The order requiring the surrender of all private arms in the rural districts, must have been issued without due consideration by the authorities. In a slaveholding community, every family should be permitted to retain at least one fire-arm, either a pistol or a shot-gun. A sense of security, if not safety, demands that much. The reason is too obvious to require words.
If this be true of a whole slaveholding community, it is all more so of one at the doors of a large city, which will be overrun by the vagabonds who, will be driven from that city by the military.
We hope this subject will undergo the early revision of the authorities.
Daily Richmond Whig, Richmond, VA