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as a necessary auxilliary to the Civil Authorities in preserving the public peace and providing against traitorous attempts to destroy it and subvert the Government, but now that War is ended and these Rebellious agents are all professing penitence and suing for pardon, and when even in the States so lately most conspicuous in the Rebellion, the Government is manifesting its anxiety to restore with as little delay as possible the Civil Authority, and relieve them of all Military rule, the resort again to such a rule in such a State as of Maryland, would as you may readily suppose, excite among the most loyal of her people extreme dissatisfaction.

Nor is there in any peculiar condition of the laws of this state anything to excuse such a proceeding towards her. Col. Eaton speaks of this Military interference as required until the Legislature of the state can abolish the state laws with "cover the perpetration" of the alleged Abuses. I must respectfully deny that there is any peculiar deformity in our state laws or any