Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-08-02

The Code
Duello
A Story Showing How aSmal
Circumstance May Turn the
Scale Of Advantage
By ARNOLD D. EWING

A few years before the war between
the states l was obliged to 60 from my
northern home to South Carolina.
was sitting one evening in cafe with
friend when a discussion arose at a
table near me between an elderly man
and one who was. at least by COMPARE
son. young. The latter had been sit
ting alone at the table when the former
entered the cafe, stood at the entrance
looking about him, then walked with a
limp to where the other was sitting
and, taking u chair, called for julep.
Neither spoke to the other, and It was
evident they were strangers.
But presently the older man address
ed remark to the younger, which led
to conversation. At that time the pro
and anti slavery parties were contend
ing, the one to make Kansas free, the
other slave state. The man who had
entered last began to inveigh against
the "border rufiians," as they were
called In the north, at the same time
charging them with committing innu-
merable crimes. was rather sur
prised at this, since he spoke with a
distinct southern accent, though at that
time the southern people were not unit
ed on the slavery question, indeed were
not united even after the war com
menced.
The younger man took issue with his
neighbor. averring that the south had
the right to carry their institutions into
the new territories as well as the north.
Whereupon the other became violent
and abusive. The advocate Of those
who were trying to make Kansas a
slave state endeavored to withdraw
from the discussion, but his opponent
would not permit him. Finally the lat
ter, waxing wrothy. declared that the
proslavery movement In Kansas was
conceived in iniquity and any man who
advocated II was scoundrel.
The others cheek burned, but he con
trolled himself. whereupon his Oppo
nent, who was evidently disposed to
drive him to the wall, said that man
who had such opinions and declined to
doFond ,hem was n coward This fore
Cd the Younger man TO resent the In
suit offered him, and, drawing a card
from his pocket, he handed 1t to his
insuI,or
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