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irORIES OF OUR SOUTHLAND Larry G&ntt't Weekly Letter The Cede Duello 1 I The Perry-Bynum Due! ; During old, ante-bellum days ir 86uth Carolina the code duello was Istablished and accepted an institu tion as a written law and was consid 4red by hot-blooded members of thf ' llave-holding yistocracy as the prop manner in which gentle ?ccml4 their diff?cea-ces a?( Asii any man who rgfusec tfc accept a chanllenge and meet ai intagomsfc ot> th$ ?eJd- of honor ha< '$s weH the state; for the bram 6f cowardice was indelibly fixed upor -Iris brew- and he was ever after a so $ia> ottleasfc, fceM in contempt- by al jnen?*nd> worinen of hi3 class. 1 Of course, no man with a spark oj %ouK? afford to accept amtl liv< pfnder suck a v?rdiet, and the resuli ^as that many little islands in th< ifevinnah rive*,;, as also certaia local itees on the banks of- that stseam ir !Sotb Georgia tacj? South Carolina were selected as - duelling grounds. The fcrroijeQiis idea. pj:evaile4. that tj? * O % v i . t A^> Kauxt tV\o Huii^ino Urt-e tetwe&t tbf frvo states, it^ islands ,wert a "iiQ-rtta^'a land" and there \v#s no ISfcal ixuarolyBesy to punish offense* committed on, said islands. Hut ip truth the courts have- several times (fotided that the. Savannah river be*li>nged to Georgia and its islands, wer? as JBijch a ga^t' of the .territory of that Rtite.as iti ihaindap.. The'du^fting. practice alspprevailed '* 1 ? ?- ?' nvfdr?"f oc llj Lxfcorgja., nvw iw me. ?.# ift: Soutfi Carolina.. Thq Georgians, coming* tlje. riv.er as tbeir own, CJjQSsfcd thf ^tfeam. and exchanged thty* shota op.Soutn Caroling soil. 'Ifeey thus esca|)Q4 jros^cutiQn in tbeir ?wn state sjid gl^ced, themselves un'<3*? 4-l>a vtiinc/iiofinri nf" ? nftftnte who *ggx i y?y ? <? ? U. T-r . looked upon the code duello with a condoning eye. I never knew or .r ' heard of a man being punished- for Idling an afta^onist in a duel. One of thS favorite duelling ground for Qg&jgians was Sand-Bar rerry, below 4?tgusta, and- tfc^so& there has- often fc&n'crimsoned*'wifeli- the life-Wood of chivalrous Georgians. While duelling was practiced-, to a .peater or tea* extent; hf all the Soutronf statenofc neaT to- the fre~ cpHccy ps %Garolma and Louisiana: $?>'.' -* Alid this (piia^tfct-eristie id- transparfettt to: anyKj^^jifco haa studied" the and nativity of the < * t^'ffcoples. J^i^iE&ana wa& first sefcth6 Plotefch and then acquired b?;8pilin, and^j$fl.several years after otrr Civil wajj^ preponderating ma-'rtvifw . K-f KAH Twvr?;i>j?t.irm rnnstitoiAd; r - ; thesfe two hot-bk>oded and impulsive nitrons and to tkis day they retain '? -v tkfcir characteristics. The lower section of South Carol iand until the triumph of- Titlmaniftm, the dominating and ruling portion o? the Palmetto stafce waft largely settled by Cavaliers from England and Huguenots cfeiven from France after Louis XIV had- Revoked the EjfHfct of Nantes. Both these claimecj the>Wuest of bla4-' Wood, they werq *' - ' 1 i 1 x fcraye to, recklessness ana naiea iyr?ray, unless' s?eh tyranny as they themselves exercised over their black stoves and the political tyraimy ^ ?tKftir WIDU^ll wnivii iirwv uuvni'avbu ouw*, state. The ancestors of the English skiers had bee? persecuted by the Pstjfcta Olive* Cromwell and the | E^each by the Roman. Catholic Rich.th# - blood o# such, ancestry !*U; fv.-..- - ' /through th*ir veius the codc d$?l!o and scission was as natural i',SkqiQ#nce a?ior water to flow down m/\\ * / the apologists lor duelling argue ind:with some- reason, too, that fewei Kv^bive-^eem k>st in such encoun in kratd? WhfVTfc ST fcdricabie settlement is passible it k Jhtole without bloodshed. Again, th< du?l puts the small and weak man 01 Equality*'with the. larger and physi <&lly stronger antagonist. The duel ? . ling pifetol' is. about ten inches' lonj And carries a large bullet. last duel fought in South Car ollna was between Gash and -Shannon tu tetter was. killed at the first fire tel. Cash was a hot-headed piante: ind Mr. Shannon a church porker an< .IMyer universally respected. Ii k$rie litigation. Shannon submitter interrogatories to >fr$. Casl iU which, her husband declared in suiting and- would listen to no explan iiios ohftllen#e<i 5$r. Shannon. $*i& that Shannon bad- decide' t4?r*?use to meet Cash, as he wa ^6nscientieusly opposed to duelling But ob? oi his sons, a young man jus of age, declared that he himsel "tFCFulA accept the cartel, and rathe bare* his son s life endangerec ^JUnnon agr-<se<t to meet Cash. This- duel provoked such an out Burst of public indignation that due! % vra? outlawed by legislativ ^a&etajfnt in South Carolina, and th ^fewiing pr carrying of a ch^Uen^ Tfcte J?a4^ not only a violation of lav but-disfranchised both the sender an ttr . i ) hearer of a cartel. I could fill volumes with narratives t of affairs of honor I have heard about. |c t , but will confine myself to a brief re-' port of the Perry-Bynum duel, and f the details of which were given me by c a son of Governor Perry. j 5 Bvnum was a North Carolinian and < f 1 a member of the eminent family of j 5 that name. j c J J il-. I ^ j "io unaersianu uir iausw mat "j brought on this duel the reader musti^ '.understand that for vears there had, . v ! s j been a growing restlessness in the j. white counties of the Piedmont belt1. | of South Carolina against the domina-: * ting political power ol the seaboard j a 1 cQuntjea $nd of which CharlestQn was j . tbe. center. Naturally the lower coun-J ';ties resisted apx- change that weaken.- * 1;l ed their poTxejj. " i " j: The champion of the rights, of the. a I up-country was. a bright anil aggres- s ^ siyoung lawyer., Beujaxnin F. P^rry j r s of Greenville >Ii\ P.e<ry afterwards 'c j. attained distinction as a statesman i ^ Jaiid writer. lie opposed secession,'n - - - - ..... i ? j !. but cast his lot with the soutn, as (yaj^ j' Alexander Hi Stephens of Georgia. |t lii recognition of his- Union, senti-j^ njer.ts, Rresident Andrew Johnson ap-1Q pointed- him provisional governor of r r his state, hut after a brief adminis-|s ! tration he. was-removed to make place a for that carmagnole, of corruption! e Jtj>a$; characterized the reconstruction^ fiW* hi f e? v-;^."U+^- 4,1 Jl V 111 JHJ>. ItfcJll/ JUVl MICT U^MVO , u qi hist secton Bee Ferry established! a weekly paper in Greenville, called 0 the Moy^taiTie^, and being, a s?ro?gi0 | and aggressive writer, began to. put inl0 . SsOta$ telling1 lieks. against the political -situation in his-sfca?e and demanding ^ a &Mr <ie*l for- the: uppe* white c.oun-!.? ti?S. I o . ... . |.o. j Naturally these editorials wexe as^n wormwood and: gall to the ruling dy- o; nasty in South Carolina and young a Perry a- veritable thorn, in their flesh. i v . is said- thai all manner of: efforts ; were made: to squelch on silence Ben ^ . Perry, but without avail. ft wa? th^n that a handsome and^~ i chi^airoviA young man narked Bynsumi from North Carolina came to. Green- r vitfe ajid established an opposition' [ paper to- thft Mountaineer, najned the Eafcriofc. The reputation ot ijyniim J haci preceded hina to Greenyille. Ete , v*as said-to be a man absolutely with- I out fe^r, wou^d fiarht at the drop of $- \ hat and drop the hat hirpself. He [ t. vas aJso a noted; duelist, had b$ei% | j engagedt in several affairs of honor, and' had nsvtr to bpin$- d: f his- antagonist at tl>?> first shot. ^ill ^ ^ ? ** ??">- ?. MAMtTA rvf r>l Afl] QSU it CvV<5i a net rc vi sc^T) and it is said that standing with pistol in. hand, lowered at his side, he couitj , raise" the weapon, take his sight at. a \ ! glance and cut a thread at ten paces ; he?sr$en thf wordp: "One?two?- ; thige^?Fire!" the, si&nal for duelists. I j There, are tyyo sides to tbis affair . jand at this day oi course it is impos- r style to say wjucft is correct, me ga(herents of Perry charged that Bynum : was brought to Greenville to force i a^auel on Perry and kill him. Friends ; of Bynum deny this but assert that he 1 |!came of his own free will to Greenj ville and the duel was the termination j of a political controversy between ri ' ? ' \ val and warm-bfoodfed young editors. i | But from the ftrst issue o$ his paper Bvnum b?eran an aazressive criticism . i of Ben Perry and his paper and te ; which articles Perry replied with abifc r, ity, hut he evidently sought to avoid t any appeal to arms. The tone of the . ( two papers each week grew warmer, I until finally Bynum penned an article ' | so bitter and personal that no alternative was left Ferry but'to challenge 51 or forever- wear the brand of a era- ^ \ ven. II B. F. Perry \yas a brave man, but ; i utterly unskilled in the use of weapons. But Perry knew that he could , not hve in South Carolina uncUr such . 3 a stigm^ as4 so he sent Ityoum.a -1 challenge and which Was promptly . \ accepted Bynum being the chal-f I, leaded party b^d the selection of we%}1 pons and be n&mtd pistols^ arid the , jj distance ten paces. In sending this - j cartel Ben Perry- and $very?f>e else j -1 felt that he bad signed his death warf rant. [ Rasseogfrs on the Southern r*il- t -jwav crossing Tugalo river, one. of the , .^two streams that form the Savannah . .' river, by looking down tfyat stream , r "will notice a small wooded island. It , J wa s on a sandy beach at the loweT j^eod of this isle that the duel was cl (fought. ? j So confident was Bynum and sec-ond and friends that it is said th$y -:did not eyen have a surgeon. Those I who witnessed; th* duel say they n*v?r d saw such nerve as both principals s manifested?Bynum being unusually ' - ' * ? J At I *' |??y? but jf^rry witn a siern ana rauier t severe expression on his face. There f.was but one round?the handsome r,and gallant young North Carolinian I,'fell with a bullet through his heart. jB. F. Perry was uptouc^e.d. The termination of this duel was a . [-.surprise to everyone most of all to e Bynum's friends. The. due] was e fought late oftt$ colc^ winter evening. e Perry and his friends left ths ?T<?und ?Jand the cor]>&e of Bynum and his j d band of friends on the island. i And now comes a strange part of his tragedy. A litter was formed >f two small pine saplings that had >een partly washed up by a recent reshet, the body placed on this and arried to the graveyard of the old >tone church, not far from Clemson ollege. With rude tools borrowed rom a farmer a shallow grave was lug and the body of the victim of the ode duello b.uried without shroud or offin. As markers at the head and oot of the grave were set the twe mall pines. They took root and grew nto stately trees that would square en or twelve inches. A few year? igo I visited this historical old church ind burial ground. I found that in :leanng off the cemetery both of these lines had been felled and when their % tfcumps decay .nothing will remain tc nark the last resting place of a brave md chivalrous North Carolinian whe acrificed his life in what the world low looks upon as a mistaken, yea riminal method, of vindicating one's tonor. Even the mound over Bylum's grave had been leveled with he earth. But his dust mingles with hat of some of the greatest states ' . ri Jl n 1! iien and warriors that soutn taroima ver produced, and at the great resurection morn the spirit of -this valiant tranger will mingle with congenial nd kindred spirits?leaders in every arly. W$r in which their country was ngaged, brave men who held the ame views about the cotfc of honor lat Bynum held. The killing of Bynum cast a pall ver the life of Governor Perry. One f his sous told me that he had but r^ce heard the duel mentioned in the Fe^ence of his father, who raised is hand to command silence,'; with. Never again let me hear a member f my family speak of that unfortuate, affair!'* Truly does the shedding f> the blood of your fellow-man leave a indejible stain. ' * ' ' - J--11 -11 l_ _ When a man starts 014.1: to ien <tn us nows it doesn't take him very lon^. SECURIT ' 'i s . . , . i ^ i Resoi "* | f The Natio . ; . 0 'vv " B. G. 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