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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

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…

Scene in Washington

Cartoon satirizing James Webb for his involvement in a recent fatal duel between Cilley and Graves