"Give him a Winchester, ready for action, and a brace of good six-shooters like the boys outside have...."

  --The Talladega (Ga.) Reporter makes the novel suggestion that when a jail is assailed by a mob intent upon the life of an inmate and when it is apparent that the mob will reach its victim the culprit be armed for self-defense. Give him a Winchester ready for action and a brace of good six-shooters like the boys outside have, and though they are ten to one against him it will in a measure give him a chance. It is easy enough for men to be brave when they are a hundred armed and free to one empty handed and confined. Let it be known that the man inside is ready to meet them on even one chance to a hundred, and the bravery of the midnight law breaker will soon cool off."

[The Hazel Green Herald, Hazel Green, Wolfe County, KY., Friday, August 28, 1891. Seventh Year. Number 23. Pg. 7]

"The law against carrying concealed deadly weapons is a perfect farce...."

[Semi-Weekly South Kentuckian,  Hopkinsville, Christian County, KY., June 13, 1884. Volume VI. Number 48 Pg. 3]

"...who in turn have been armed in self-defense."

COLORADO SUFFERS
ANOTHER DISGRACE

   The appeal for federal soldiers to serve in Colorado with a view to suppressing the violence and disorder which have characterized the Rockefeller-Colorado war against the United Mine Workers, has led the president to order troops to the strike district.

   There is no civilized nation which would permit conditions to exist that have been found in Colorado and West Virginia, where private armies have been maintained to make war against striking workingmen, who in turn have been armed in self-defense.

  In Colorado there is a state within the state. In spite of its pretensions to progress, in spite of the fact that it has women's suffrage, Colorado has presented a spectacle such as no other American State ever presented—the shooting down of women and children by armed thugs wearing the uniform of the state and in the pay of private interests.

   The presence of federal troops in Colorado should bring a halt to the armed conflict between the Rockefeller guards and the striking miners. It will be no slight gain to stop the killing of women and children. But Colorado's responsibility is heavy upon it. It has yet to deal With its public officials who have sold its authority. It has yet to deal with the men who have murdered in its name. It has yet to justify itself before the American people.

   Today Colorado stands a shameless harlot in the sisterhood of states.—The Milwaukee Leader.

[The Labor World, Duluth And Superior, [Minn.], May 2, 1914. Vol. 21. No. 48. Pg. 4]

"Justice does not demand that a man wait until he has been bored through with a pistol ball before he lifts his arm in self defense."

Nature's First Law.

   To kill a human being is a terrible thing. Self-preservation may require it, demand it, but it is a duty from which few men will not shrink. The knowledge, though it dwells in the secrecy of one's own bosom, that by his hand a fellow-being has been hurled into eternity, is the awful reward of an act of duty. "Self-preservation is the first law of nature," is a trite saying, but it is no less a true one. When a man threatens, provides himself with arms and dogs the footsteps of another with the avowed purpose of taking his life, the one who is threatened has a right to take whatever methods he may deem proper to protect himself, though it be the worst. Justice does not demand that a man wait until he has been bored through with a pistol ball before he lifts his arm in self defense; it does not even demand that he retreat from his assailant beyond his own desire. Nature has given him the right of personal liberty, the power of locomotion without unlawful restraint. No man has a right to deprive him of this.

[The Holt County Sentinel, Oregon, Missouri, Friday, October 4, 1907. 43rd Year, Number 21 Pg. 1]

"The colored people are arming in self defense...."

BY TELEGRAPH.

Special to the "Sentinel.'

NEW ORLEANS.

Riots and Bloodshed--The Civil Power Unable to Keep the Peace.

  New Orleans, May 15. The Times special dated Summit, Mississippi, May 15th, says: Information was received last night of the row between the negroes and whites at Laurel Hill, West Feliciana Parish, near the Mississippi line. On Friday night about 30 negroes went to the store of a white man in the vicinity, called him to the door and riddled him him with bullets. A posse from Bayou sara went out on Saturday for the body. The negroes would not not give it up and a fight ensued. Three niggers were killed and two white men were missing. The negroes gathered and 1100 are said to be under arms. Whites are going down from the neighboring counties in Mississippi. A serious fight is expected. A special to the Republican from Bayou sara of May 16th, says: Eight colored men have been shot dead, four hanged and about 20 wounded. No whites killed. Persons just from the scene report 6 blacks killed, but this statement is considered exaggerated. Twenty colored men are reported, held as hostages. Their fate is uncertain but the supposition is that they will be killed; also that the number of negroes killed will never be known, precaution having been taken to remove the dead secretly. The number of regulators under arms are said to be 500 from east Baton Rouge and east and west Feliciana and Wilkinson Co., Mississippi. The colored people are arming in self defense. Saturday and Sunday nights a number of colored men crossed to Point Coupee to escape those hunting them. Governor Antoine has received the following dispatch from Dr. Kaufman, Sheriff of East Feliciana Parish dated at Bayou sara: "In reply to your telegram I have to say that seventeen colored men are killed and many wounded on the line of Mississippi and Louisiana. A large number of armed white men are approaching this town. We cannot summon and secure a posse comitatus for the support of the civil authority and the suppression of riots and the prevention of further bloodshed. Nothing but military authority will keep peace. Therefore I respectfully request that the military be placed at my disposal." Dispacthes have been laid before General Augur, commanding the Department who has referred them to Washington.

[The Arizona Sentinel, Yuma, A.T., Saturday, May 20, 1876. Vol. V. No. 6. Pg. 2]

"willfully discharge any gun or fire arms (except in necessary defense of self or property)...."

Sec. 4. Any person who shall, within the limits of the borough, willfully discharge any gun or fire arms (except in necessary defense of self or property), or shall wantonly throw any metal, stone, brick bullet, or other missile, or who shall explode any torpedo, bomb, or fire crackers, or fire works in the streets, or raise any false alarm of fire, shall for every such offense forfeit and pay a fine of not less than one nor more than ten dollars, in addition to any damage he may occasion; or if any person shall mutilate, injure, deface, or destroy any fence, house, or gate within the borough limits, such person shall for every such offense forfeit and pay a fine of not less than one nor more than ten dollars.

[The Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, PA., Thursday, May 07, 1868. Volume 2. Number 14. Pg. 4]

"authorizes loyal citizens to carry their private arms for self-defense..."

Tennessee Restrictions Removed.

   We are pleased to see it announced in the telegraphic dispatches from Washington, that more restrictions upon trade in Tennessee have been removed, by order of the Secretary of the Treasury. The shipment of arms, ammunition, grey uniforms and grey cloth is allowed to and from the State. It supply the people at once with powder, lead, shot and caps, as well a with squirrel guns and fowling pieces. They are needed, and will not, it is presumed, be used improperly by the citizens. A law of the State, enacted just before the Legislature adjourned, authorizes loyal citizens to carry their private arms for self-defense. It is therefore but right that they should have the privilege of purchasing ammunition.

[Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and Rebel Ventilator, Knoxville, Tenn., Wednesday, July 26, 1865. Volume II. Number 24. Pg. 2]

   The American Civil War had ended on June 2, 1865.