"I suppose no sensible man would ask that a person whose dearest rights, whose property and life are menaced, should be disarmed"

   "American citizens have a constitutional right to bear arms and to take arms with them when they emigrate to Kansas, should they see proper. Indeed, no sensible emigrant would think of going to Kansas without them ever since Missouri invaded her ballot-boxes and stained her soil with the blood of Free-State settlers. Be they from the North or South, no one here questions the right of men to take the necessary steps for their own defense. Thee difficulties we deplore are chargeable to another source. I suppose no sensible man would ask that a person whose dearest rights, whose property
and life are menaced, should be disarmed "in order to keep the peace."--New-York Daily Tribune, "The Attack on Franklin." Sept. 01, 1856. Page 6.