“A single occurrence like the Hamburg massacre, where it is undisputed that six citizens of the United States, while in the exercise of a lawful right (the right to bear arms), especially guaranteed in the Constitution, were ruthlessly slain . . ."

The New Orleans Democrat, “A single occurrence like the Hamburg massacre, where it is undisputed that six citizens of the United States, while in the exercise of a lawful right (the right to bear arms), especially guaranteed in the Constitution, were ruthlessly slain . . . What, then, ought we to do if this massacre was not a single instance but one of a series of many hundred murders….”, Aug. 14, 1876