"yet liberty was not destroyed until the jealousy of her rulers had deprived the people of the use of arms"

   "Again, it is said, "our country is to large for a republic." Why so?--is Russia, three times as large, more happily governed?--Whence comes the opinion? The Roman commonwealth was destroyed; but not from the extent of its territory.-- Rome had nothing like our confederation in the constitution of her government--a city, it may be said, gave the law to a world. There was no representation to bring to a common focus the feelings and interests of the widely distributed parts--there were no state sovereignties to preside over the local concerns of the people. Their elections were civil wars; and the army generally decided contested points between her ambitious citizens:--yet liberty was not destroyed until the jealousy of her rulers had deprived the people of the use of arms--and then, indeed, despotism had its full sway. With us every citizen is constitutionally a soldier, and may the fate of Haman be his who shall plot to deprive them of the inestimable privilege of bearing arms. Yet something else is necessary--a general diffusion knowledge in the establishment of schools."

- THE WEEKLY REGISTER. Vol. 1. BALTIMORE, SATURDAY, September 7, 1811. No. 4(?). Printed and published by H. Niles. Water-street, near the Merchants' Coffee House, at $5. per annum:  Pg. 9