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DR. CHAS D. WILLIAMS
Practicing Physician
Vidalia, Ga.
Office in Post-office Building.
Phones: Res. 84-3; Office 84-2
DR. L. H. DARBY
DENTIST
EQUIPPED WITH X-RAY OUTFIT
Postoffice Building
VIDALIA. GEORGIA
DR. ELTON S. OSBORNE
SPECIALTY:
EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT
19 Jones Street, East
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
DR. M. L. CURRIE
Office rear of postoffie building.
Furnishes his own medicine and fills
most of his prescriptions.
Phones: Resi d ence 164} office 151.
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J. E. MERCER, M. D.
Vidalia, Georgia
Office Over Union Pharmacy.
Office Hours: 9to 10 a. m., 4t06 p. tn.
Office Phone 136; Residence 189.
B. P. JACKSON
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Practice Civil and Criminal Law in
All Courts.
Office in First National Bank Bldg.
VIDALIA, GEORGIA.
D. C. PATTILLO
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Collections, Estates, Bankruptcy
and Loans.
First National Bank Building.
Phone 145.
M. J. RATTRAY,
VETERINARY SURGEON
PHONE NO. 229
VIDALIA, GEORGIA
W. M. LEWIS
ATTORNEY AT LAW
VIDALiA, GA.
Office over Bank of Vidalia.
DR. F. Y. HARRINGTON
. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office Over Postoffice.
TELEPHONE 42.
VIDALIA, - GEORGIA
W. J. DeLOACH
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office over Citizens Bank.
PHONE NO. 18.
VIDALIA, GEORGIA
DR. F. L. HUIE
DENTIST
X-RAY EQUIPMENT.
Office in Bank of Vidalia Bldg.
DR. T. E. MILLER
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Special Attention to Women and
Children.
Office Vidalia Pharmacy.
Phones: Office 190; Residence 109-2
Residence 207 Pine Street.
C. K. MURCHISON
FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND
EMBALMER
"VIDALIA, GEORGIA
Day Phone 92; Night Phone 36
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Vidalia Vault 8 Tile Co.
Manufacturer of
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Phone 131.
VIDALIA, GEORGIA
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Southland
Larry Gantt’* Weekly Letter.
THE CORK DUELLO
THE PKKRY-BYNUM DUEL
During old, ante-bellum days In
* South Carolina the code duello was as
established and accepted an institu
tion as a written law and was consid
eredby hot-blooded members of the
1 slaver-holding aristocracy as the
proper and only manner in which
gentlemen could settle disputes. And
any man who refused to accept a
challenge and meet an antagonist on
the field of honor had as well quit
the State, for the brand of coward
ice was indelibly fixed upon his brow
and he was ever after a social out
cast. held in contempt by all men i
and women of his class.
Os course, no man with a spark of
pride could afford to accept and live
under such a verdict, and the result
was that many little islands in the
Savannah river, as also certain lo
calities on the banks of that stream
in both Georgia and South Carolina,
were selected as duelling grounds.
The erroneous idea prevailed
the Savannah river, being the divid
ing line between the two states, its
islands were a “no-man’s land” and
there was no legal machinery to
punish offenses committed on that
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VIDALIA, GEORGIA
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Liberty and Jefferson Streets
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Hot and Cold Water in Every Room.
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SAVANNAH, GA.
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LOCAL AGENT
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VIDALIA, GEORGIA.
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VIDALIA, GEORGIA
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VIDALIA, GEORGIA.
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Jackson Hotel
H. B. Horton. Manager.
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island. But in truth courts have sev
eral times decided that the Savannah
river belonged tp Georgia and its
islands were as much a part of the
territory of that State as its mainland.
The duelling practice also prevail
ed in Georgia, but not to the extent
as in South Carolina. The Georgians
claiming the river as their own, cross
ed the stream and exchanged shots
on South Carolina soil. They thus
escaped prosecution in their own
state and placed themselves under
tile jurisdiction of a people who look
ed upon the code duello with a con
doning eye. I never knew or heard
of a man being punished for killing
an antagonist in a duel. One of the
favorite duelling grounds for Geor
gians was Sand-Bar Ferry, below
Augusta and the soil there has often
been crimsoned with the life-blood of
chivalrous Georgians,
i While duelling was practiced to a
I greater or less extent, in all the
Southern States, but not near to the
frequency as in South Carolina, and
Louisiana.
And this characteristic in transpa
| rent to anyone who has studied the
| early settlement and nativity of the
two peoples. Louisiania was first
settled by the French and then ac
quired by Spain, and until several
years after our Civil War a prepon
derating majority of her population
constituted these two hot-blooded and
impulsive nations and to this day re
tain their characteristics.
The lower section of South Caro
lina, and until the triumph of Till
manism. the dominating and ruling
portion of the Palmetto State was !
largely settled by Cavaliers from
England and Huguenots driven from
France after Louis XIV had revoked
the Edict of Nantes. Both these
claimed the bluest of blue blood, they |
were brave to recklessness and hated
tyranny, unless such tyranny as they
themselves exercised over their black
slaves and the political tyranny
through which they dominated their
state. The ancestors of the English
settlers had been persecuted by the
Puritan Oliver Cromwell and the
French by the Roman Catholic
Richelieu.
With the blood of such ancestry
coursing through their veins the code
duello and secession was as natural
a sequence as for water to flow down
hill.
The apologists for duelling argue,
and with some reason, too, that fewer
lives had been lost in such encoun
ters than in street brawls. Where an ;
amicable settlement is possible it Is
made without bloodshead. Again, the
duel puts the small and weak man on
an equality withthe larger and phy
sically stronger antagonist. The duel
ling pistol is about ten inches long
and carries a long bullet.
The last duel fought in South Caro
lina was between Cash and Shannon.
The latter was killed at the first fire.
Col. Cash was a hot-brained planter
and Mr. Shannon a church worker and
a lawyer universally respected. In
some litigation. Shannon submitted
certain interrogatories to Mrs. Cash
and which her husband declared in
sulting and would listen to no expla
nation and challenged Mr. Shannon.
It is said that Shannon had decided
to refuse to meet Cash, as he was con
scientiously opposed to duelling, but
one of his sons, a young man just of
age. declared that he himself would
accept the cartel, and rather than have
his son’s life endangered. Shannon
agreed to meet Cash.
This due! provoked such an out
burst of public indignation that duel
ling was outlawed by Legislative en
actment in South Carolina, and the
sending or carrying of a challenge
was made not only violation of law, ;
but disfranchised both the sender and
bearer of a cartel.
1 could fill volumes with narratives
of affairs of honor I have beard a
bout, but will confine myself to a brief
report of the Perry-Bvnum duel, and
the details of which were given we by
a son of Governor Perry.
Bynum was a North Carolnian and
a riiember of the eminent family of
that name.
To understand the cause that
brought on this duel the reader must
understand that for years there had
been a growing restlessness in the
white counties of the Piedmont belt
of South Carolina against the domi
nating political power of the seaboard
counties and of which Charleston was
the center. Naturally the lower coun
ties resisted any chance that weaken
ed their power.
The champion of the rights of the
up-country was a bright and aggres
sive young lawyer. Benjamin F. Per
ry, of Greenville. Mr. Perry after
wards attained distinction as a states
man and writer. He opposed seces
sion, but cast his lotlot with the South
as did Alexander H. Stephens of
Georgia, in recognition of his Union
sentiments, President Andrew Jack
son appointed him Provisional Gov
ernor of his state, but after a brief
administration he was removed to
make place for that carmagnole of
corruption that characterized the re
i construction era.
To assist in his fight for the rights
of his section Ben Perry established
'I a weekly paper in Greenville, called
1 ! the mountaineer, and being a strong
and aggressive writer, began to put in
1 some telling licks against the political
1 situation in his state and demanding
1 a fair deal for the upper white coun
ties.
Naturally these editorials were as
wormwood and gall to the ruling dy
nasty in South Carolina and young
1 Perry a vertiable thorn in their flesh
! jit is said that all manner of efforts
j'were made to squelch or silence Ben
Perry, but without avail.
I It was then that a handsome and
•
■ chivalrous young man named Bynum
from North Carolina came to Green
■ ville and established an opposition
: paper to the Mountaineer, named the
, Patriot. The reputation of Bynum
had preceded him to Greenville. He
was said to be a man absolutely with-j
out fear, would fight at the drop of a
I hat and drop the hat himself. He was
also a noted duelist, had been engaged
in several affairs of honor, and had
never failed to bring down his antag
onist at the first shot. He had a
piercing eye, a nerve of steel, and it;
is said that standing with pistol in
hand, lowered at his side, he could
raise the weapon, take his sight at a
glance and cut a thread ten paces
between the words: “One—two — ,
three —Fire!” the signal for duelists.
There are two sides to this affair
1 and at this day of course, it is impos
i sible to say which is correct. The ad
herents of Perry charged that Byntim
j was brought to Greenville to force
a duel on Perry and kill him. Friends j
of Bynum deny this, but assert that he
came of his own free will to Green
| ville and the duel was the termination,
of a political controversy between
rival and warm-blooded young editors.
But from the first issue of his pa
j per Bynum began an aggressive crit
! tcism of Ben Perry and his paper and
to which articles Perry replied with,
ambillty, but he evidently sought to
avoid any appeal to arms. The tone
of the two papers each week grew
warmer, until finally Bynum penned
an article so bitter and personal that
no alternative was lef Perry but to
! challenge or forever wear the brand
of a carven.
B. F. Perry was a brave man, but
utterly unskilled in the use of wea
jpons. But Perry knew that Tie could
not live in South Carolina under
such a stigma and so he sent Bynum
a challenge and which was promptly
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accepted. Bynum being the challeng- 1
ed party had the selection of wea
pons and he named pistols and the
distance ten paces. In sending this
cartel Ben Perry and everyone else
felt that he had signed his death
warrant.
Passengers on the Southern rail
road crossing Tugalo river, one of the
two streams that form the Savannah
river, by looking down that stream
will notice a small wooded island. It
; was on ashady beach at the lower
end of thfci tala that the due.
fought. *
So confident was Bynum and his
second and friends tha tit is said
they did not even have a surgeon.
Those who witnessed the duel say
they never saw such a nerve as both
principals manifested—Bynum being
unusually gay, but Perry with a stern
and rather severe expression on his
face. There was but one round—the
handsome and gallent young North
Carolinan fell with a bullet through
his heart. B. F. Perry was untouched. (
J The termination of this duel was a
surprise to everyone most of all to '
Bynum’s friends. The duel was fought
late one cold winter evening. Perry
and his friends left the grounds and
the corpse of Bynum and his band of
friends on the island,
j And now comes a strange part of!
this tragedy. A litter was formed
of two small pine saplings that had
been partly washed up by a recent i
freshet the body placed on this and j
; carried to the graveyard of the old
Stone Church not far front Clemson
College. With rude tools borrowed
from a farmer a shallow grave was :
dug and the body of the victim of the
code duello buried without shroud or 1
coffin. As markers at the head and
; foot of the grave were set the two
small pinesi They took root and grew *
into stately trees that would square
ten or twelve inches. A few years ago
I visited this historical old church
and burial ground. I found that in
cleaning off the cemetery both of
these pines had been felled and when
their stumps decay nothing will re
, main to last resting place
of a brave and chivalrous North Caro
, linianwho sacrificed his life in what
the world now looks upon as a mis
taken, criminal, method, of vio
i
dicating one’s honor. Even the mound
over Bynum’s grave has been leveled
with* the earth. But his duse min
-1 gles with that of the greatest states
men and worriors that South Carolina
ever produced, and at the great resur
rection morn the spirit of this valiant
stranger will mingle with congenial
and kindred spirits—leaders in every
early war in w r hich their country was
'eftgaged, brave men who the
same views about the oode of honor
that Bynum held.
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