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26 March 1826
Penal Code

Ch III Offences - person & Rep
§3 Challenging
8
Competition removing
challenging examples

Of challenging dueling for removal of competition;
for pre-eminence in political influence, the
affair between general Alexander Hamilton of the United
States and colonel Burr will afford a
memorable and instructive
example. The following account is from the lips
of colonel Burr himself - he made no secret
of it. Hamilton had written against
me in the publick prints. I gave him
to understand that he must fight me.
He was unwilling: He promised to do so
no more: I forgave him. Not long after,
he was at the same game again.
This was not to be endured. I insisted
this time on his fighting me. I would
take no refusal. You know the consequence.
Colonel Burr, so he said himself had so much experience
he made sure of his mark. The
fact of his having practised with this view is
matter of notoriety in the United States.
The comparative indifference, with which a
transaction so characterized was viewed in
the United States may serve to show what
a degree of ascendancy this propensity even then had
acquired there. It has scrarcely abated since.

Identifier: | JB/016/054/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 16.
Date_1	1826-03-26	Marginal Summary Numbering	8
Box	016	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	054	Info in main headings field	penal code
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	john neal	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	5861
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