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Citizens of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, praying passage of law to prevent any person connected with duel from holding any office under General Government
Petition requesting action against the practice of dueling in D.C., especially amongst government officials.
To the Public
John McCarty attacking Armistead Mason's character in a public letter
Scene in Washington
Cartoon satirizing James Webb for his involvement in a recent fatal duel between Cilley and Graves
The new code of chivalry or what we would have done
A depiction of the late John Cilley in minstrel attire being held by Webb's companions as Webb murders him. It presents a counterfactual scenario in which Webb succeeded in catching Cilley.