1-2-1856: Tennessee Legislature - "with no good result beyond making business for the courts and fees for the lawyers."

Tennessee Legislature, “Mr. Bowles considered the amendment would lead to numerous petty indictments, with no good result beyond making business for the courts and fees for the lawyers. . . . the bill would not prevent the slave carrying a gun wherever his master might send him. It was to prevent the slave from carrying a gun for the purpose of hunting at large, and at will.”, Jan. 2, 1856