3-1-1852: “Every body in America is, in some degree, a soldier. Every body understands the use of fire-arms, and has been accustomed to handle them from childhood..."

The Daily Dispatch, “Every body in America is, in some degree, a soldier. Every body understands the use of fire-arms, and has been accustomed to handle them from childhood. There is scarcely any person who, in a country so full of forests and defiles as this is, could not render eminent services as a marksman. In this respect, we are unlike, and superior to, any nation on the face of the earth. . . . They are, themselves, the only enemy whom they have to dread.”, March 1, 1852