11-1-1881: "and when they declared that the right of American citizens to bear arms should not be infringed, they meant just what they said"

The Rock Island Argus, “the enactment of this law, was secretly inspired by the influence of tory minds and flunkey hearts as a means to an end, and that end was the ultimate disarming of the American people . . . the right of owning an article implies the right of carrying the same . . . and when they declared that the right of American citizens to bear arms should not be infringed, they meant just what they said“, Nov. 1, 1881