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Message of His Excellency Joseph E. Brown : to the extra session of the Legislature, convened March 10th, 1864, upon the currency act; secret sessions of Congress; the late conscription act; the unconstitutionality of the act suspending the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, in cases of illegal arrests made by the President; the causes of the war and manner of conducting it; and the terms upon which peace should be sought, &c.