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The Code of Honor

"The Code of Honor." New-York Saturday Press. 12 Mar. 1859: 2.
Type: 
newspaper
Genre: 
commentary
Abstract: 

Tongue-in-Cheek criticism of “The Code of Honor," which makes it "not only respectable to kill, but respectable to be killed." The author denounces people who follow “The Code” at all costs despite the fact that their instincts tell them to do otherwise.