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Scene in Uncle Sam's Senate
 
Detail from "A Scene in Uncle Sam's Senate," cartoon depicting a near-duel on the Senate floor over the issue of admitting California as a free state in 1850. Lithograph by Edward Williams Clay. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-4835.