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

conduct to misconstruction, and, perhaps
preiudiced Mrs. Cash's claims before the
Courts. AS you have abandoned your
charge of fraud, I now feel free to act in
this matter, and while neither claim fol
myself or acknowledge for you that there
is any social equality between us, yet foI
the time being, and to accomplish the
object have in view, I waive all objec'
ticns, and demand of you redress for the
false imputations you have made against
the character of Mrs. Cash. My friend
Mr.. ". B. Sanders, will make for me the
usual preliminaries for meeting.
E. B. G. CASH.
The response of Capt. DePass was as
follows:
CAMDEN, S. c., May "a, 1880.
Col. E. B. C. Cash:
SIR-Your note of the 22d instant was
handed to me by Mr.. w. B. Sanders, and
I take the earliest practicable opportu'
nifty of replying. 1t is couched in Ian
guage upwarranted by the Code of Hon
our among gentlemen, in that it conveys
an insult, and I could most properly
return it to you, but waive this and will
readily accord you the satisfaction you
demand. My friend, DR.. 7. B. Legare,
will arrange With your friend, Mr.. W. B.
w. L. DEPAss.
Both Capt. DePass and Mr.. Legare
were arrested, and an attempt was made
to arrest Mr.. Sanders. Col. L. w. h.
Blair was substituted by Capt; DePass
for Mr.. Legare, and arrangements were
made for a meeting in North Carolina,
but Capt. DePass was again arrested and
the fight did not take place.
CASH PUBLISHES DEPAss.
Col. Cash publishes the correspondence
! in circular with the following letter:
CAsH's DEPOT, S. c., June 5.
In pursuance of the above, my friends,
Mr.. W. B. Sanders and Col. Richard G.
Watts, have done all in their power to
bring about meeting between Capt.
DePass and myself, but in every instance
have failed to accomplish their purpose.
Different times and places have been
agreed upon for a meeting, but before
reaching the grounds selected, or after
getting on the grounds and waiting hour
upon hour, we have been notified by the
friends of Capt. DePass that "Capt. De-
Pass has been arrested, or arrested again,
and cannot fight"
was in Kershaw County, the home of
Capt. DePass, when the challenge was
sent, and his reply received, came out
of Kersbaw, passed through Sumter,
Darlington, Chesterfield, and into Auson
County, N. c., (the place appointed for
the meeting.) l travelled in an open car
riage upon the public roads, passing
through towns and villages on the route,
and am personally known to the people
who reside along the roads travelled, and
yet had no trouble in ,eluding the off,
GERS of the law. will add that no friend
or acquaintance Of mine has been instru.
mental in procuring warrants of arrest
in this case. As far; RS / am informed
they originated from whining hypocrite
of Camden, who affects to raise his hands
in holy horror at the settlement of diff
.fculty by fair and equal combat, but
tsyho does not hesitate to violate the or
Enhances of God, and to have published
5n the leading newspaper of the State a
Ease and shameless falsehood as to the
nature of this difficulty. It was my
purpose to have cowhided Capt. DePass
for the course he has pursued towards
me, andI only condescended to challenge
him at the urgent appeals of personal
friends. They were in error, and have
caused me to blush for shame uninten-
tionally) at the course I have adopted.
I am now sick and disgusted, and have
abandoned the chase, and offer my pistol
case in exchange for horsewhip.
- E. B. G. CASH.
THE REJoINDER OF DEPAsS.
This has led Capt. DePass to publish
his version of the affair, with the SUBJ
Joined letter from Col. Blair:
DIXIE's RETREAT, June 10.
Capt. W. l.. DePass, Camden, s. c.:
My DEAR SIR-Before seeing Gen.
Cash's placard against you 1 had written
q communication to the Carolina San
correcting Misrepresentation apparently
referring to you in an article on the
Camden Anti-Duelling Society,"" pub
lished in that paper. The appearance
of the placard renders it my duty, in
Justice both to yourself and me, to place
before the public more explicit state
ment Of what passed between Gen. Cash,
or his official friend, Col. Watts, aud me
with reference to you.
On the 9th or 2Sth ultimo visited
Gen. Cash to deliver to him note from
you accrediting me as your official friend,
and also one from myself, in which I
say: "Capt. DePass will meet you at any
time you may desi gDate, beyond the
limits of the State of South Carolina, to
discuss and adjust matters of disagree
ment between yourself and him, and at
all events to accord to you such satisfac-
ton as you may then demand" Not
desiring to intrude upon the privacy of
his residence, I stopped at Cash's Depot
and sent in note announcing my pres.
ence and purpose, and requesting Gen.
Cash to come out to the depot and receive
my communication. He was not at
home, but his son, Capt. Cash. in c,m-
pany with Col. Watts, came out, and,
fully aware of the nature of my visit,
pressed me so cordially to accept his hos
pitaity that I became his guest for the
afternoon and night. And it may not
be out of place for me to say here that l
was never more strongly or more favora.
bly, impressed than by the high-bred
hospitality, manly tone and gentlemauly
bearing of this gentleman and his father,
whose acquaintance had never before
formed.
Upon Gen. Cash's arrival, in the even
ing, we discussed the question of where
the next meeting should take place, 1
strongly desired that it should be on the
Georgia frontier, but both Gen. Cash and
Col. Watts objected that it would be use
less for them to attempt to meet there, as
there was but little chance of their get.
ting through without being arrested, and
urged that the meeting should be in
North Carolina, near the point where
the plank road from Cheraw to Wades-
boro' crosses the State line-a point not
more than eighteen miles distant from
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