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No. 43.
UA LEIGH, (N. C.) FRIDAY, NOVKMKKU 7,1823.
To!. XIV
a.
THE 8TAK, .
JrJ XtrVi'&imUna Elate Oduttc,
' .'uMl,erlll,k
BELL tc LAWRENCE.
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it Jramr, awl mi paper liMOfHinarJ, bat at
()) ition tti ".'tii.x-.lr ill irmiMn
arc pU. A Jrlioicui v r.ot etaeedia if.
lera liai,U.riV-4 lbr umm fr nnc di.llar,
lnty.BT lor each ontinuiaM. .
411 letter U U eilUora aal a nct.pal4.
. f ii ii vii ; esi i) hnoYT-
. , From tb Newbern Sentinel.
The adherent of Mr. Crawford, io
t!Js state, are actively employe J in the
work of preparation. Uiry are evi
dently alarmed at the growing popular
ity of Mr.CALHouK.and thewuoleTrca
Mirr influence! to be brought into im
mediate requisition. This will be con
centrated at Raleigh 'duritg the ap
proaching session of the- legislature.
There, a wonderful display of radical
strength is to be exhibited, the ohject
of which will be to "silence opposition,
by the imposing majority that will then
be procure! to sustain Mr. Crawford.
Preparatory to the grand caucus, one
composed o a select number of indi
viduals, not member of the legislature,
but who will attend Crom Ihevarioui
sections of the stale for the purpose of
ariuinx yieir men, auu ucvisinir wars
and means' to prevent the 'nomination of
Mr. CaLhocn, will meet in conclave,
and from them will proceed tile neces
sary instructions. .-' i . .
" Previous to the August Elections, as
it is now ascertained, special care was
I taken to procure the nomination of men
Y to the Assembly, w ho would support the
I radical candidate for the Presidency,
uid the trick not being suspected by die
fiieneh of Mr. , Calhoun, so far ..sue
"reeded as Jo result in their, election.
Hence, in'many of the counties where
the people are decidedly in favor1 of Mr.
C. some of the members, without being
Able to assign any sufficient cause for
their preference, are . devoted to the
Treasury candidate. , va ' --,
; w:.K f-j ! t .,!...; - 1it.
iiiui mcne lutu 111 iici (, icv . iiic
friends of Mr. Calhoun' be true to
themselvesThey are associated with
the crcat body ut the people, and wtlj
be sustained m such" measures as they
Taay recommend, What if intrigue and
management should succeed in securing
to Mr. Crawford a nomination by a ma
jority of the legislature -what it half a
dozen . members of " Congress ( should '
meet ai; Raleigh, and descend to petty ,
electioneering tricks -Are tlie.fnends
of Mr.' Calhoch to be driven from their
purpose by arts like these? , Surely
not. The public voice tcalls .for an e:
lectoral ticket in opposition j. to, , Mr.
CrawforfT-ahd s.uch u", ticket tvitt be
proposed to the;;peo)ie; rl The predic
tion, 'therefore,1 of tU-.. I ialeish Register,
that there will be but cn ticket, and that
for Mr. Crawford is aboutl as near to
the truth, as wasw; there unqualified as
ertion that " Mr; Crawford will itin
.th3prelBidecdalcbair,M-.'- . .!
S ; t.jf:."c h i ; , -f ; f; v' .;V
The information; w hich we extracted,
kia our last caDcr. fronv the Favetleville
Observer, id confirmed by the fpl lowing
,twfucie; contained in tlie last Salisbury
juiuiiiM. iiicftuuii; gaiiiewiicn .tins
lladical party is playiiig in New-York,
is aso is we perceive by.tjicsc extracts)
attempting in North-Carolina. . Every
act niip'.K's a doubt ot the people, and
"a dispostiari ta commit that power which
.'.cau only exit ip the people, t a few
leaders. V'e trust, however, that it, is
- icarceiv necessary, to awaken the Vjki
lancc'of tlie citizens of Korth-Cai olia-
They can iiot bef blind to 'movements
of Such, a dangerous tendency, and that
ttey will ilo their. duty iirdet'eating the
attetnbfs of the unprincipled schemes
who would barter the independence of
the state ' for private gain we will not,
for a moment, permit ourselves to doubt.
, -4 -' 1 . IV&ih. lltp.
1 ".RADICAL sduEMES-W-
Co this gveattruththestarby which ifrerteer;
i Above 6uvs(.-lvcs our guustut shall b.(l6ar."
In our,last week's naner, we noticed
a scheme in comtemplation by some of
u r..f.. ? : l r . ' 1
me iHeHus-oi craw ism re&iainin
the small cuuhtics -pa the Roanoke and
obi
if tiiii pla is very . appi
Crawford' lias" afiV'.i;opr.!ariit
ent u Mr
V'.1;oini nfl-itv in tins
State, U is mostly in the small countit's:
Buw if.tlie lilcctors am" chosen by the
ple, these; sSsaU cor.nik will only
lave thc'il"illlvpinhf'5n thi plprlinn.
hut if by tlie Legisraturc, titeyVUI have
kihe 8tateK,; Thi'is thscheme.' But
ry io u io dc eiiecrcnr : isy manage'
wc?i, ds usual. . '; We are in poScssioh
a hct3,that authorized u'S in bcTieving,
at, it- is timcerlcd lor certain trusty
"u-iius oi Mr .;iawioid trotn diherenl
2cticniofihc $Uq, t attend the cext
, vtcinijly, to take thp election of PreBt
Jcnt fronv the people and, pJaco it in the
hands of the Leo uJatiii e. " The cbiect
Lrgialafure, with a view of e ie rtti
in
their influence over that body on the
Presidential election. If thry "can com
mand a majority of the memScrt, and it is
thought safest, then the Electors are to
chosen by the Lepalature; but if a
re majority cannot be brought into this
L-asure, then there is to b a tmtmt. to
give the electoral vote of North-Carali-
na to m. Jl.Crawford. ,
Tlie readers of the Western Caroli
nian may regt essuml. that this is no
fiction ofour brain. AVere it necessary.
we Could errn nv 4Kj mm. .r
Vt( these political missionaries to Raleigh.
, "u7 t"'"J upeci ic is our aim to
Mcite false suspicions. re nolf ak them
to Kotice whether, during the next ses
sion of the Legislature, certain leading
member . of Congress," collectors of
Ports, tc. expecUnta of a Radical ad
ministration, do not bang around the
walls of the State-House, without an r
"iicuMicvunur 10 retjuirc uirtr auca
I : i ' ii
uance. . ' -
"' From a sense of our duty as the con
ductor bf a public journal, and from an
earnest solicitude about every filing that
seriously ebneerns the honor and purity
ofour Republican government and free
institutions! we feel bound to annrize
the members elect of the schemes laid to
bias their judgments in the exercise of
meir aoty, in, short, to turn their votes
and their influence over to the service
of the Radicals." If the members, after
mis, super themselves to be cajoled,
Cheated,- and mis, we shall liave the
consolation of. knowing that we have
done or datyj but they will have to an
swer for themnekes, to their country and
their constituents. Weti. Caroli.uanS
1 1
.The Waslungton Republican makes
the following remarks upon a commu
nication, which' appeared in the Raleigh
Registeron the 4th ultimo, under; the
signature of A Citizen: ' , ; i v ; v.,
; Wei refer our readers to an article in
the last Rcgistefi signed . A Citizen,"
in which Mr. Calhoun, contrary to fact,
and without-the allegation of truth, is
accused of extravagance, of beins the
enemy of the militia," and , the friend of
a large etanding armyr as bein "actu
atod by a desua to systematical! y dis
credit the militia,- in order to hold up a
large military establishment; of endea
vouring .to discountenance the. whole?
some regulation of keeping expenditure!
within the bounds of appropriations, and
of being opposed to the accountability of
Register, we venture to affirm, knows
every one of- these assertions is direct
ly in opposition to the facts ' vet he
permits his journal to be the medium" of
this . vile.slander, m order to wjure ie
reputation of oni of tjie purest and most
uniform j republicans .of the country;
thus honino: to build ud the renutation
of his candidate, by demolishing that of
a 1 ran A v-l Kuril - " 1 ;, - . .
a ui caut:u iivaiat -i.. a . v-j-h' i.-n--,'.
- Mr. Calhoup,., who is thus charged
vwith extravagance, has done more for
economy, tnan au the leaders ot the
radicals, inciuuing ine cmet, put together-
What we assert is matter of pub
lic record, and cannot bfc contradicted.
By turning; to the Reports of the 1st
Session of ,the jrth Congress, ; Yol.vT,
No 83, it will be seen that he has re
duced ,the , expenses,, per , man,- from
S451 57, which was the amount of the
cost when he entered onilhe duties of
the War Department, to 8287.02 per
man: and that, after making allowance
for reduction in tlie prices of provisions,
and other articles of supply, and the
reducti6n in the establishment itself, he
J?Jh"an annual saving in the army
alone; ol Sl.349,218 Ob, or, in round
numbers, of neavljioae $nUliont three
hundred aridfty thousand dollart. So
much for his enmity to economy! ;
v He is accused also of being the ene
my ,of the mi'itia and the1 friend of a
large stanuing army; a slander vithout
the slighest pi-oof, and -directly contra-8
ry ,to tact 3F- Calhoun ha9 never ad
vocated a lar military establishment
tie lias been the advocate, .however, ol
military ecience, of military organiza
tion,. and the-stability of tie military
establishment. Ilia great object has
been to substitute science for numbers;
that is to say, with -tRe least possible
lorcc, to have the requisite military ex
perience and military ,knowledge.-;Hri
the present state of the world, he be
lieves these; to a certain extent to be
necessary to preserve the independence
of. all countries, not &s'azaint the mili
tia, but in aid of the "militia, renderin
them efficient, by acting in concert with
a small but perfect-' corps of regulars
lie has, indeed, done much to preserve
the present niilitary organizatiohV and
the means of military education,' or, in
other word,' the 'Academy at West
Poi nt, against . th i rude attacks of the
radicals, but not as the friend of a large
military establishment, or the enemy of
tlie militia, but as the friend of .military
science. '?', z . "'''
The
fmm the
feeling hare actuated him
Erst. W ae2rdiOrlv Cnd.
.cn me army was re-Jueed. alter tbe.e pride they f,-d in houourin ,0
nit r, in txing it peace e4Ub;!n
ment, 10.OTO his extrfme camber.
while many of the Jrtilin; rrniiSllcan,
among hora were Mr. Clavliovernur
Bibb, and even PresiJent Morroe him
self, were for re Laining a force of from
U.000 to 20.000. Mr. Calhoun In J,
even tlien, no great aversion to 6,(00;
bat insisted that, tf whttrver BinibT
the estqilifchsient khou!J cornet, it
should be permanently fixed, a.al riot
subjected to incessant nurtuationfrom
the attacks of artful and dsignii, j cien,.
lie bcliercd that nothing y-u mo; hos
tile to a proper spirit in tho army, or
the iinprovement of its discipline, than
iacessaat fluctuations; ar.d, thus feel
ing, he was anxious that the establish
ment should be rather small than rather
large.-" Ifovy shameful then, the endea
vor to excite a suspicion against one,
whose courre has, upon this, as well as
all other" points, 'been so patriotic and
unexceptionable. ",, ... 4V,
Bat he is" averse to the wholesome
regulation of keeping expeuditares
within' the appropriations! Cat any
assertion be more false and slanderous?
Where is the proof? Not the slightest
tittle of evidence has been offered to up
hold it, and not the slighest can be pro
duced. So far from it being true, the
very reverse is tlie bet, in this insjance,
as in the others. .'Mr. Calhoun has De
fer drawn a cent from the Treasury,
which was not authorized byjawj and
has even evinced the most anxious de
termination to make the appropriations
specific; and naxt, to reduce to the most
minute and certain heads' the esti
mates on which the appropriations are
founded.' To him the country Itindebt-
ed for flip nrptni nr!mimll nf,m nf
HfpeciSc appropriations,; Previous vto
iout inure wasno sucu tiling;, irtual
ly, as specific , appropriations; . each an-
pi-opriatiou," by the then existing; lay,
being liable, at the discret'win of the Pre
sidenf, to ba transferred t any otlier
neaa pi cpproppation: tue, whole being
thus placed under, the executive con-
trol,, Mr. Calhoun,; ttheu , a msinber id"I'n'0" that- has been trfade--and they
Congress saw the, e.vil; and by great
and vigorous efforts, in opposition to
Mr. Crawford,; the. Secretary, of the
Treasury, and who,' In a. letter t the
cnairman,ot the;;,i;ointui.ttee 6fiVays
and Means, opposed tlie changev'suc
ceeded in correcting it to a great extent,
although not fully as Mr Crayford ob
tained an injurious, modification of the
Eroposeq measure. When Mr. Cal
oun came into the - War Department,
he continued to be actuated by the same
leeiing; ana , nas succeeded,.vcy unre
mitting exertions, in reducing' the ex
penditares of the Department to iipeci-
fic; heads, and.i confining expenditures
to Jippropnations, wunout a single,
ceptiopj a circumstance which Lias ne
ver occurred before his timer .
Not contented wjth-thesev slanders,
the writer in the Register holds him up
as the enemypf the system of account
ability? Ile.Vhose' whole conduct has
been one devoted eff rt to enforce ac
countability, and. that with'e greatest
sirfcess. . . When he came infc office,
he found the unsettled balances of his
Department' amounting to about, "forty
millions of dollars.'' lie has reduced
them to tliree or four millions lie
found the public agents with ajarge and
unsettled baiancinctheirv hands; but,;
by the most .vigorous efforts, he has now
reduced this Department1 to' such, ime
thiid and accountability, that the whole
of ? tc expenditures (we speak almost
literally; accounted top within the
year, according to the act of Congress.' It
is thus, -that accumulating balances a
gainst the pivernment arc prevented;-4-
it is thus, the agents oi tnc government
are taught puirctuality;-and it is thus,
public Josses have been almost entirely
preventea Aitnougn mere are aoout
three thousand disbursing bfiiiefs in the
War Department," scattered over the
wnoie cxiem oi misgrcac couuiry, aim
many very remote from the scat of go
vernment, we "venture to say, such is
the herfectfon to. : whicji the system of
accouDiapiuiy.nas ueen orougni, in uus
Department, that pot a tenth per cent,
will be lost, by accident, or bj fraud, in
the eh'tire disuursementsof tlie Depart
ment, for the year.1, ! f .
The Richmond Enquirer ; ' says
" The information , e . have received
leaves ust little room to doubt that Wm.
II. Crawford will have the vote of New
York:" and ouotes as an authority for
the fact, the tesolutipns of Redhpok, in
favor of the treasury. ?.Ve' have olten
had occasion to smile at the real or af
fected ignorance of some southern pali
ticians when, treating of our State con
cerns; but we haVe never yet mef quite
so extravagant a miscontfuction fcr mis
representation as the above. t is quite
however in the Crawford manner a !
plunchawvn. - ew-Yoik contains 1 ,
50Q.OW) souU.and He 1 k aSoat 15 )0.
ilali-a-Jnifti irrn in ' , a "
. . . " " ,lt
III. Crawford, (wUuh is tlie nj solita
ry exprwsio.i of similar feelltir this
!:atej and by a very rrrtlaf process of
toijic. ute peat Mate, cuial km I all, is
traujJcrml t the interest of the Trea
sury. -Ittvehe editors of the.Ejuirer
ever heard of a brick being carried a
bout as the specimen nf a house? and do
they expect to snake (ha good people of
u is country ouy air.' Crak.nt by a
simiWexpedient--V. y. .luier.
Cenral JatVann it tlectrd to tha Senate
by a majority of. 10 otci! He wis lbs mIh
man i Tcnneaae who could turn John Wil
liams out-and L haa di it. 1i cwury
viy yrtrueU thangt." Richmond Enqiur.
er. '' . ' i ! f ' -..- ... .
'- This is an aspersion pon the irao
ter of General Jackson, that is as ma
lignant as it is unmerited. No one can
mistake the motive and feelings of Mr.
RitchUi He aims this insideoas .blow
as the partizan of WWiatn U. Crawford.
rii' I 11 a,
iiimgiy womu ne cioua the reputa
tion of the Patriot and tlie Hero in the
darkest gloom of infamy, if it would e-
ucit one oeam or approbation to end the
tottering fame of the Radical Chieftain.
But this morafturpitude will receive no
countenance. , There is too stron? a
feeling of virtue and magnanimity in
this Nation to allow the trophies of the
soldier and the honors of the citizen to
be invaded by impious hands; that it
may give new hopes to ,tho vassals of
corruption, and renovated strength to
unhallowed ambition.; Tlie same feel
ing will humble this unholy combination,
and teach them that the first honors of
the. Republic are not to; be, attained
through the devious aths of intrigue,
proscription, f and counterfeit patriot
ism; t-, - S ;J v- fSj, i S- ';4"
Long before the tandtdatcs for "the
Presidency were ihonzht vof.sfJeneral
Jackson's opiuion of Mr; Crawford was
toimed and; Irom that time to this, he
has thdught unfavorably of him,' and has
been Opposed toll inn Ilia election to
the" Senate is viewed by the friends of
Mr. Crawlb' d aa the most unpropitious
are now playing a deanerate rame for
the pmnami Nothing vill be. left liii'
done', that artifice can devise or cunning
can-jovent..' The'peculiar character of
the motleyconfederacy that hails the
Treasury candidate, proclaims treache
ry and distrust.- It i an ephemprial
darins.lind will soon be lost in tlie ma
jesty of a Nation'1 MllN. T, Put. ;
The Governor of Cpnneciicuthas ap
pointed Mr. JinwAnos, jn gentleju?r
friendty to'.Mr." CalhpontIont a
Senator of the.U, SlawSTto fill the va
cancy occasmttetrby the recent death of
Mr; Brferoinsn.' .A .northern paner re-
rks, in reference to these circum
stances, that "if things go on at this
rate we should not be surprised if cer
tain papers should change their tone
respecting Congressional caucuses
'" '. ' , Tanettrvilfo. fllixpr. .
f Extracts from a letter to the Editor bf the
Western Carolinian, from a c'tiUen of Beau-
ford omty, gentleman of tiigh atanding
and influence in the Eastern part of the State,
.Dear Sin Wiave. loWj Noticed, and
with great pleasure'iISnd decided
stand you have i&ki iv Iwhalf of my
friend Mr.- Calhouh; as I sincerely and
conscientiously believe liis election
would prove' beneficial, in ; the highest
degree, to our coinraoti country, llere,
t ,.can assure you,'' his supporters are
multiplying fast, and at the expense of
jii. vianiuiu. Air. ziuauiB is uoi wiin-
out his friends: but thev are comrara
tiveiy le w in mis part oi me cute; .the
number of his friends 'seems to, be sta
tionary,, wntist Mr. valhoun is nsing
rapiuiy, ana the radical cutettaio declin
ins in the same ratio. ' : ' -'-v-:-
I visHwl Newbern lately, and found
a large maiority of the respectable citi
zens decidedly tor our lavonte. t ! r.
.. it is au-importanirtuere ue some
. I II a At a "
system and union as to the measures to
be persued, particularly as regards the
cnoice oi caector?; c ; tajvs
Extract of a letter from Cincinnati, Ohio) to
!;- a genuemaa in wis city,
" I fl niuch interest fn the result of
the approaching election of President;
and front much investigation of the pre
tensions ot the dincrent candidates. J
am decidedly of the opinion, that Mr.
Calhoun from your state possesses in
a more eminent degree, than either of
the other candidates, tlie qualifications
which fit him for the distinguished of
fice of President. ' He has many friends
in this state." Uiartes. mercury.
JfeW'York. The New-York papers
oi luesoay are occupied wun me pro
cecums at lammany nail qn the pre
ccumg evening, vvuen a. general mectin
tl the iiepauhcan :iectnri or the city
and county ol Picwx oik toox pmce,t
receive the rqrt of ' no n'.v v!r
committee. Tke tkku . jti to t?
Uiat can.aitte.. wit. ,t Lut meetir -.
rejected, and a ne ticket resolved i ,
conUinmn die names of pat!cr..a, i f
whue diwiiaa ta vote (jr the re ' j -ratioa
ta tea 'people of their constit j
vl right of thooiing electors, t'.ero
could be no tff. xj,ere ipr .n t,
have keen a Ueerste BtUm; t c i t j
part of tie IUJicals,awe pthcr l. u;
pwe of the pwrs, to carry the H-iiul
ticket, and who, to the amount of 130,
had Uken imwsjiDtt of the room n,l
appointed a Chairman and Secretary
before the asl time of meci'r-.- At
the accustomed, hour, however, .Vjut
3000 citizens hadasiem'jieJ. il i:
then, that "bv an ovu-u'n,;,, - . -.rf
of the people, their voice e3ect. ;. '!
tutdownjho clamordu raving if tin
scant minority, and their determination
was expressed, not to suflVr themselves
to be the dupes of a few managers anj
intrixuers, but to become the iiiana.ra
of tlieirown conrc i. nd ta eTprt
their owfc public ti.iici! -i.
The great triumph l!m achieveJ iri
New-Yoik.isalital blovrto the Il..li.
cal party every where. It eth;!,;t4 t! '
intelligence, as well as- power of t!i
people, in the most magn',:, cent attitude.
Its effects on other states mu.U be da-
cistveand decisively bcncCcial, for al
though the alarm bell has yet been only
sounded in New-York, it has run" the '
anen oi poiuicat matement the fu
nernal peal of the kidicaU every
where- Washington Rep.
COMiiUxNlCATlONH.
.:-- oa'TH star. -
' Gen!lemen, writer in the last Re
gister but one, signing himself " A Citi
zen,' very exulfingly asks, " what prin
ciple of Mf. Jefferson has not Mr. Cal
houn opposed and abandoned.," I fear
lessly answer, not One: for frjm tha vi.
ry first appearauce of thisditingu:ahed
tatesman on the floor of Congress, un
Ul the present time, he has been the uni-, '
form supporter of the Jeffrisonian no!i-
ey, the same consistent and undeviating
republican; and lamsatisfied thatnoono
but a jaundiced eyed liadical would ever
uaVe ventured to make such an unfound
ed charga. They know thatMr.Calhoun.
stands deservedly high in the estimation,
of his coifMry, and by charginj: him
wuu iiavmg -opposea auu abandoned
le Jcflerspn, policy,?, they think to '
Injure his popularity) but such shames
ful attempts will never do; sucli un
principled accusafwrnVre as unworthy
of Jelief as they arir new and unfound
ed. X The Republicans of. the countrv
know too well that the policy of Mr.
Calhoun is in perfect accordance witlt
v 'vdj mi u w . vuiif iisa.
the course he Has uniformly pursued has
been diametrically opposed to evcrv
ouier pnnpipie on wnicu our govern-
ihuhv fciioum auimnisiereu, cxc , z
that so forcibly recommended by Mr.
uerson niuiseu. , . ?
'i r:.: t -i i
Calhoun was a rjember of .the House of
" Vlirn-M PUT, l lltttk llCIt 111 .'
Representatives,; ho advocated a con-"
tinuance of the system of direct and
internal taxes, when it was evident they
were no longer necessary." To this it '
wonld be sufficient to give the flat con
tradiction, tfete 1, like the , " Citizen '
disposed to deal altogether in bare as
sertion; lor it it Dad been evident thit
these taxes were n longer neccstary, '
can any man, -in. his sober senses sup-
waser mat Mr, Calhoun, notwithstand-
ng, would have advocated the continu
ance ot such a systemr and besides, no
proof has been offered by this sapient
writer to Bnew mai tney were no longer
necessary. Mr. Jefferson, he says, re
commended and obtained a repeal of
the system.". -From the ambiguous
phraseology of the sentence; one would
naturally suppose that Mr, Jefferson ami
Mr.- Calhoun were both in Confess at
one and the same time, and that t!i.
differed on the subject of direct taxa
tion! hut aurh ia nut tlm f:rt mr tin T
say that the . '.' Citizen" would wish to
have it so understood, though, one un-
acquainted with the two periods i i
question, would unquestionably so con
strue it.1 tvv ': v ' -
MY; Jefferson opposed the system of
direct and internal taxesimposed bv ltie
aaininistraiion oi jonn Auanis,Decauss
they were continued as the event h?3
shewn, without any earthly necessity.
We had not then been involved in war.
Not so in regard to Mr. Calhoun; for at
a subsequent period of IB years, our
country bad just emerged troni a lon ct
sanguinary connect wun ureal juriuui,
which increased our national debt nearly
100 millions; and, as an honest states
man, it was his duty, as 'long as it was
necessary, to advocate the system of di
rect and internal taxation, to assist in
payingthis enormous debt; but that he,
any more than Mr. Jeffeiiso.v, or any
otlier patriot, ever "advocated suc!i a
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