Excerpt from Annual Opening, and Concluding Addresses Delivered Before the Maryland Institute, for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts: During the Annual Exhibition of the Institute, in 1848-1849 and 1850

Were we to attempt to dramatize that portion' of the past, known as the middle ages, we would cause the curtain to rise upon a scene, the principal feature of Which shoirld be a castle perched upon a crag, close to some highway of commerce, down the narrow path from which men in armor marched, as they either hastened to rob a traveler, or, to set themselves in array, for or against a sovereign, whose throne tottered or stood firm as they threatened or upheld it.' The castle should be the representative of Power on the scene.

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