10-12-1876: "the Constitution of the United States, which guarantees to the people the right to keep and bear arms, will, should the time arrive to invoke that aid, afford every needful protection. The owner can, therefore, retain his gun or his sabre, and of course he will do so”

Yorkville Enquirer, “Each member owning a gun, whether it be a flint-lock blunderbuss, a Spencer rifle or an Austrian needle-gun, can claim that arm as his own private property, the same as his watch or spectacle-case; and in the quiet, peaceable possession of this article of private property, the Constitution of the United States, which guarantees to the people the right to keep and bear arms, will, should the time arrive to invoke that aid, afford every needful protection. The owner can, therefore, retain his gun or his sabre, and of course he will do so”, Oct. 12, 1876