2-22-1867: “There is hardly a solitary amendment of the constitution, whether relating to free press . . . to bearing arms . . . that this military bill does not utterly and shamelessly disregard. . . . the congress of the United States would enslave a whole people lest a few lawless men should go unpunished.”

The Memphis Daily Appeal, “There is hardly a solitary amendment of the constitution, whether relating to free press, to free speech, to the right of assemblage, to freedom of person or from search, to presentment by a grand jury or a jury trial, to bearing arms, or the reserved rights of the people, that this military bill does not utterly and shamelessly disregard. . . . the congress of the United States would enslave a whole people lest a few lawless men should go unpunished.”, Feb. 22, 1867