12-30-1857: Alabama Legislature, “that there is nothing in our constitution and laws, or treaty stipulations, to interfere with the right of individual citizens of this country . . . in the exercise of that right they can carry arms with them.”

Alabama Legislature, “that there is nothing in our constitution and laws, or treaty stipulations, to interfere with the right of individual citizens of this country to emigrate to Nicaragua, and if they think proper, to aid in the establishment of a government of liberal principles–and that in the exercise of that right they can carry arms with them.”, Dec. 30, 1857