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The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], A singular affair of honor. (search)
A singular affair of honor. [From the N. Y. Commercial.] There arrived by the Edinburg on Saturday, from Europe, Captain C. Lee Moses, of Saco, Maine, late United States Astronomer, &c., who is yet the sufferer from the results of a singular and not unromantic affair of honor, which was fought on the Seine, near Paris, on the 19th of August last. The particulars of the affair are as follows: Capt. Moses, although a South Carolinian by birth, is a strong and devoted adherent to the cause of the Union, and during his journey through France made no hesitation in expressing his sympathies and feelings for the United States Government, and his abhorrence of the Southern traitors and rebels. Hon. F. G. Farquar, of Virginia, meeting the Captain at a hotel in Paris, and knowing his parentage, reproached him in opprobrious terms as a renegade from his native State. He charged him with being a traitor to the South, and a man of no honor because he abandoned her when she n