are informed that this Camden Associa-
tion il cnn, 9 Ga IIIvTi VINO will do
their whole duty, aud put an end to The
"criminar' practics of duelling.
Camden has grown pious very GLOW,
veryl As long as her men would fight
we heard not one word about the .crini-
inal practice of dneiIinf.' I, For wears
that aecticn has been regarded 40 the
Galway Of the StAte, and only short
time ago Willlanis and Csntey were per.
mitted to leave the town to fight dueIs
thera vas no howliug on those oceasions
Williams aud Cantey were willing Ia
fight and were not molestei but lust 50
aoon SIS two Of the leading uitiSens OF the
town strike their coloTs aud take TO their
heels Tin order to divert attention and to
hide their tracksl MP rlors nn arfi.dnaI.