Page:The Code of Honor, Or, Rules For the Government of Principals and Seconds In Duelling.djvu/23



After all efforts for a reconciliation are over, the party aggrieved sends a challenge to his adversary, which is delivered to his second.

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.