8-7-1861: “arms owned by members of the family—bought with their own money, or the gifts of friends or relatives—have been deliberately stolen by the soldiers or sbirri of the Government at Washington"

The Daily Exchange, “arms owned by members of the family—bought with their own money, or the gifts of friends or relatives—have been deliberately stolen by the soldiers or sbirri of the Government at Washington—and this, too, in open defiance of that other article of the Constitution which declares that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”, Aug. 7, 1861