[July 4, 1844] "“At midnight the streets were filled with boys who . . . seemed to be bountifully supplied with pistols, guns and small cannon"

Vermont Phœnix, “At midnight the streets were filled with boys who commenced and kept up until broad day light, an incessant discharge of firearms . . . these young patriots seemed to be bountifully supplied with pistols, guns and small cannon, with which they kept up a constant firing in our principle streets”, July 12, 1844