11-6-1865: "If there is no law for officers, if they are lawless, why may we not follow their example? Some said we most do it to protect ourselves, as the law gives no protection. Thus did the officials introduce lawlessness and crime, which still prevails.”

The Indianapolis Daily Herald, “forbidding the people to purchase arms . . . notwithstanding tbe Constitution declares the right to bear arms shall not be infringed. All security to person and property was gone. In this state of things many reasoned thus: If there is no law for officers, if they are lawless, why may we not follow their example? Some said we most do it to protect ourselves, as the law gives no protection. Thus did the officials introduce lawlessness and crime, which still prevails.”, Nov. 6, 1865