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'Caesar Imperator!', 1861. ('The American Gladiators') The American Gladiators are President Lincoln on the left to represent the Northern States. On the right is Jefferson Davis, the president of the Southern States, otherwise known as the Confederate States of America. The contest is presided over by a representative of the Southern slaves, indicating one of the main issues that divided the two sides, and that would lead to the American Civil War. From Punch, or the London Charivari, May 18, 1861.