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The Daily Dispatch: May 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
tens and hundreds, by companies and regiments, and they should send to their Governor and ask him for commissions as soon as they had their regiments formed. It was written in the Constitution that the people have the right to have and to bear arms for the defence of themselves, and, not of the Union, but of the State. They should keep their arms, and if they had not them they should get them, and be ready under their gallant Governor, to defend the liberties of their State. Judge McCann said he thanked God that in the State of New York they had a Governor who stood by the people of the State, and would not let them be robbed of their liberties without his solemn protest. He would say to them, "Don't be afraid." There is but one course for freemen — liberty and friendship or annihilation and death. Capt. Rynders said those who are to administer the law should be careful that they do not set the example of breaking the paramount law of the land themselves. My friend