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FOK THE TAR Bo KO PUKKS.
TO THE PUBLIC.
The necessity which compels a man to
dppear before thePublic, in a matter of a
rivate.natur'e, is always to be deeply re
gretted. A man's feelings are so apt to
magnify the importance of matters which
concern himself individually, whilst a
arge portion of the public are disposed to
amuse themselves at his very anxiety and
concern, that it is often better to endure in
iilence some temporary irritation, rather
hail by writing to prolong a controversy,
which after months of labor will perhaps
De ho nearer to an end than when it first
commenced. No consideration therefore
:ouUt now induce me to appear before the
)ublic but an ajiprehension, lest silence un
fertile circumstances might be construed
Into an admission of the truth of all which
las been written by that blustering brag-
OCT
S;:irt, . F. Harriss. It seems, that al
hough "He' participated in the late Duel.
avowedly because of his personal and po
litical friendship for "Air. Dimock"; his
real object was to acquire glory for him
self, and having failed to obtain that by his
conduct on the Jicld, he has tried his luck
upon paper. And as if conscious least
his:, own 'ability, might prove inadequate to
so great a task, he lias called to his assist
ance, Dr. Charles Bell Gibson, whose no
tions of justice and propriety are such as to
allow him to jiivc testimony, onlv on the!
Ci..m M.uinU No ho r,i t?.... !
in a letter to Dr. Gibson I politely re
quested an answer to certain interrogito-
l ies, wliicli lie lias laUecl to answer al jiiauu uhl sucii a one as x was wiu
though so ready to laud the virtues of theiinS to unite with him, in signing. That
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party from which he receives "pay and
provender". How miserably does hi.
conduct contrast, in this respect with'" that
of Dr. May. So far as his knowledge ex
tends, Dr. May is ready to answer ques-
tions put to him by either party. More:
of this however, in the sequel.
A pompous publication has been issued,
from the other side and the avowed excuse
for lugging such matters before the public,
isj first, because of the existence of many &
conflicting and false reports, in circulation,
concerning: the recent duel and, secondly,
because (as Harriss alleges,) he "made a
dall upon me and informed me of the ru
mors and requested me to give a statement
in writing, ot the lacts as they occurred on
the field, and I failed to furnish any state-
ment whatever". That there should have
heen many and contacting, as we.las tatse .
reports, in circulation aDout-uie anair, we . tj hi; on did not see he pi8.
are all most ready to admit and believe.!, when it nred
For when did an atlair of the kind ever
dome oif, but what conflicting and false
reports were put in circulation about ft? j
(And when did it ever occurthat these re
ports did not purport to emanate from some
uj uiu ,w,i.w.i,J.,u,1u 7 "'1
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transaction? An indiscreet, iriend f olie
party makes his tale and circulates -it an
..indiscreet friend of the other party ,m"akes
Ills tale and circulates it; and for the' pur-
pose of gaining credit from those to
whom it is retailed, each tale is represent
ed to come from some of the parties who
were present. This is but natural and
constantly occurs in all such cases. Re-i
norts in various forms preiudicial both to
mv friend and self, reached my ears soon
after our return.
I should have felt how-!cu
ever I had embarked in a most crack-
brained expedition, if I had set myself to '
Work to find out the origin of these re- receiving tnis note, to nave statea a en De
ports and to have attempted to put them ' rately in his letter to Dr. May, that he had
all straight. But for the other reason for 'called upon me to unite in a statement of
nifttino- forth Harrises publication, to wit, i what occurred on the field, and that! I had
that I had refused to furnish any statement
whatever, of what occurred on the fieli,
there is no foundation, for it in truth; but
it is entirelj' and utterly false, as I think
the following correspondence will shew.
! On the 22nd of July I received from
karriss, who was then in Washington, N.
C, the following letter. -
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1 Wash ington, July 2 2d, 1 84 5.
Dr. William T. Bryan. -
Sir: There are many and conflicting re
norts in circulation concerning the recent
fduel betneen Mr. Clark and Mr. Qmipck,
all purporting to have emanated Irpm you.
These, reports are calculated to rt fleet inju
riously upon you, as well as upon Mr.
Dimock and myself It is therefore clear
ly due to all the parties concerned that you
should male a full statement in-writtng, of
the transactions that occurred on the field,
and of the conduct and bearing. of the par
ties while there. Respectfully, &c.
H. F. HAUR1SS.
To this letter I returned the following
note.
No. 2.
Washington, N. C. , Ju ly 2 2 d 1 8 1 5 .
Sir: I am fully aware that a number of
rerports are in circulation, with rpgard to
the recent duel between Mr. Clark and
Mr- Uimock, I expected and care veiy lit
tle for them. But if you think it best or
wish it, you can make out a statement of
(acts as they occurred on the field, and as
there can be no doubt about them l will
take pleasure in signing it with you. Or.
if you prefer it you can call at my office
and confer.- . Yours respectfully,
WM. T. BRYAN. '
Mr. H. F. Hirriss.
In compliance to the invitation contain
ed in this note, Harriss made out a state
ment and brought me; but it was so gla-
ringly unjust to my friend and myself, that
nothiner hut the most de.h.mnrl pnwar,ili(!
on my part could have induced me to sign
it. Harriss says in his publication, that I
admitted the truth of his statement, but
that I was unwilling to sign it because of
the absence of Mr. Clark. It is false that
I made any such admission, and, in this
declaration, I am sustained by the recol
lection of Dr. J. G. Bryan.
No. 3.
1 hereby certify that I informed Mr
Harriss that Dr. VV. T. Bryan refused to
s'nn the statement drawn up by him (Har
ris') because it did not contain a corrcci
account of the transaction as it occurred on
the field. JESbE G. BRYAN.
Unwilling to sign his statement, in my
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statement is as follows and was handed;
Harriss on the 23rd ot July.
No. 4. 1
Washington, N. C. July 2 3d, 1 845.
As there are
various reports in circula-;
turn touching the recent duel between Mr
viarii anu.iur. uimocK we nave agreed to . r, . . ., l
submit the facts as they occurred on the:actl0n- The truth is this, Dr. Gibson figures
field in order that the public may make up ; verT largely in Harriss's card. Being well
their opinion in theorem ises. j paid as surgeon and there being no occa-
'l'he meeting took place in the neighbor- j sion for his services in that way, he still
hood of Washington, D. C, the weapons SCems to labor under the impression, that
were pistols, the distance ten paces. The j he must do sornething for the money he
principals took their position, the pistols j , 0 , i ' ! ,
1 i I c 1 1 i u .u received. So he seems disposed to make
were loaded and presented to them by their . ,
respective seconds Before we had taken UP in letters and testimony what was
our positions and before the word fire was
given Mr. Dimock's pistol fired, whereup-!
on Dr. Bryan immediately enquired ihe
cause. Mr. Harriss, Drs. Gibson and May
conrurred in the opinion that the firing
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Mr. Harriss then attempted to reload
i he pistol but failing to succeed he rt quest-
ed and obtained the assistance oi Dr;. uib
on. The pis'ols were again presented to
the parties and the seconds took their posi-
I linnti ami Ilr Hrunn nfionrriniT tti-it l r
U1IU 1 M . VI. tl VWUV. 1 Vlll IIMIi
Dimock's pistol was not held in the posi
:tion agreed upon, requested him to con-j
form to it, with this hecomplied,.the word)
-'frie" was then given by Dr. Bryan, both
bred at nearly the same lime Without j
etiecl. - ,
Mr. Harriss then asked Mr. Clark if he """ "' " Kl "I'T,
was satisfied, Mr. Clark responded in. lhe!t,on who vas landing near, eagerly
affirmative. The parlies then lift the joined. After Mr. Clark had expressed j
ne(j
In attestation of which facts, we, Wm. T
Bryan and II. F Harriss, second of ihe
respective parties, have hereunto subscrib-
UU1
How reckless! how stupid in infamy
and baseness must HarrisShave been after
failed to furnish him with any statement
tvhatever. Now is this statement ot what
occurred on the field drawn up by me cor
rect? Has it been impeached hy a single
witness? Does not the testimony of all
the witnesses, so far as it goes, corroborate
my statement?
First, as to the firing of Dimock's pistol,
before the word "fire" was given. They
all say that was so. It is true Drs. May
and Gibson give it as their opinion, that
the discharge was accidental. But how
they can undertake to say, that it was cer
tainly accidental surprizes me. They
could not look into his heart and say what
motive was operating there. The truth is,
Harriss himself, thought and believed, that
the firing proceeded from agitation; for
1!
he did not think it proceeded from that
cause, but was "as pure an accident as ev- manner. It ought to have read thus. "H
er happened", why did he, in handing1 the either printipal shall fire before the word
pistol a second time to Dimock; "caution 'Fire" is giVTn, it shal be' the duty of the
him to be exceedingly careful or it might second of the adverse party to shoot him
go oiT again,"? , If it was accidental, We down, unles it appmr to Iht surgeons
would suppose that the certain and well that the firing was accidental". But the
founded suspicions, to which his conduct Rule as adopted, and signel both by Har
would expose him, would teach him cau- riss and msilf was as first stated, without
tion enough to guard against a second any reservation in favor of accidents: It
firing out of time. If kowever, it pro-
ceeded from agitation, it can then beenisily
seen, how some small oaution'by the way
of a whisper might be very serviceable,
narticnl.arlv when arpomninied with an in-
j - - -
ond of the adverse party. ! j
Again, if Dimock was so self-possessed, I
so free from agitation, how comes it
that
when the pistol was put in his hand a sec-!
ond time, he failed to hold it in the posi
tion required hy the rules, so much so as to
render it necessarT for me to call upon
him to hold it right? Dr. May in his let
ter to me confirms my statement in this
particular, by writing that M (Dr. Bryan)
did call on Dimock and require hjm to
hold his pistol in conformity to the rules,
and that his pistol Was not held as it ought
to be." Here then were two violations of
the rules, which were adopted for the gov
ernment of the fight, and which were!sign
ed by his second as well as by mysejf, vi
olations following rapidly one after the
other. As to Mr. Clark and myself, we
both expressly stated on the field, that we
were not looking at Dimock when his pis
tol fired. It is true that, most willing and
staift witness Dr. Charles Hell Gibson
not only stated that the discharge was ac
cidental, but he accounts, most confidently
for it, by saying it was caused by want of
familiarity with the weapon. ;
WJiat did this veracious Dr. C. B. Gib
son know about the extent of Dimock's
familiarity with the use of the pistol? He
nerhnns .never saw Dimock in his life be-
fore he became connected with this trans-
wanting in setting bones and spreading
plasters. He not only writes one letter j
j which seemed to satisfy his friend Harriss,
! Dur fearinr probably that was not stron"
le , he8enc,s a seCond one, wltich so
fs appears; to the public was ebtirely
unsolicited. - And what sort of letters arc ,
i they? He was asked hy me, to state the !
fact s as they! occurred from which the !
public miht clraw their own inferences
in(i ro
and conclusions.
My letter he does not condescend to
1,T Ti
stating facts he contents himself wi
general and indiscriminate praise
both of !
Harriss and his friend. In Gibson's last
letter he states what is positively false. He
gtat .that a reconciliation was proposed
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himself satisfied, this fello w Harriss march- I
timatton that upon a second firing before ' His objectmay be to disconcert his adver
the word, the forfeiture of his life would sary, which may prove a great advantage
most certainly be insisted on, by the sec- to the cMillcnged party. ' I know it has
ed up to him with all the stateliness of;ed fr
a blue heron took him by the hand con- lawyer, jto wit, to admit nothing, to deny
gratulated him, that the matter had term i- every tiing,and insist upon proofi They
nated without bloodshed pmd proposed that jput hiir on: a different trackfand all at
hefarid Dimock shake hands. To this JVhvj once h'" is ready to make: sad- havoc with
Clark replied "it is not worth, while". l any maji who dare assert that lie' could not
proposition was then made to Dimock out - load a pistoh Load a pistol, to be sure lie
of hearing of Mr. Clark by Dr. Gibson, I can, when he is not frightened, and he can
fKint? fVi r roinni I lot inn I imnlv
ciliation. T simply ob-1
served 1 thought it ought to be reconci- i
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led, when Dimock replied he had no ani
mosity against Mr. Clark. But to return
to the firing: before the word was given, denly so thick and tremulous when he sec
suppose it was the merest accident in the onaed my call upon Dimock k hold up the
world? Does that make it less a forfeiture ,
of Dimock's life? . Read the following
Rule under which the parties fought.
No. 5. '"r
Art. 6th. Either principal firing before
the woid -Fire" or afiec ihet'word Stop"
-hall be liable to be .-hol down by ihe sec
ond of his adversary,! who Vhall notrl a loa
ded pistol in his hand for the purpose.
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Is there any exception made! in this
Rule about accidents?
If it was not
tended that .the accidental firing should '
work a forfeiture , of one's life, the Rule t
fought to have been framed in a different
! . Ill !-
is made thus rigid in all cases ot duelling,
because or j
the impossibility of deciding
whether it;
be accidental or intentional. In
firing befoje
pose to kill
the time a party may not pur-
itl and vet be hljihlv criminal.
always been I understood that in the duet;
between Randolph and Clay, Randolph
nfed before the word. That was most
certainly a forfeiture of his life. The fpf-
feiture however was not insisted on" by
Mr. Clay, and the forfeiture perhaps nev
er would be insisted on in any case, where
there is room or charity to believe that it
migiu possioiy nave neen acciueniai. jut
the failure to insist upon it does not make
it less a forfeiture."'..;
In the second place my statement of the
affair alleges that Harrissthen attempted to
rel oad the p istol but fail i ng to succeed,
he requested and obtained the assistance -of
Dr. G i bscip. What does Dr. May say up
on this pc int? He says., in his letter to me,
dated July 28th, 1S45, "I did not attend to
the minutjia; of the reloading of Mr, Dim
ock's pifitoj". Dr. May's attention, it
seems was not directed to the persons en
gaged in reloading. What is Dr.- Gibson',
tcstimonv ; upoli this point? ; In hisi 4t.cr
to Harris:; sol far as that letter has been'pu
lished, h; says nothing about it. Iay ea
far as his letter has been 'published, for .tip
on a careful jexaminatibn of his first letter
as publis led in Harriss's card you will
perceive jit lias the appearance of air ex
tract.
it! commences without "any f'Sir jbr
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Dr." "S
j i i.Tii . not i hjj .
On the 23d of July I directed to f
Gibson and placed it in the post office at
this place a letter in which among "other
things, I
requested from him an answer to
the follo:ving
questions. "Did tiot Mr.
attempting to reload r Mr.
Harriss
Dimock
upon
pistol, fa i I to su cceed - until you
(Dr. Gibsori) aided him, and did not his
ajiitation
cause him to! lose one or more
charges
bf powder''? This question Dr.
Gibson
never has answered. My state-
ment has been given Dr. Gibson has been
'called on by me to confirm or deny it.
He knows whether it is true or not 1 be-
cause it
concerns his own conduct, yet he
contradict it. lie is silent,at
does no
least to
me. witn.tne partialities ler his
side, which he has manifested in this
transaction, would he not have denied it, if
it had
truth?
been without any foundation m
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N6
one who is unprejudiced can '
say he wou
d not. The fact is when Har- i
hmostriss first 'arrived in Washington before he
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was properly drilled he acknowledged the
diflicultjy he had in reloading, admitted
the assistance he received, from Dr. Gib
son, andl was very earnest and particular in
Ye Tu u , u ; i m t, r ,i
Aftcf hed been here awhile he fell
mto shrewder hands, who upbraided him
for hav
jiig never learned, or if ever learn
orgettingj the first lesson taught a
even then with the assisfance of Dr.
Charles
Bell
Gibson. : . . . , - '
Harriss was so ealm and self-
Again, if
possessed, why did his voice become sud-
muzzle of his pistol?-
It was painfuTto witness the agitation
and stuttering of- the fellow; So m e little
parade is made in Harriss's cardahout the
affair havingj stopped after the first fire,
without an' explanation -any apology
any reconciliation.' -' "..' ' 1 ,
, Mr. Clark was not disposed : to pursue the
matter any further, for reasons not worth
while here to disclose.' Htrriss has no where
alleged that f Mr.- CIark,-; Was wanting iin
in-'"coolness and self possession
Indeed in a
statement, which I have in Harriss's own
hand writing, he admits that . Mr. Clark
behayed with "modesty, dignity and elf-
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