2-27-1875: " the right to bear arms was denied us, though it is a right expressly and forever guaranteed by the Constitution. . . . Then, a most marvelous picture in the tide of time: An armed and triumphant people, victorious at every point….”

The New Orleans Bulletin, “Have you not under the Constitution of the United States the privilege of carrying arms? And had not that wretch Kellogg put his legions into the field to keep you from procuring those arms which you had a right under the Constitution to bear? . . . and at last, by every species of outrage which might insult free-born people, the right to bear arms was denied us, though it is a right expressly and forever guaranteed by the Constitution. . . . Then, a most marvelous picture in the tide of time: An armed and triumphant people, victorious at every point….”, Feb. 27, 1875