and assign your reason for such refusal. If there be a question made
as to the character of the note, require the second presenting it to
you, who considers it respectful, to endorse upon it these words: "I
consider the note of my friend respectful, and would not have been the
bearer of it, if I believed otherwise."

4. If the party called on, refuses to receive the note you bear, you
are entitled to demand a reason for such refusal. If he refuses to
give you any reason, and persists in such refusal, he treats, not only
your friend, but yourself, with indignity, and you must then make
yourself the actor, by sending a respectful note, requiring a proper
explanation of the course he has pursued towards you and your friend;
and if he still adheres to his determination, you are to challenge or
post him.

5. If the person to whom you deliver the note of your friend, declines
meeting him on the ground of inequality, you are bound to tender
yourself in his stead, by a note directed to him from yourself; and if
he refuses to meet you, you are to post him.

6. In all cases of the substitution of the second for the principal,
the seconds should interpose and adjust the matter, if the party
substituting avows he does not make the quarrel of his principal his
own. The true reason for substitution, is the supposed insult of
imputing to you the like inequality which if charged upon your friend,
and when the contrary is declared, there should be no fight, for
individuals may well differ in their estimate of an individual's
character and standing in society. In case of substitution and a
satisfactory arrangement, you are then to inform your friend of all
the facts, whose duty it will be to post in person.