1-26-1874: "“It declared the equality of rank, advocated freedom of the press, free speech, the right of the people to assemble and discuss their grievances and their right to bear arms. It asserted that the history of the present parties was a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having for their object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over the people of the United States.”

New-York Tribune, “It declared the equality of rank, advocated freedom of the press, free speech, the right of the people to assemble and discuss their grievances and their right to bear arms. It asserted that the history of the present parties was a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having for their object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over the people of the United States.”, Jan. 26, 1874