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brought to bear upon them from political causes, and to do justice by discharging the prisoners. They must bear in mind that the Government of the Confederate States had the same right to issue letters of marque that our Revolutionary forefathers had, and if these men were wrong, so were their predecessors. Mr. Brady then took the floor and addressed the jury. He regretted that the trial had been called on at this juncture, when the public mind was so prone to excitement; yet the city of New York was showing by it that free speech and freedom of opinion were not yet extinct. He then went on at great length to review the cause of the war — which was not one for the abolition of slavery — and passed to a careful analysis of the testimony that had been submitted. He also referred to the law governing the case of the Joseph, recently tried in Philadelphia. In the course of his argument, the learned gentleman spoke very plainly in regard to Mr. Lincoln, and other members of the Go