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BY-WAYS OF STATE HISTORY
Dueling an<J Fisticuffs
Dr. J. W. Daniel in Southern Chris
tian Advocate.
Dueling was a widespread curst
after the Revolutionary war, but the
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code seems to nave urcn
almost exclusively by the higher civ
cles of society. It was more prevalent
in the South than in New Eng
land; one reason, and perhaps th*
main reason for this, was thai iru
earliest settlers of New England wen
Dissenters and naturally put the bar
of disapproval on it because it was a
practice of the English gentry whost
worldly pleasures as well as then
customs they religiously tabooed.
It has been alleged that it was
more prevalent in the South and
Southwest because of "a landed aris
tocracy which adhered to the OK:
World customs, to a warm climate
which produced an irritable physical
condition" and of course, "to the intolerant
and domineering disposition
which came to the owner of slaves."
If the author whom I have just quoted
had stopped with his first lesson he
would have been nearer right than
when he added the other two sup
posed causes, and hai he stated that
dueling was a crime particularly attributable
to a class of Englishmen
and not a crime practiced by the
English people he would have beer
much nearer the true causs of the
prevalence of dueling in the South.
It is interesting from trrs point of
view to study, the development of
Englishmen America, religiously,
morally and politically. The large
land-holders, especially in South
Carolina and Virginia, very naturally
lived like Englishmen, they remembered
their origin and the origin of
their institutions, they sympathized
with England though they had fought
her and won their independence. John
Adams, although of Puritan descent,
was the vice-president and during the
first congress advocated, with a majority
of the senate such high sounding
titles for the president as "his
highness" or "his mightiness." If
these prominent Anglo-American cit
izens had not been checked they
would have created a court circle.
America was saved from this blunder
by the Democratic house. Adams
was genuinely English in his ideals.
William M-aclay, a Scotch Irishman,
sat one morning just before the Senate
opened and listened to a coversation
between Adams and Thomas
Carroll of Carrollton. Adams persisted
in speaking to, and treating
Carroll as a baron, and expressed
himself as being proud that he presided
over a senate that had several
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iBemoers wno were oarons. .uacia.v
was disgusted. It was all very natural,
Englishmen would be Englishmen
though transplanted in America,
it was a reflection on them?they
were good, patriotic men, but Maclay
was from that strain of American."
Providentially prepared in Ulster?he
was a Republican, and the Republicans
in the house saved America from
ftping England. The women, however,
were more obdurate than the men
who espoused high sounding titles for
the president; up to 1815 they applied
"lady" and "her majesty" to
the wives of the presidents. It was
all in keeping with their racial train
ing for centuries and certainly calls
forth no criticism from my pen, but
I do see a most wonderful and farreaching
power in that blending of
strains and preparation in Ulster ae
it resulted in American Republicanism.
From a religious po;nt of view w
may trace the same ideals. English
Episcopalianism, for example ir
Charleston, was intolerant and worldly
and ultimately established itself
after the Revolution, as purely HigV
Church, and therefore, 'sectarian, ir
all of its practices and government
while English Episcopalianism of Vir
ginia was more tolerant if not mor<
pious and developed into a non-sec
tarian and a more spiritually mindec
church, "Prayer-book Methodists'
they have been called even to thi<
day. The difference between thes<
two bodies of Christians from th<
same mother church is accounted foi
in part from the fact that the colon
ists came to Virginia at a much ear
lier date than the Englishmen wh<
constituted the settlement at Char
leston. The cause, therefore, in part
between the two bodies lies back ir
the difference, at different periods ii
English history, from a religiou;
-l r mi i i
pomi oi view, ine coiony aiso a
Charleston was planned on a genu
inely royal basis and maintained th<
ideals of the gentry as opposed tc
that of the common people. Again
Virginia expanded more rapidly thar
the Carolina colony. It had pushec
out toward the mountains long be
fore the Charleston colony had ceas
ed to hug the Atlantic shore and kee]
in close touch from every angle witl
the mother country. The Virginian!
in the northern part of the state cam*
into contact with the Ulster strai:
from Pennsylvania and also with immigrants
directly from Ireland and
: Scotland, and unconsciously absorbed
. more liberal views religiously. Even
- George Washington during the encampment
at Morristown so express,
ed himself. He visited Rev. Doctoi
. Jones, the pastor of the Presbyterian
; church at that place and a>i<ed if it
was permissible for communicants of
other churches to commune with his
. church, as he desired to partake of
i the communion of the Lord's Supj'ei
> c??i the following Sunday.
; The Presbyterian minister informed
him that the communion was open
t to ali who desired to partake of it
( without regard to church affiliation.
"That is as it ought to be,*' replied
I Washington, "though I am a member
?? of the Church of England I have no
i j exclusive partialities."
'j My contention, therefore, is that
1; we may justly expect to iind English
'! ideals and customs among people who
j are of pure English descent and that
'! this fact is modified by the class of
Englishmen who dominate in social,
religious and political affairs. The
fact, therefore, that more duels were
| fought in the South was due to the
fact that a larger percentage of scions
of the English gentry settled in
the South than in Xew England.
Therefore, "More duels took place in
I South Carolina in a month than took
j place in the rest of the country in a
I year.*'
The appalling practice of dueling,
however, had its origin in 1 wrong
conception of bravery which still
prevailed in some measure and,
' -j? - -JVul + tT o nrvrpr iation of
In6r0iorfy c* iduiitv ttff w.? .?
personal honor. Brute courage wa?3
esteemed to be necessary to the
highest tvpe of manhood. It was.
therefore, the product of an erroneous
conception of what constituted
the essential attribute of a man of
honor.
Three causes, which led to these so
? o^oivj rif hnnor. were often
Idiicvt aiiMuo v ,
trivial and the men who engaged in
them were reputable citizens, not bad
men, but men who were usually highly
esteemed by their fellow men, i>ut
alas! men who stained their hands
with human blood .because they had
a radically wrong conception of what
constituted a real gentleman. They
thought it wa? a dishonor not to hold
malice in the heart and that to cultivate
the passion of revenge for what
they esteemed to be an insult, however
trifling, was a virtue, and popular
sentiment too often sustained
them in their position, for the duelist
was frequently lionized when he
ought to have been frowned out of
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society. Many a good man ien, in
the awful practice, who really in his
teart must have felt the evil of the
debasing code and was, therefore,
the victim of public sentiment. It is
said that Alexander Hamilton fought
Burr in 1804 because he knew that
if he refused public sentiment would
consider him disgraced and that,
therefore, his career as a public man
would be at an end. It is humiliating
1" + +VlQTl ftTlP
to realize mat up iu ICCO UilC*. 4 I
hundred years ago public sentiment
endorsed such barbarous ppracticcs.
However, there is one redeeming fact
connected with the practice of the
code of honor; the women who op'
nosed it were in overwhelming majority
and duelists slipped away from
their wives to the place of conflict
like truant children. It is a suggestive
fact that there is always some belittling
and humiliating thing like
that connected with every departure
from the real standard of true gentility.
It is evidence of the lack of
genuine gentility in the heart of the
victim of error. There were a numi
ber of good women, however, who ali
lowed their husbands to go forth to
what they esteemed to be the field of
honor in very much the same spirit
i they let them go out to battle in their
? r>/snntrv'e Hpfpnsp. It seeYns to have
' v* j w w ?... _
: taken the world a long time to come
to a proper appreciation of the true
? standard of honor and of what con
stitutes a real gentleman. It is a de1
batable question as to whether it has
yet arrived at such a conception of
? morality, equity and justice. How?
ever, it has made wonderful strides
>"3 .-iTirtQ -f-Via nave r>f nnv fathers.
: | ujjwaiu oinvv, niv uuju -
r The stamp of public approval, how
ever, was the most deplorable feature
- of the unmanly practice. It was a
) bid for the perpetuation of the crime.
- A crow,] of idle swaggerers frequent,
ed the inns, were loud mouthed and
1 frequently insulting at public gatheri
ings simply to get the name of duel?
!<sts. They felt that it added to their
t social standing and was a cheap way
- to secure public notice and approval
i During the year? of the development
) of our republic when aH men drank,
, and many drank to excess, the
i thoughtless remarks of drunken mer
1 often led to this breach of good mor
als. to call it bv no severer term.
*
- .Duelling, however, was not so com
3 mon in the Piedmont section of tin
i state as in lower Carolina, because
1n?~ vaocq i ri tlio 5rtllt llpvr
e jci Liic K??v, v- ~
5 part- of the state and adhered morf
a strictly to Old World customs thar
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the Providentially prepared people
who colonized the hills. The ScoLch
Irishmen, however, were not ail
saints, they drank and had their
builies who gloried in a fight and
thoroughly enjoyed a victory, hut
the rencounter was usually a fisticuff.
TTv t>rv old muster ground could tell
of many bloody conflict??broken
noses, bitten ears, gashed faces,
chewed thumbs and mashed mouths,
but there were no dead left on the
Jieiii. They were, many of them, so
called affairs of honor, and others
purely contests for the palm of physical
manhood. In fact, the people
were so drunken with their victory
over the mother country that they
just seemed naturally to crave to v ia
little personal victories over each
other.
Duels and fisticuffs continued to
be practiced in the state up to the
Civil war. They became less and less
frequent in the closing years of .he
first half of the nineteenth ceniury
and were finally tabooed l>y the people.
The weapon used 'jy the duelist
was most commonly the long barrel
dueling pistol. They were beautifully
ornamented, kept in handsome
plush cases, and tinaliy became me
heirrooms of the families whose progenitors
used them. They are the
relics, not of a barbarous people, but
of .? people who had yielded to a barbarous
custom.
i
' The Fisticuff fraternity left no
relics behind them for they u-sed no
weapons. The use of a rock, knife
or stick was considered dishonorable
and the man who resorted to artificial
aid wao forever afterwards under the
publi;- ban. They were not bad men
but usually reputable citizens, like
tVio rlmilict5 fviprnllv and ^eierhborlv
but guided by a wrong ideal of irue
manhood. Many of them were lifted
- into a higher moral atmosphere with
; the incoming tides of the Gospel cf
Christ and its handmaid secular edu,
cation. Others wore their scars
proudly when their steps were totter;
ing, and even then their shrunken
; frames would straighten and their
I eyes, dimmed with age, would brighten
at the news of a fight. The incor
i rigible passed out by way of the
grave just as the old topers and drug
fiends are passing out today.
I The clergy, the school masters and
! the fruits of their labors, consecrated
j men and women, have wrought won,
derful changes for the better among
the constituents of our old state and
among the citizens of our republic.
We should not judge the faults and
. sins of our fathers harshly. One c-s
; sential rule of criticism in reading
and studying God's own word Development.
Men must be judged by
, the standards of the day in which
they lived and not by those standards
j that have been the results of centuiries
of progress and development.
; Their faults and wrong ideals of life
may shook us, but we must remember
j that a century of development has
come between us and them. They
were great and honorable men in
i their day and would, perhaps, have
i been greater than the men today if
I
: they had been given the opportunities
which have been made possible to
us through their agency, politically
and morally.
B1ELASKI MADE A THRILLING
ESCAPE FROM CAPTORS
' Mexico Citv. June 20.?Escaping
1 / '
j from his bandit kidnappers after four
.days of captivity, A. Bruce Bielaski.
' former head of the American depart:
ment of justice's investigation bureau
has returned to Mexico City.
Covered with dust, unshaven and
showing plainly the marks of his im'
prisonment in the mountains of Morelos,
Bielaski was taken to his apartment
where his wife and a half dozen
friends greeted him.
His friends declared the former
American official had escaped from
hi.s captors at Tetecai, walking the
SO to Cuernavaca. near which
he was captured last Sunday while
motoring.
Jules Lacaud, head of the Mexico
City banking firm which is understood
to have furnished $3 0,000 for
. the ransom on the order of Mr. Bielaiki's
New York company, said he
had been authorized to state that
Bielaski eluded his captors before the
money was paid. Biehski suffered no
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from four days of roughing it in
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dit s retured to the capital last night,
i each person telling a different ver,
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( for Bielaski's safe return to severa
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; June 1-~th, 1922.
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Jum- 14th, 1922.
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S. < .. c" Friday, the 21st day of
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