Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1887 — Wouldn't Fight a Piece of a Man. [ARTICLE]

Wouldn't Fight a Piece of a Man.

Since the war dueling has almost disappeared in Georgia. Any attempt to revive the custom is met with ridicule. The laugh was turned against the barbarous custom in 1866, when two editors quarreled and a challenge passed. A duel was confidently expected, but the challenged party refused to accept on the ground that his opponent was not a “whole man,” having lost a leg, and that for a whole man to fight against a fragmentary one would not be fair. The ludicrousness of this explanation set the whole State in a roar of laughter, and from that day dueling disappeared. Boston Journal.