4-12-1864: “Civil War Invoked. . . . Therefore, the next move of the conspirators will be to deprive Democrats of the constitutional right to bear arms and their forcible subjection to the will of fanaticism.”

Joliet Signal, “Civil War Invoked. . . . Therefore, the next move of the conspirators will be to deprive Democrats of the constitutional right to bear arms and their forcible subjection to the will of fanaticism.”, April 12, 1864