11-5-1874: "breathing out slaughter and destruction to a people who had only claimed the right to bear arms . . . Can such schemes of villainy be long sustained in a country claiming to be “the home of the free and the land of the brave?”

Weekly Democratic Statesman, “His intention was to completely disarm them, and then issue such decrees . . . the next step was to disarm them and deny them the ballot . . . breathing out slaughter and destruction to a people who had only claimed the right to bear arms . . . Were there ever greater crimes perpetrated against a people who were entitled to be free? . . . Can such schemes of villainy be long sustained in a country claiming to be “the home of the free and the land of the brave?”….”, Nov. 5, 1874