...se of taking your life, you are to wait, as a wise expedient of defence, until he makes the "overt act"--shoots you. This is one of those glaring absurdities, which only such daring submissionists as Botts and Crittenden are capable of proposing. No ordinary man can hope to comprehend its mysterious sublimities. We have been favored, says the Journal of Commerce, with the following letter f...