12-23-1844: “Firing Pistols in the streets. It has become quite a practice of late . . . to carry about their persons fire arms and discharge them in the streets at night.”

American Republican And Baltimore Daily Clipper, “Firing Pistols in the streets. It has become quite a practice of late, for certain exquisits and geniuses of the soap-lock order, to carry about their persons fire arms and discharge them in the streets at night.”, Dec. 23, 1844