2-20-1867: “the bill . . . It infringes the right of the people to bear arms: . . . All this, that a band of infernal conspirators worthy only of penal colonies, the bastile and the gallows, may perpetuate their accidental power . . . HOW LONG–WE MAY ASK, HOW LONG WILL THE PEOPLE WAIT?“

The Daily Empire, “the bill . . . It infringes the right of the people to bear arms: . . . All this, that a band of infernal conspirators worthy only of penal colonies, the bastile and the gallows, may perpetuate their accidental power, and execute their malevolent will. HOW LONG–WE MAY ASK, HOW LONG WILL THE PEOPLE WAIT?“, Feb. 20, 1867