Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-16


sCilley simply said: 'Mr. Speaker
/ have made no charges, and took hil
seat. ~
Two or three days after went Il
my boarding house at $50 o'clock fol
dinner, as customary when the Hous'
did not adjourn, My friend, DR.
Linn, Senator from Missouri, was i'll
and I.walked up to bis room. There
/ first saw Franklin Pierce, afterward
President, who was Standing by the
bedside. Senator Benton, OF Missouri,
was also IN the room. AS / entered
the room DR.. Linn said. There is the
man. He will do it. ~.
Il asked DR.. Linn what he would
have for dinner and paid no attention
to his remark. ] heard Col. Benton
say, They cannot object to rifes,' but
] had no idea what they were talking
about, so / went out and into my
room across the hall, leaving the door
ajar that / might hear the bell for
dinner.
Col. Benton was then the President
of our mess, and at that time Jefferson
Davis was my guest. In few min
utes Franklin Pierce came into my
room and said: 'Gen. Jones, will you
do this2' @
II said: do what?'
Don't you know that Cilley has
been challenged by W. j. Graves to
fghta dueI2'
What about? ..r
''About the debate in the House.
'Mr. Graves said nothing in that de-
BATE @ fs
"Well, he has sent challenge to
Cilley by Henry A. Wise, of Vir-
ginia, which was Immediately accept
ed, and Cilley has sent me to ask you
to act as his second
81 replied that / could not think
of acting as his second, as it would
connect me directly with the Demo
cratic party, and as territorial dele
gate, | could not afford to appear as q
partisan. . I.
Pierce, who was then Senator from
New Hampshire, asked me to at least
90 over to the House with him to see
Gov. Miller, of Missouri, who was Gil.
ley's second choice. / Iagreed and we
jumped into his carriage and drove to
The House. He interviewed Miller,
who declined on account of old age.
Then he persuaded me to 60 and see
Cilley. So we drovo to DR.. Duncan's
room, on F street, where Cilley was.
When we came IN Cilley said: I'm so
glad that you've come to be my Sec
,nd.' 1 replied that l could not be
lis second. Then he took me into the
lall and, reminding me of our former
finally made me agree to
lct. n'i'ai a-f E'.isH p
'Cilley, as the challenged party, had
lecided to choose rifles as the weap-
,ns. suppose ! was selected as
econd because L had been four times
second TO Gov. Dodge, of Missouri.
then sat down and dispatched notes
o F. B. Blair and John Forsyth, Sec
etary of State, asking for the loan of
heir rifles. Next / inquired from
Jilley when and where he wished to
light. He desired that the duel should
axe place Immediately and the Marl-
borough road to Baltimore was select
ID as the place. The word was to be
,iven: Gentlemen are you ready2
Tirel One, two, three, stopP
i wrote out the terms of the duel
nd then drove to the house on Penn
ylvania avenue where Wise lived. In
lis room l found Wise and W. j.
Graves, his principal, examining a box
# dueling pistols. Graves left the
oom, leaving US to arrange the de-
ails of the duel
i handed him the conditions as
lrawn by me. -
''Rifes? he said. Good Godl it's
Who ever heard of srch
thing?'
i replied thai those were our terms
nd that he could accept them or NOT,
IS he chose.
He said he did not know where to
ret rife and | left him.
when got back to the house |
tarted to tender the use of one of
hem to Graves. But I found that
Wise had already secured rifle. 1t
vas then growing dark and too late to
ight that night and the duel was post
'oned until the next morning. After
breakfast we left for, the dueling
round, our party going in an omni-
,us from Fuller's hotel (now Will
ard's), and Graves and his friends in
couple of carriages. Our party con-
listed of Jonathan Cilley, myself as
;econd. DR.. Duncan, the surgeon, and
Jol. James W. Schaumbourg. In the
racks were w. J. Graves, H. A. Wise,
lis second, John 7. Critteden, Manafel
md Calhoun, of Kentucky, and the
DR.. Fultz, U. s. N.
The duel was fought in an open
nd deserted corn-field. Wise and ]
the spot, and then locked
rms and marched off eighty steps
II yards, as we then thought. The
distance was afterwards measured and