"The people have a right to keep and bear arms, and this for the security of freedom"

  "3. The people have a right to keep and bear arms, and this for the security of freedom. The citizen is thus ever armed against foreign aggression, and prepared to encounter civil war, and becomes the sleepless sentinel of his liberties." [A CONCISE TREATISE UPON THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE PRINCIPAL STATE, COUNTY, AND TOWN OFFICERS. For the Use of Schools. BY A GENTLEMAN OF THE BAR. Utica, WILLIAM WILLIAMS, PUBLISHER AND PRINTER, No. 60, Genesse street. 1831. Pg. 23]