"which declare that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"

   This, my friends, is no fancy sketch. It is all a sad reality. Every one of the charges upon which I have arraigned the self-styled Democracy here to-night, is susceptible of demonstration. Do you ask when it violated the Constitution? I point you to Kansas ruled over by the self-styled Democracy, through a Legislature forced upon its inhabitants in violation of the professed principle of self-government and of law, passing and enforcing laws abridging the freedom of speech and of the press, by making it a Penitentiary offense to speak or publish anything denying the right to hold slaves in that Territory. Witness the disarming of the people of Kansas, when assembled in self-defense against invaders, and their dispersion by Federal troops when peaceably assembled for a redress of grievances, in direct violation of those clauses of the Constitution which declare that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, nor their right peaceably to assemble for a redress of grievances be abridged.--Senator Trumbull, June 29, 1857 Speech delivered at the Capitol of Illinois.

- Belmont Chronicle, St. Clairsville, Ohio. Thursday, July 30, 1857. New Series, Vol. I, No. 31. Whole No. 988. Pg. 1.