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    The Code of Honor Or, Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in Duelling
    The Code of Honor Or, Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in Duelling
    The Code of Honor Or, Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in Duelling
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    The Code of Honor Or, Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in Duelling

    By John Lyde Wilson

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJun 1, 2004
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      The Code of Honor Or, Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in Duelling - John Lyde Wilson

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Code of Honor, by John Lyde Wilson

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: The Code of Honor

      Author: John Lyde Wilson

      Release Date: March 25, 2009 [EBook #6085]

      Last Updated: February 7, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CODE OF HONOR ***

      Produced by Holly Ingraham, and David Widger

      THE CODE OF HONOR;

      or

      RULES FOR THE GOVERNMENT

      of

      PRINCIPALS AND SECONDS

      in

      DUELLING

      by John Lyde Wilson

      Contents

      TO THE PUBLIC

      RULES FOR PRINCIPALS AND SECONDS IN DUELLING.

      APPENDIX.

      ADDITIONAL GALWAY ARTICLES

      Summary:

      Originally this was published by the author (1784-1849), a former governor of South Carolina, as a 22-page booklet, in 1838. 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.

      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.

      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.

      TO THE PUBLIC

      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

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