"are accustomed from infancy to the use of fire arms"

"The Americans, generally, are accustomed from infancy to the use of fire arms; very little training will therefore be required to make them gun-men."--Senator Isaac D. Barnard, from Pennsylvania, March 1, 1830.

[REGISTER OF DEBATES IN CONGRESS, COMPRISING THE LEADING DEBATES AND INCIDENTS OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS: TOGETHER WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING IMPORTANT STATE PAPERS AND PUBLIC DOCUMENTS AND THE LAWS ENACTED DURING THE SESSION, WITH A COPIOUS INDEX TO THE WHOLE. VOLUME VI. WASHINGTON: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY GALES AND SEATON. 1830. Pg. 222]