In the case of the two offenders, thus dismissed from his presence, the penalty was, of all others, the most terrible to persons, in whose minds there remained the sparks even of a conventional honor.

These men had been guilty of numerous offences against humanity.
Marion expelled them from his brigade.

Subsequently, their actions became such, that he proclaimed their outlawry through the country.** By one of these men he was challenged to single combat, but he treated the summons with deserved contempt.

His composure remained unruffled by the circumstance.
* Horry's MS., from which the several extracts preceding have been made .-- pp.

100-103.
** He set up on trees and houses, in public places, proclamations in substance thus, that Major----and Capt.
---- did not belong to his brigade, that they were banditti, robbers and thieves,--were hereby deemed out of the laws, and might be killed wherever found .-- Horry's MS.pp.