4-3-1854: “What can parents be thinking of to permit their boys, at the age of ten and twelve years, to carry deadly weapons? . . . we saw three lads, with pistols in their hands…”

The Daily Dispatch, “What can parents be thinking of to permit their boys, at the age of ten and twelve years, to carry deadly weapons? . . . we saw three lads, with pistols in their hands…”, April 3, 1854