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Dickinson's first contribution to this controversy was a 

 letter written to Jackson on January 10, and delivered 

 after Dickinson's departure for New Orleans. Dickin- 

 son's second contribution was a communication to the 

 Impartial Review immediately after his return about May 

 2Oth. It was this article that brought Jackson's challenge, 

 Dickinson's death, and a wound that caused Jackson 

 great physical suffering at frequent intervals the remainder 

 of his life even in his dying hours. 



During Dickinson's absence the controversy raged in 

 the columns of the Review the impartial Review; it 

 brought a caning to Thomas Swann from Jackson; and a 

 duel between McNairy and Coffee, on March ist. 



The second match between Truxton and Ploughboy 

 may have been arranged before the controversy started 

 there is no evidence extant on that point. But it is 

 more than probable that it, too, grew out of this Quixotic 

 quarrel. And it is certain that the intense feeling between 

 the two factions found expression at Clover Bottom on 

 April $d and made this Truxton-PIoughboy contest the 

 most serious ever witnessed there. That everybody was 

 expected and that standing room would it was thought 

 be at a premium, is shown by the following advertise- 

 ment that appeared in the ever impartial Review, March 

 15, 1806, and on divers dates thereafter: 



CLOVER BOTTOM RACE 



On Thurfday the 3d of April next, will be run, the 

 greateft and moft interefting match race ever run in the 

 Weftern country, between Gen. Jackfon's horfe 



TRUXTON 



6 years old carrying 124 Ibs. and Capt. Jojepb Erwin's horfe 



PLOUGHBOY 



8 years old carrying 130 Ibs. These horfes run the two- 

 mile heats, for the fum of 3,000 dollars. No stud horfes can 



