[rebelyell]

No, because Sumner insulted a relative of Brooks', that's why. You marxists aren't familiar with honour but it means something down here.

[republicanwizard]

Yes, like the honor of all the Southern slave women whom your masters and slavedrivers defiled. Yes, we know of your honor, and we find it repulsive.

[Non-Sequitur]

You marxists aren't familiar with honour but it means something down here.

So...the southern code of honor requires that if you are insulted you send out a distant cousin to do your dirty work?

[Ditto]

You marxists aren't familiar with honour but it means something down here.

So honor in the South means that a young man can sneak up behind an old man and beat him nearly to death with a cain?

Up here, young men don't beat up old men, and men fight face to face.