Evening Star, Washington, D.C., 8-13-1855: "They would have been unworthy of their high privilege of American citizenship, had they failed to defend their lives..."

Evening Star, Washington, D.C., “resorted to fire-arms. . . . citizens did right in thus essaying to defend their lives and those of their wives and children wantonly and without provocation assailed. They would have been unworthy of their high privilege of American citizenship, had they failed to defend their lives and those of their households“, August 13, 1855