[AnAmericanMother]

LOL - there was a war on. And it was a scandal anyhow. Plus the Code Duello was still in (unofficially) so there were consequences to acting like an idiot.

Maybe that's what we need . . . pistols at dawn.

[Verginius Rufus]

The caning incident was a couple of years before the Civil War started (although there was already violence in Kansas Territory).