The severest penal enactments cannot restrain the practice of
duelling, and their extreme severity in this State, the more
effectually shields the offenders. The teaching and preaching of our
eloquent Clergy, may do some service, but is wholly inadequate to
suppress it. Under these circumstances, the following rules are given
to the public, and if I can save the life of one useful member of
society, I will be compensated. I have restored to the bosoms of many,
their sons, by my timely interference, who are ignorant of the misery
I have averted from them. I believe that nine duels out of ten, if not
ninety-nine out of a hundred, originate in the want of experience in
the seconds. A book of authority, to which they can refer in matters
where they are uninformed, will therefore be a desideratum. How far
this code will be that book, the public will decide.
THE AUTHOR
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RULES for Principals and Seconds in Duelling.
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CHAPTER I.
The Person Insulted, Before Challenge Sent
1. Whenever you believe that you are insulted, if the insult be in
public and by words or behavior, never resent it there, if you have
self-command enough to avoid noticing it. If resented there, you offer
an indignity to the company, which you should not.
2. If the insult be by blows or any personal indignity, it may be
resented at the moment, for the insult to the company did not
originate with you.
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