"that at last even the right of the people to keep and bear arms had been Infringed"

War in New Orleans.

   There was desperate fighting In New Orleans on the 14th between armed bodies of citizens and the Metropolitan forces. Several persons on both sides were killed or wounded. The following is a summary of the account of the affair, as given by the Associated Press dispatches of that date:

   A mass meeting of citizens was held in the forenoon, in response to a call signed by fifty business men and firms of the city. In this call it was declared that for nearly two years the people had been silent but indignant sufferers of outrage after outrage heaped upon them by an usurping government; that at last even the right of the people to keep and bear arms had been Infringed, in violation of the Federal Constitution; that the citizens were therefore called upon to close their places of business and assemble together, and, "In tones loud enough to be heard throughout the length and breadth of the land, declare that you are of right, ought to be, and mean to be free."....

- The Perrysburg Journal, Perrysburg, Wood Co., Ohio, Friday, September 18, 1874. Vol. XXII.--No. 22. Pg. 1.