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The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
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Haiti's Senate and Chamber of Deputies ordered full-length portraits of US Senator Sumner to honor his advocacy for Haitian independence. In the Deputy Chamber, placing the portrait next to former ruler Dessalines led to vehement objection from a member whose grandfather was executed by him, resulting in a duel challenge that was prevented by friends.
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Haiti
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debate finally resulted in a challenge to fight a duel; but when the affair was about to come off, friends stepped in and prevented bloodshed
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Grateful for Senator Sumner's advocacy of the independence of their country, the Senate and Chamber of Deputies of Haiti ordered two full-length portraits of the Senator, to hang in the respective chambers. It was decided the picture in the Deputy Chamber should be placed next to a former ruler, Dessalines, but a member present objected vehemently, as his grandfather had been hung by that personage, and the debate finally resulted in a challenge to fight a duel