8-6-1861: "Our people are denied the right secured to them in their own constitution and the Constitution of the United States; yet we hear no complaints here of violations of the Constitution in that respect.”

U.S. Senator [and soon to be President] Andrew Johnson, “declare that “a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Our people are denied the right secured to them in their own constitution and the Constitution of the United States; yet we hear no complaints here of violations of the Constitution in that respect.”, Aug. 6, 1861