12-31-1868: “Travellers on the Ogeeche road, leading to Savannah, are stopped at verious points and questioned by armed negroes. . . . It is said that the veto will take the ground that as the people have the right to bear arms, Congress has no authority on the subject.”

The Charleston Daily News, “Travellers on the Ogeeche road, leading to Savannah, are stopped at verious points and questioned by armed negroes. . . . It is said that the veto will take the ground that as the people have the right to bear arms, Congress has no authority on the subject.”, Dec. 31, 1868