I've seen other accounts that it was in September. But regardless of the difference in dates, the fact was that the Maryland legislature was not arrested, much as Paige would have us believe. Some 35 members were arrested and held for about two months before being released in November. And I would point out that at the time the U.S. was engaged in combating armed rebellion initiated by the southern states. Battles had been fought and were being fought in the east and the west. And now you had a minority of the members of the Maryland legislature advocating joining that armed rebellion against the central government. In all honesty what the heck did you expect the government to do? At best the members were advocating rebellion. And if you accept the fact that the confederacy was an independent nation, as you and Paige do, then at worst the members of the Maryland legislature were advocating treason. Did you expect no response at all? Had 35 members of the Alabama legislature advocated taking the state out of the confederacy and back into the Union do you think that the actions of the Davis regime would have been any different? Be honest now.