m'carter

Updated: June 29, 2025

But where is Mr. M'Carter, the more fortunate party in the duel?

Austin Steward - Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman: Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years,: While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West

The challenge was therefore sent, and accepted, and the Doctor appointed to make the necessary arrangements for the duel. He proposed the weapons to be pistols, and the distance, ten paces; to which M'Carter objected, because he said, "the General was a dead shot with the pistol, while he hardly knew how to use one." Then it was left to M'Carter to choose the mode of warfare.

Austin Steward - Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman: Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years,: While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West

M'Carter, two antagonistic politicians. M'Carter offered his vote to the inspectors, and Mason challenged it. M'Carter offered to swear it in, when Mason said if he did so he would perjure himself.

Austin Steward - Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman: Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years,: While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West

Bruno wrote to M'Carter to come to Washington, and he came immediately, and was as readily waited upon by the Doctor, who inquired if he would receive a communication from his friend, Gen. Mason. M'Carter replied, that he "would receive no communication from Gen. Mason, except a challenge to fight."

Austin Steward - Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman: Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years,: While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West