Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1884 — Joshua R. Giddings as a Duelist. [ARTICLE]

Joshua R. Giddings as a Duelist.

Giddings had made some fiery remarks on abolition and the South on the floor of the Senate. In this he drew a Southern Senator rather roughly over the coals. The Senator became v6ry angry and sent him a challenge. He would have an apology or blood. Giddings accepted , the challenge, but he wrote that he was unacquainted with the use of the pistol or other fire-weap-ons. As challenged party he had the choice ofc the weapons. He would name rawhides, tough, long and wiry. The two combatants should have the thumbs of their left hands bound tightly together, and, with rawhides in their right, should castigate each other until

one gave in. The Southerner refused to accept the challenge and the matter dropped Had he accepted it, Giddings, who was a tall, muscular fellow, would have cut him-to pieces.— Cleveland Leader.