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duty of your Honor to pronounce the decision of that ques-
tion.

We and the country will be gratified to have your decision
on that point. The settlement of this question would restore
the State to that condition of peace and quietness which once
existed, and to which all of its citizens have been looking
forward with fond hopes and expectations. God grant
that it may soon arrive. The Maryland of to-day is not the
Maryland of his youth. May our beloved State become what
it has been in the past, the home of chivalric citizens and of
women, beautiful and pure, the latter uncontaminated by
politics, and removed from its debasing influences. Be wished
never to see a woman with a political newspaper in her hand.
Our beloved State, freed from the unhappy excitements of
politics, may go in the prosperous career which awaits the
efforts of its people.

Mr. Schley's remarks upon this subject, or rather his beau-
tiful apostrophe to the spirit of liberty, concord and social
harmony, was uttered with a degree of enthusiasm and
eloquence that he said he felt called upon to excuse himself
to his Honor for having been ,in the excitement of the moment,
led into observations perhaps foreign to the subject of his
argument.

REMARKS OF MR. RODGERS.

Mr. Rodgers said he had been requested by the State's
Attorney to request his Honor, in rendering his opinion in
this case, to state the grounds upon which his decision is
based, so that he could be governed thereby in any future
action which he might be required to take. He said, if these

fentlemen are discharged, and they should assume to act as
efore their commitments, and which action the State's At-
torney thought was ground for their arrest, and which no
doubt would lead to a breach of the peace, he would again be
compelled to renew the application to the Criminal Court, to
place them again under arrest. The law of habeas corpus,
he knew, would not allow a party, when discharged, to be
arrested again for the same offence, and therefore they wanted
to have grounds upon which the decision of the Court was
based, accurately based.

Mr. Latrobe.—You had better wait until the decision is
rendered, then you can take measures for your action. Suf-
ficient for the day is the evil thereof.

Orville Horwitz, Esq., said it would be equally gratifying
to the counsel for petitioners if his Honor would, in his writ-
ten opinion, state the grounds of his decision.

Judge Bartol gaid, in view of the magnitude of the interests
involved in the case, he would take time to carefully consider
his opinion, and would give it in writing on Tuesday next,
at 12 o'clock, in the Superior Court room.