9-5-1875: "The courts were bribed, or corrupted, or intimidated into positive obedience to the usurper . . . They knew that the most sacred right guaranteed by the Federal Constitution had been infringed–the right to keep and bear arms.”

The New Orleans Bulletin, “The political and personal rights of citizens had been invaded inch by inch until endurance was no longer possible. . . . The courts were bribed, or corrupted, or intimidated into positive obedience to the usurper . . . They knew that the most sacred right guaranteed by the Federal Constitution had been infringed–the right to keep and bear arms.”, Sept. 5, 1875