5-21-1861: “but the Constitution, which guarantees to every man the right to keep and bear arms, is to be trampled under foot, and his house pillaged, or his arms wrested from his hands."

Weekly Standard, “but the Constitution, which guarantees to every man the right to keep and bear arms, is to be trampled under foot, and his house pillaged, or his arms wrested from his hands. But the Governor of this State has issued his proclamation assuring his citizens that they shall have protection against the last named usurpation.”, May 21, 1862