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Alas! that so sudden and sad should be his end, but fit-
ting that the close of life should be in the capital of the State
he loved so well, where he was born, and near the familiar
scenes of his boyhood, the first conflicts of his manhood, and
the triumphs of his mature years.

Still clad in the panoply of his mighty mind, he has passed
from among men, and now rests from the fierce conflict of
bis busy life. The Temples of Justice of the land will no
more resound to the full tones of his impassioned soul.

He has been admitted to the Bar above, where the Great
Judge presides, and it remains for us to pay our homage and
respect to the venerated memory he has left behind.

At the conclusion of the remarks by Mr. Stevens, Mr.
Steiner arose and said:

Mr. President:—I deem it a privilege to support the
Resolutions now presented. No Marylander can hear of the
decease of the illustrious citizen, whose memory they attempt
to honor, without feeling a thrill of sadness pass through
his frame at, the thought that her great jurist, statesman
and diplomatist has been gathered to his fathers. Death is
always associated with sadness, and sorrow to the living.—
That which was animated with "the roundness and glow of
life," which was the object of affection and veneration to
family and frieuds, which enkindled love and admiration in
the social circle, and respect and veneration in public life,
which moved listening crowds with the magic eloquence of
well chosen words, and the force of a ponderous logic,
which won multitudinous honors in the forum, the Senate,
and in the mysterious mazes of cunning diplomacy, that
has been suddenly extinguished in this case, leaving a dull
aching void, which thousands look upon with tearful eyes.—
Death closed a career of wonderful success, and constant and
almost unvarying triumph, while the mental faculties were
undimmed by the flight of years, and the wasting effects
of time. There was something indescribably grand in the
resolute firmness, with which the veteran lawyer continued
to tread the laborious paths of an exacting profession, after
the eye had ceased to furnish the aid to research and study
that would seem almost indispensable. But while the bodily
eye refused to lend its aid any longer in laborious research,
the mental eye remained undimned in lustre, and the mas-
sive intellect unshorn of those qualities that gave it the
mastery of every subject it grasped. And thus like a sheaf
of wheat filled with fully ripe grain ready for the garnar,
was the deceased taken from the fields, where he had acquir-
ed his fame and enduring reputation.

What an example of what energy, and untiring assiduity
can do in a professional life, is not furnished us by his career—