6-30-1865: “Give us what the Constitution in its original purity intended . . . the free and inalienable right of life and liberty–the right to have and bear arms . . . and holding us properly amenable for the right use of those blessings.”

The Tri-Weekly Journal, “Give us what the Constitution in its original purity intended; to be our own judges of our rights and our wrongs–to have the right to assemble in our sovereign capacities for the making of our laws–the free and inalienable right of life and liberty–the right to have and bear arms–the right to hold property and to give title–and holding us properly amenable for the right use of those blessings.”, June 30, 1865