6-5-1856: “Deny the right of the citizen ‘to bear armes.’ Trample on the constitutional guarantees of ‘freedom of speech and of the press.’ Learn if you are bent on provoking the lesson, that when you make freedom ‘treason’ and defence of domestic rights a ‘felony,’ you must expect to find ‘traitors’ enough and ‘felons’ enough to hurl you down from the public trust you have so long and so infamously abused.”

The Wyandot Pioneer, “Deny the right of the citizen ‘to bear armes.’ Trample on the constitutional guarantees of ‘freedom of speech and of the press.’ Learn if you are bent on provoking the lesson, that when you make freedom ‘treason’ and defence of domestic rights a ‘felony,’ you must expect to find ‘traitors’ enough and ‘felons’ enough to hurl you down from the public trust you have so long and so infamously abused.”, June 5, 1856