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Before his death he added an appendix of the 1777 Irish +duelling code, but this second edition was not printed until 1858, +as a 46-page small book, still sized to fit in the case with one's +duelling pistols. This code is far less blood-thirsty than many +might suppose, but built on a closed social caste and standards of +behavior quite alien to today.</P> + +<p> +Transcriber's Note: +In the appendix the term "rencontre" is used. In British law (then +covering Ireland) this refers to an immediate fight in the heat of +offense. A duel would be undertaken in "cold blood" if not cool +temper. Killing a man in a rencontre counted as manslaughter; in a +duel, as murder.</P> + +<p>On more than one occasion, the author refers to "posting" an +offender. This refers to posting to the public a notice as to his +behavior in some central club or business spot frequented by all +men of that level of society; exactly where varied from town to +town. It was the ultimate sanction, making the challengee's +refusal to either apologize or fight a public stain upon his +character.<P> + + +THE CODE OF HONOR;<BR> +or<BR> +RULES FOR THE GOVERNMENT<BR> +of<BR> +PRINCIPALS AND SECONDS<BR> +in<BR> +DUELLING<P> +by John Lyde Wilson<P> +<BR> +TO THE PUBLIC<P> +The man who adds in any way to the sum of human happiness is +strictly in the discharge of a moral duty. When Howard visited the +victims of crime and licentiousness, to reform their habits and +ameliorate their condition, the question was never asked whether +he had been guilty of like excesses or not? The only question the +philanthropist would propound, should be, has the deed been done +in the true spirit of Christian benevolence? Those who know me, +can well attest the motive which has caused the publication of the +following sheets, to which they for a long time urged me in vain. +Those who do not know me, have no right to impute a wrong motive; +and if they do, I had rather be the object, than the authors of +condemnation. To publish a CODE OF HONOR, to govern in cases of +individual combat, might seem to imply, that the publisher was an +advocate of duelling, and wished to introduce it as the proper +mode of deciding all personal difficulties and misunderstandings. +Such implication would do me great injustice. But if the question +be directly put to me, whether there are not cases where duels are +right and proper, I would unhesitatingly answer, there are. If an +oppressed nation has a right to appeal to arms in defence of its +liberty and the happiness of its people, there can be no argument +used in support of such appeal, which will not apply with equal +force to individuals. How many cases are there, that might be +enumerated, where there is no tribunal to do justice to an +oppressed and deeply wronged individual? If he be subjected to a +tame submission to insult and disgrace, where no power can shield +him from its effects, then indeed it would seem, that the first +law of nature, self-preservation, points out the only remedy for +his wrongs. The history of all animated nature exhibits a +determined resistance to encroachments upon natural rights,--nay, +I might add, inanimate nature, for it also exhibits a continual +warfare for supremacy. Plants of the same kind, as well as trees, +do not stop their vigorous growth because they overshadow their +kind; but, on the contrary, flourish with greater vigor as the +more weak and delicate decline and die. Those of different species +are at perpetual warfare. The sweetest rose tree will sicken and +waste on the near approach of the noxious bramble, and the most +promising fields of wheat yield a miserable harvest if choked up +with tares and thistles. The elements themselves war together, and +the angels of heaven have met in fierce encounter. The principle +of self-preservation is co-extensive with creation; and when by +education we make character and moral worth a part of ourselves, +we guard these possessions with more watchful zeal than life +itself, and would go farther for their protection. When one finds +himself avoided in society, his friends shunning his approach, his +substance wasting, his wife and children in want around him, and +traces all his misfortunes and misery to the slanderous tongue of +the calumniator, who, by secret whisper or artful innuendo, has +sapped and undermined his reputation, he must be more or less than +man to submit in silence.<P> +<BR> +The indiscriminate and frequent appeal to arms, to settle trivial +disputes and misunderstandings, cannot be too severely censured +and deprecated. I am no advocate of such duelling. But in cases +where the laws of the country give no redress for injuries +received, where public opinion not only authorizes, but enjoins +resistance, it is needless and a waste of time to denounce the +practice. It will be persisted in as long as a manly independence, +and a lofty personal pride in all that dignifies and ennobles the +human character, shall continue to exist. If a man be smote on one +cheek in public, and he turns the other, which is also smitten, +and he offers no resistance, but blesses him that so despitefully +used him, I am aware that he is in the exercise of great Christian +forbearance, highly recommended and enjoined by many very good +men, but utterly repugnant to those feelings which nature and +education have implanted in the human character. If it was +possible to enact laws so severe and impossible to be evaded, as +to enforce such rule of behavior, all that is honorable in the +community would quit the country and inhabit the wilderness with +the Indians. If such a course of conduct was infused by education +into the minds of our youth, and it became praiseworthy and +honorable to a man to submit to insult and indignity, then indeed +the forbearance might be borne without disgrace. Those, therefore, +who condemn all who do not denounce duelling in every case, should +establish schools where a passive submission to force would be the +exercise of a commendable virtue. I have not the least doubt, that +if I had been educated in such a school, and lived in such a +society, I would have proved a very good member of it. But I much +doubt, if a seminary of learning was established, where this +Christian forbearance was inculcated and enforced, whether there +would be many scholars.<P> +I would not wish to be understood to say, that I do not desire to +see duelling to cease to exist entirely, in society. But my plan +for doing it away, is essentially different from the one which +teaches a passive forbearance to insult and indignity. I would +inculcate in the rising generation a spirit of lofty independence; +I would have them taught that nothing was more derogatory to the +honor of a gentleman, than to wound the feelings of any one, +however humble. That if wrong be done to another, it was more an +act of heroism and bravery to repair the injury, than to persist +in error, and enter into mortal combat with the injured party. +This would be an aggravation of that which was already odious, and +would put him without the pale of all decent society and honorable +men. I would strongly inculcate the propriety of being tender of +the feelings, as well as the failings, of those around him. I +would teach immutable integrity, and uniform urbanity of manners. +Scrupulously to guard individual honor, by a high personal self +respect, and the practice of every commendable virtue. Once let +such a system of education be universal, and we should seldom +hear, if ever, of any more duelling.<P> +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.<P> +THE AUTHOR<P> +_____________________<P> +RULES for Principals and Seconds in Duelling.<BR> +_____________________<P> +CHAPTER I.<BR> +The Person Insulted, Before Challenge Sent<P> +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.<P> +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. But although resented at the moment, you are +bound still to have satisfaction, and must therefore make the +demand.<P> +3. When you believe yourself aggrieved, be silent on the subject, +speak to no one about the matter, and see your friend, who is to +act for you, as soon as possible.<P> +4. Never send a challenge in the first instance, for that +precludes all negotiation. Let your note be in the language of a +gentleman, and let the subject matter of complaint be truly and +fairly set forth, cautiously avoiding attributing to the adverse +party any improper motive.<P> +5. When your second is in full possession of the facts, leave the +whole matter to his judgment, and avoid any consultation with him +unless he seeks it. He has the custody of your honor, and by +obeying him you cannot be compromitted.<P> +6. Let the time of demand upon your adversary after the insult, be +as short as possible, for he has the right to double that time in +replying to you, unless you give him some good reason for your +delay. Each party is entitled to reasonable time, to make the +necessary domestic arrangements, by will or otherwise, before +fighting.<P> +7. To a written communication you are entitled to a written reply, +and it is the business of your friend to require it.<P> +Second's Duty Before Challenge Sent.<P> +1. Whenever you are applied to by a friend to act as his second, +before you agree to do so, state distinctly to your principal that +you will be governed only by your own judgment,--that he will not +be consulted after you are in full possession of the facts, unless +it becomes necessary to make or accept the amende honorable, or +send a challenge. You are supposed to be cool and collected, and +your friend's feelings are more or less irritated.<P> +2. Use every effort to soothe and tranquilize your principal; do +not see things in the same aggravated light in which he views +them; extenuate the conduct of his adversary whenever you see +clearly an opportunity to do so, without doing violence to your +friend's irritated mind. Endeavor to persuade him that there must +have been some misunderstanding in the matter. Check him if he +uses opprobious epithet towards his adversary, and never permit +improper or insulting words in the note you carry.<P> +3. To the note you carry in writing to the party complained of, +you are entitled to a written answer, which will be directed to +your principal and will be delivered to you by his adversary's +friend. If this be not written in the style of a gentleman, refuse +to receive it, and assign your reason for such refusal. If there +be a question made as to the character of the note, require the +second presenting it to you, who considers it respectful, to +endorse upon it these words: "I consider the note of my friend +respectful, and would not have been the bearer of it, if I +believed otherwise."<P> +4. If the party called on, refuses to receive the note you bear, +you are entitled to demand a reason for such refusal. If he +refuses to give you any reason, and persists in such refusal, he +treats, not only your friend, but yourself, with indignity, and +you must then make yourself the actor, by sending a respectful +note, requiring a proper explanation of the course he has pursued +towards you and your friend; and if he still adheres to his +determination, you are to challenge or post him.<P> +5. If the person to whom you deliver the note of your friend, +declines meeting him on the ground of inequality, you are bound to +tender yourself in his stead, by a note directed to him from +yourself; and if he refuses to meet you, you are to post him.<P> +6. In all cases of the substitution of the second for the +principal, the seconds should interpose and adjust the matter, if +the party substituting avows he does not make the quarrel of his +principal his own. The true reason for substitution, is the +supposed insult of imputing to you the like inequality which if +charged upon your friend, and when the contrary is declared, there +should be no fight, for individuals may well differ in their +estimate of an individual's character and standing in society. In +case of substitution and a satisfactory arrangement, you are then +to inform your friend of all the facts, whose duty it will be to +post in person.<P> +7. If the party, to whom you present a note, employ a son, father +or brother, as a second, you may decline acting with either on the +ground of consanguinity.<P> +8. If a minor wishes you to take a note to an adult, decline doing +so, on the ground of his minority. But if the adult complained of, +had made a companion of the minor in society, you may bear the +note.<P> +9. When an accommodation is tendered, never require too much; and +if the party offering the amende honorable, wishes to give a +reason for his conduct in the matter, do not, unless offensive to +your friend, refuse to receive it; by so doing you may heal the +breach more effectually.<P> +10. If a stranger wishes you to bear a note for him, be well +satisfied before you do so, that he is on an equality with you; +and in presenting the note state to the party the relationship you +stand towards him, and what you know and believe about him; for +strangers are entitled to redress for wrongs, as well as others, +and the rules of honor and hospitality should protect him.<P> +CHAPTER II.<BR> +The Party Receiving a Note Before Challenge.<P> +1. When a note is presented to you by an equal, receive it, and +read it, although you may suppose it to be from one you do not +intend to meet, because its requisites may be of a character which +may readily be complied with. But if the requirements of a note +cannot be acceded to, return it, through the medium of your +friend, to the person who handed it to you, with your reason for +returning it.<P> +2. If the note received be in abusive terms, object to its +reception, and return it for that reason; but if it be respectful, +return an answer of the same character, in which respond correctly +and openly to all interrogatories fairly propounded, and hand it +to your friend, who, it is presumed, you have consulted, and who +has advised the answer; direct it to the opposite party, and let +it be delivered to his friend.<P> +3. You may refuse to receive a note, from a minor, (if you have +not made an associate of him); one that has been posted; one that +has been publicly disgraced without resenting it; one whose +occupation is unlawful; a man in his dotage and a lunatic. There +may be other cases, but the character of those enumerated will +lead to a correct decision upon those omitted.<P> +If you receive a note from a stranger, you have a right to a +reasonable time to ascertain his standing in society, unless he is +fully vouched for by his friend.<P> +4. If a party delays calling on you for a week or more, after the +supposed insult, and assigns no cause for the delay, if you +require it, you may double the time before you respond to him; for +the wrong cannot be considered aggravated; if borne patiently for +some days, and the time may have been used in preparation and +practice.<P> +Second's Duty of the Party Receiving a Note Before Challenge Sent.<P> +1. When consulted by your friend, who has received a note +requiring explanation, inform him distinctly that he must be +governed wholly by you in the progress of the dispute. If he +refuses, decline to act on that ground.<P> +2. Use your utmost efforts to allay all excitement which your +principal may labor under; search diligently into the origin of +the misunderstanding; for gentlemen seldom insult each other, +unless they labor under some misapprehension or mistake; and when +you have discovered the original ground or error, follow each +movement to the time of sending the note, and harmony will be +restored.<P> +3. When your principal refuses to do what you require of hi, +decline further acting on that ground, and inform the opposing +second of your withdrawal from the negotiation.<P> +CHAPTER III.<BR> +Duty of Challenger and His Second Before Fighting.<P> +1. After all efforts for a reconciliation are over, the party +aggrieved sends a challenge to his adversary, which is delivered +to his second.<P> +2. Upon the acceptance of the challenge, the seconds make the +necessary arrangements for the meeting, in which each party is +entitled to a perfect equality. The old notion that the party +challenged, was authorized to name the time, place, distance and +weapon, has been long since exploded; nor would a man of chivalric +honor use such a right, if he possessed it. The time must e as +soon as practicable, the place such as had ordinarily been used +where the parties are, the distance usual, and the weapons that +which is most generally used, which, in this State, is the pistol.<P> +3. If the challengee insist upon what is not usual in time, place, +distance and weapon, do not yield the point, and tender in writing +what is usual in each, and if he refuses to give satisfaction, +then your friend may post him.<P> +4. If your friend be determined to fight and not post, you have +the right to withdraw. But if you continue to act, and have the +right to tender a still more deadly distance and weapon, and he +must accept.<P> +5. The usual distance is from ten to twenty paces, as may be +agreed on; and the seconds in measuring the ground, usually step +three feet.<P> +6. After all the arrangements are made, the seconds determine the +giving of the word and position, by lot; and he who gains has the +choice of the one or the other, selects whether it be the word or +the position, but he cannot have both.<P> +CHAPTER IV.<BR> +Duty of Challengee and Second After Challenge Sent.<P> +1. The challengee has no option when negotiation has ceased, but +to accept the challenge.<P> +2. The second makes the necessary arrangements with the second of +the person challenging. The arrangements are detailed in the +preceding chapter.<P> +CHAPTER V.<BR> +Duty of Principals and Seconds on the Ground.<P> +1. The principals are to be respectful in meeting, and neither by +look or expression irritate each other. They are to be wholly +passive, being entirely under the guidance of their seconds.<P> +2. When once posted, they are not to quit their positions under +any circumstances, without leave or direction of their seconds.<P> +3. When the principals are posted, the second giving the word, +must tell them to stand firm until he repeats the giving of the +word, in the manner it will be given when the parties are at +liberty to fire.<P> +4. Each second has a loaded pistol, in order to enforce a fair +combat according to the rules agreed on; and if a principal fires +before the word or time agreed on, he is at liberty to fire at +him, and if such second's principal fall, it is his duty to do so.<P> +5. If after a fire, either party be touched, the duel is to end; +and no second is excusable who permits a wounded friend to fight; +and no second who knows his duty, will permit his friend to fight +a man already hit. I am aware there have been many instances where +a contest has continued, not only after slight, but severe wounds, +had been received. In all such cases, I think the seconds are +blamable.<P> +6. If after an exchange of shots, neither party be hit, it is the +duty of the second of the challengee, to approach the second of +the challenger and say: "Our friends have exchanged shots, are you +satisfied, or is there any cause why the contest should be +continued?" If the meeting be of no serious cause of complaint, +where the party complaining had in no way been deeply injured, or +grossly insulted, the second of the party challenging should +reply: "The point of honor being settled, there can, I conceive, +be no objection to a reconciliation, and I propose that our +principals meet on middle ground, shake hands, and be friends." If +this be acceded to by the second of the challengee, the second of +the party challenging, says: "We have agreed that the present duel +shall cease, the honor of each of you is preserved, and you will +meet on middle ground, shake hands and be reconciled."<P> +7. If the insult be of a serious character, it will be the duty of +the second of the challenger, to say, in reply to the second of +the challengee: "We have been deeply wronged, and if you are not +disposed to repair the injury, the contest must continue." And if +the challengee offers nothing by way of reparation, the fight +continues until one or the other of the principals is hit.<P> +8. If in cases where the contest is ended by the seconds, as +mentioned in the sixth rule of this chapter, the parties refuse to +meet and be reconciled, it is the duty of the seconds to withdraw +from the field, informing their principals, that the contest must +be continued under the superintendence of other friends. But if +one agrees to this arrangement of the seconds, and the other does +not, the second of the disagreeing principal only withdraws.<P> +9. If either principal on the ground refuses to fight or continue +the fight when required, it is the duty of his second to say to +the other second: "I have come upon the ground with a coward, and +do tender you my apology for an ignorance of his character; you +are at liberty to post him." The second, by such conduct, stands +excused to the opposite party.<P> +10. When the duel is ended by a party being hit, it is the duty of +the second to the party so hit, to announce the fact to the second +of the party hitting, who will forthwith tender any assistance he +can command to the disabled principal. If the party challenging, +hit the challengee, it is his duty to say he is satisfied, and +will leave the ground. If the challenger be hit, upon the +challengee being informed of it, he should ask through his second, +whether he is at liberty to leave the ground which should be +assented to.<P> +CHAPTER VI.<BR> +Who Should Be on the Ground.<P> +1. The principals, seconds, one surgeon and one assistant surgeon +to each principal; but the assistant surgeon may be dispensed +with.<P> +2. Any number of friends that the seconds agree on, may be +present, provided they do not come within the degrees of +consanguinity mentioned in the seventh rule of Chapter I.<P> +3. Persons admitted on the ground, are carefully to abstain by +word or behavior, from any act that might be the least +exceptionable; nor should they stand near the principals or +seconds, or hold conversations with them.<P> +CHAPTER VII.<BR> +Arms, and Manner of Loading and Presenting Them.<P> +1. The arms used should be smooth-bore pistols, not exceeding nine +inches in length, with flint and steel. Percussion pistols may be +mutually used if agreed on, but to object on that account is +lawful.<P> +2. Each second informs the other when he is about to load, and +invites his presence, but the seconds rarely attend on such +invitation, as gentlemen may be safely trusted in the matter.<P> +3. The second, in presenting the pistol to his friend, should +never put it in his pistol hand, but should place it in the other, +which is grasped midway the barrel, with muzzle pointing in the +contrary way to that which he is to fire, informing him that his +pistol is loaded and ready for use. Before the word is given, the +principal grasps the butt firmly in his pistol hand, and brings it +round, with the muzzle downward, to the fighting position.<P> +4. The fighting position, is with the muzzle down and the barrel +from you; for although it may be agreed that you may hold your +pistol with the muzzle up, it may be objected to, as you can fire +sooner from that position, and consequently have a decided +advantage, which ought not to be claimed, and should not be +granted.<P> +CHAPTER VIII.<BR> +The Degrees of Insult, and How Compromised<P> +1. The prevailing rule is, that words used in retort, although +more violent and disrespectful than those first used, will not +satisfy,--words being no satisfaction for words.<P> +2. When words are used, and a blow given in return, the insult is +avenged; and if redress be sought, it must be from the person +receiving the blow.<P> +3. When blows are given in the first instance and not returned, +and the person first striking, be badly beaten or otherwise, the +party first struck is to make the demand, for blows do not satisfy +a blow.<P> +4. Insults at a wine table, when the company are over-excited, +must be answered for; and if the party insulting have no +recollection of the insult, it is his duty to say so in writing, +and negative the insult. For instance, if the man say: "you are a +liar and no gentleman," he must, in addition to the plea of the +want of recollection, say: "I believe the party insulted to be a +man of the strictest veracity and a gentleman."<P> +5. Intoxication is not a full excuse for insult, but it will +greatly palliate. If it was a full excuse, it might be well +counterfeited to wound feelings, or destroy character.<P> +6. In all cases of intoxication, the seconds must use a sound +discretion under the above general rules.<P> +7. Can every insult be compromised? is a mooted and vexed +question. On this subject, no rules can be given that will be +satisfactory. The old opinion, that a blow must require blood, is +not of force. Blows may be compromised in many cases. What those +are, much depend on the seconds.<P> +APPENDIX.<P> +Since the above Code was in press, a friend has favored me with +the IRISH CODE OF HONOR, which I had never seen; and it is +published as an Appendix to it. One thing must be apparent to +every reader, viz., the marked amelioration of the rules that +govern in duelling at the present time. I am unable to say what +code exists now in Ireland, but I very much doubt whether it be of +the same character which it bore in 1777. The American Quarterly +Review for September, 1824, in a notice of Sir Jonah Barrington's +history of his own times, has published this code; and followed it +up with some remarks, which I have thought proper to insert also. +The grave reviewer has spoken of certain States in terms so unlike +a gentleman, that I would advise him to look at home, and say +whether he does not think that the manners of his own countrymen, +do not require great amendment? I am very sure, that the citizens +of the States so disrespectfully spoken of, would feel a deep +humiliation, to be compelled to exchange their urbanity of +deportment, for the uncouth incivility of the people of +Massachusetts. Look at their public journals, and you will find +them, very generally, teeming with abuse of private character, +which would not be countenanced here. The idea of New England +becoming a school for manners, is about as fanciful as +Bolinbroke's "idea of a patriot king." I like their fortiter in +re, but utterly eschew their suaviter in modo.<P> +"The practice of duelling and points of honor settled at Clonmell +summer assizes, 1777, by the gentleman delegates of Tipperary, +Galway, Mayo, Sligo and Roscommon, and prescribed for general +adoption throughout Ireland.<P> +"Rule 1.--The first offence requires the apology, although the +retort may have been more offensive than the insult.--Example: A. +tells B. he is impertinent, &C.; B. retorts, that he lies; yet A. +must make the first apology, because he gave the first offence, +and then, (after one fire,) B. may explain away the retort by +subsequent apology.<P> +"Rule 2.--But if the parties would rather fight on: then, after +two shots each, (but in no case before,) B. may explain first, and +A. apologize afterward.<P> +"Rule 3.--If a doubt exist who gave the first offence, the +decision rests with the seconds; if they won't decide or can't +agree, the matter must proceed to two shots, or a hit, if the +challenger requires it.<P> +"Rule 4.--When the lie direct is the first offence, the aggressor +must either beg pardon in express terms; exchange tow shots +previous to apology; or three shots followed up by explanation; or +fire on till a severe hit be received by one party or the other.<P> +"Rule 5.--As a blow is strictly prohibited under any circumstances +among gentlemen, no verbal apology can be received for such an +insult; the alternatives therefore are: the offender handing a can +to the injured party, to be used on his own back, at the same time +begging pardon; firing on until one or both is disabled; or +exchanging three shots, and then asking pardon without the proffer +of the cane.<P> +"If swords are used, the parties engage till one is well-blooded, +disabled or disarmed; or until, after receiving a wound, and blood +being drawn, the aggressor begs pardon.<P> +"N.B. A disarm is considered the same as a disable; the disarmer +may (strictly) break his adversary's sword; but if it be the +challenger who is disarmed, it is considered ungenerous to do so.<P> +"In case the challenged be disarmed and refuses to ask pardon or +atone, he must not be killed as formerly; but the challenger may +lay his sword on the aggressor's shoulder, than break the +aggressor's sword, and say, 'I spare your life!' The challenged +can never revive the quarrel, the challenger may.<P> +"Rule 6.--If A. give B. the lie, and B. retorts by a blow, (being +the two greatest offences,) no reconciliation can take place till +after two discharges each, or a severe hit; after which, B. may +beg A.'s pardon for the blow, and then A. may explain simply for +the lie; because a blow is never allowable, and the offence of the +lie therefore merges in it. (See preceding rule.)<P> +"N.B. Challenges for individual causes, may be reconciled on the +ground, after one shot. An explanation, or the slightest hit +should be sufficient in such cases, because no personal offence +transpired.<P> +"Rule 7.--But no apology can be received, in any case, after the +parties have actually taken their ground, without exchange of +fires.<P> +"Rule 8.--In the above case, no challenger is obliged to divulge +the cause of his challenge, (if private,) unless required by the +challenged to do so before their meeting.<P> +"Rule 0.--All imputations of cheating at play, races, &c, to be +considered equivalent to a blow; but may be reconciled after one +shot, on admitting their falsehood, and begging pardon publicly.<P> +"Rule 10.--Any insult to a lady under a gentleman's care or +protection, to be considered as, by one degree, a greater offence +than if given to the gentleman personally, and to be regulated +accordingly.<P> +"Rule 11.--Offences originating or accruing from the support of a +lady's reputation, to be considered as less unjustifiable than any +other of the same class, and as admitting of lighter apologies by +the aggressor; this to be determined by the circumstances of the +case, but always favorably to the lady.<P> +"Rule 12.--In simple unpremeditated rencontres with the small +sword or couteau-de-chasse, the rule is, first draw, first +sheathe; unless blood be drawn: then both sheathe, and proceed to +investigation.<P> +"Rule 13.--No dumb-shooting, or firing in the air, admissible in +any case. The challenger ought not to have challenged without +receiving offence; and the challenged ought, if he gave offence, +to have made an apology before he came on the ground: therefore, +children's play must be dishonorable on one side or the other, and +is accordingly prohibited.<P> +"Rule 14.--Seconds to be of equal rank in society with the +principals they attend, inasmuch as a second may choose or chance +to become a principal, and equality is indispensable.<P> +"Rule 15.--Challenges are never to be delivered at night, unless +the party to be challenged intend leaving the place of offence +before morning; for it is desirable to avoid all hot-headed +proceedings.<P> +"Rule 16.--The challenged has the right to choose his own weapon, +unless the challenger gives his honor he is no swordsman; after +which, however, he cannot decline any second species of weapon +proposed by the challenged.<P> +"Rule 17.--The challenged chooses his ground; the challenger +chooses his distance; the seconds fix the time and terms of +firing.<P> +"Rule 18.--The seconds load in presence of each other, unless they +give their mutual honors that they have charged smooth and single, +which should be held sufficient.<P> +"Rule 19.--Firing may be regulated, first by signal; secondly, by +word of command; or, thirdly, at pleasure, as may be agreeable to +the parties. In the latter case, the parties may fire at their +reasonable leisure, but second presents and rests are strictly +prohibited.<P> +"Rule 20.--In all cases a miss-fire is equivalent to a shot, and a +snap or a non-cock is to be considered as a miss-fire.<P> +"Rule 21.--Seconds are bound to attempt a reconciliation before +the meeting takes place, or after sufficient firing or hits, as +specified.<P> +"Rule 22.--Any wound sufficient to agitate the nerves and +necessarily make the hands shake, must end the business for that +day.<P> +"Rule 23.--If the cause of meeting be of such a nature that no +apology or explanation can or will be received, the challenged +takes his ground, and calls on the challenger to proceed as he +chooses: in such cases firing at pleasure is the usual practice, +but may be varied by agreement.<P> +"Rule 24.--In slight cases, the second hands his principal but one +pistol; but in gross cases, two, holding another case ready +charged in reserve.<P> +"Rule 25.--When seconds disagree, and resolve to exchange shots +themselves, it must be at the same time and at right angles with +their principals.<P> +"If with swords, side by side, at five paces interval.<P> +"N.B. All matters and doubts not herein mentioned, will be +explained and cleared up by application to the committee, who meet +alternately at Clonmell and Galway, at their quarter sessions, for +the purpose.<P> +"CROW RYAN, President."<BR> +"JAMES KEOG,<BR> +"AMBY BODKIN, Secretaries<P> +ADDITIONAL GALWAY ARTICLES<P> +"Rule 1.--No party can be allowed to bend his knee or cover his +side with his left hand; but may present at any level from the hip +to the eye.<P> +"Rule 2.--One can neither advance nor retreat, if the ground be +measured. If the ground be unmeasured, either party may advance +at pleasure, even to touch muzzle; but neither can advance on his +adversary after the fire, unless his adversary step forward on +him.<P> +"The seconds stand responsible for this last rule being strictly +observed; bad cases have accrued from neglecting it."<P> +This precise and enlightened digest was rendered necessary by the +multitude of quarrels that arouse without "sufficient dignified +provocation:" the point of honor men required a uniform +government; and the code thus formed was disseminated throughout +the island, with directions that it should b strictly observed by +all gentlemen, and kept in their pistol cases. The rules, with +some others, were commonly styled "the thirty-six commandments," +and, according to the author, have been much acted upon down to +the present day. Tipperary and Galway were the chief schools of +duelling. We remember to have heard, in travelling to the town of +the former name in a stage coach, a dispute between two Irish +companions, on the point, which was the most gentlemanly country +in all Ireland--Tipperary or Galway? and both laid great stress +upon the relative duelling merits of those counties. By the same +criterion, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia and South Carolina, would +bear away the palm of gentility among the States of the Union.-<P> +end- + +<pre> +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE CODE OF HONOR *** + +This file should be named cduel10h.htm or cduel10h.zip +Corrected EDITIONS of our eBooks get a new NUMBER, cduel11h.htm +VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, cduel10ah.htm + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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