The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-03-20
wIEELY CONSTITUTION ATLANTA GA TUESDAY MARCH

ring to which you and lie belong Your low, dirty
game has been n a Insa.';re spoiled. Surely,
SIT, y1u and your cJSdj tutors must feel your extreme
insi Il dcance, and appreciate tie contemplate
po4iiich you occupy nave attempted to express
the ntlment Is entertain for you, and beg 10 say
IN conclusion. that any communication addressed
to ine, etc, will meet with promp attention."
THE FIGHT AGAINST THE CODE.
The trial OF Cash for murder, as has been
said, was the first Of the kind that had ever
been held ia the state, and it was a severe
shock to the old bourbon element, of which
the Cashes proiessed to be the exponents. The
anti-dueliDg law had not been passed at the
time, but public feeling was ripe for it and this
tragic duel brought about its passage.
To Captain r. W. Dawson, tie editor of the
Charleston News and Courier, is due more
than to any one man in the state the credit of
breaking up dueling in South Carolina. His
personal history is well known. Coming into
the south from England early in the war, and
coming, too, as common seaman on board the
confederate steamer, Nashville, he at once
entered the confederate army and followed the
lost cause until its banners went down at APP
pomattox. His conspicuous gallantry speedily
secured his promotion, and he served for some
time on the stall of FitZ Lee, the present gov
elnor of Virginia. Those who knew him i'll the
army knew the man to be perfectly fearless.
His courage and gallantry were never ques-
toned; he had proved them on too many bat
tle-helds and under too many trying circum-
stances.
The war ended, he settled in Charleston, and
finally became the editor of the Charleston
Daily News. In 1867 he was challenged by
Colonel Alfred Rhett, of the Charleston Mer-
curry, and greatly to the surprise of every one
declined to meet the tire-eater, announcing his
utter disapproyal of ''the CODE" and fearlessly
denounced it as q relic of barbarism. This
was the entering wedge, the first blow that
led to the death Of dueling i'll South Caro-
lima.
Some time before the famous Cash-Shannon
duel there had been several correspondence
under the code in which young Cash had a
prominent part. Captain Dawson at once re-
newed his fight against the code, which indeed
had never been abandoned, and it was the
earnest and vigorous fight waged by him in
the News-Courier that led to the
formation of the Anti-Duelng society
of Kershaw county, in this state.
After the death of Shannon he
boldly denounced the Cashes and their
methods, and demanded the indictment Of the
| parties. Such a thing had never before been
heard of in the state, and the public looked for
nothing else than to see the Cashes and their
| adherents come down and institute wholesale
slaughter. Threats of all kinds were made,
| CARELESS of threats, and finally succeeded in
securing the passage of the anti-dueling law
| by the general assembly 1t was for his fear
| less and persistent war on dueling that he was
made a cheyalier of the order OF ST. Gregory
| the Great, by Pope Leo XIII.
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! pectorant will afford prompt relief. For break
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