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Battalion Reporter
Faculty and students have many
loot-outs with the administration,
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eat Texas A&M University System
.hancellor Jack K. Williams to the
aw.
Williams spoke Tuesday night as a
art of the Faculty Lecture Series
bout the code of honor and dueling
the Old South.
The chancellor explained the ori-
ins and the code of honor that
ound duelists in the early part of
le 19th century.
He said duels could be fought for
any reasons: the honor of a lady,
olitical arguments and family
onor. The most common reason,
owever, was an insult. One duel
as fought because one man called
be other an "ugly, gawking,
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Dueling was deadly, but polite
One duel was fought because
ne man called the other an
gly, gawking, yankee-looking
Mow.’
According to the code of honor, if
man felt insulted he would send a
wrt, polite note to the man who
isulted him, explaining the of-
nse, and demanding an apology,
be challenged man would then
nd a short, polite note hack, stat-
'g lat the allegations were true,
said. After these formalities, the
uel was set.
All of the details of the duel were
andled by a “second,” usually a
Chancellor Jack Williams
good friend of the duelist, although
there were professional seconds,
Williams said.
The second would deliver the
challenge notes, make arrange
ments for the site of the duel, and
choose the type of weapon to be
used. Williams said it was a myth
that the challenged man could
choose the weapon.
The second was also armed. If one
of the duelists shot before the com
mand to fire, the second was al
lowed to shoot him, the chancellor
said.
He said few duels resulted in the
death of one of the men because the
pistols were smooth-bore flint guns,
inaccurate weapons.
The chancellor said dueling was
confined to the upper class of the
South, and although most of the
states had laws against dueling,
these laws were largely ignored be
fore the Civil War.
The chancellor said dueling
was confined to the upper class
of the South, and although most
of the states had laws against
dueling, these laws were largely
ignored before the Civil War.
Dueling was called “an honorable
altercation,” but there were oppo
nents to the practice.
Newspaper editors and ministers
were against dueling.
Editors were in the position of
being challenged to duels because of
items printed in their papers that
could be interpreted as insults,
Williams said. At least six editors
dueled before the Civil War; two
were killed and another was se
riously wounded, he said.
“There was considerable truth in
the southern cartoon that showed
the southern editor with his pen in
one hand and his gun in the other, ”
Williams said.
Ministers opposed dueling as a
sin and disavowed duelists.
Williams said public opinion
turned against dueling after the
Civil War. People felt that anyone
who fought in the war could not be
considered a coward for refusing a
duel, he said.
But during its heyday, Williams
said, it was considered a refined
form of trial by ordeal, and the gen
eral sentiment was that the innocent
man would win.
‘There was considerable truth
in the southern cartoon that
showed the southern editor with
his pen in one hand and his gun
in the other,’ the former history
professor said.
He said the custom was brought
from England and popularized by
Frenchmen in the South in the early
19th century.
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