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The fol lowing article, copied by the New-York Tribune from. the London .Deily News, will show per contrast the influence and results of Freedom.—[Ens. JounN AL. A PAT ON THE BACK FOR BROTHER JONATHAN.—A pleasant and most profit able lessen may be glum - R.(l from some . __. official 1 cts just brought fresh from the We might copy from every page - Of shores of 13rother Jon !than. These facts these instructive reports examples of the ore to be found in the reperts of the great progress which the Americans Cominissimiers to the Exhibaion at New have made itYall the essential arts, which York. They give no encouragement -it is now the duty of patriotism to pro to the vain-glorious conviction that mote ; hue it is not our purpose to-make England has nothing more to do," and a catalogue of their great successes. make it true that the true business of, We must rather point attention to causes. patriotism non--next after the moment • , Both the Giiii — missioners make us sens;.- ary and urgent demands on it for the , ble that the success of the Americans is purposes of war—is to promote the in- ! far less due to the assistance they have teliigence se - the multitude. and increase ; derived from Europe than from freedoin t The Secret Russian Correspon the national skill in all the wealth-cre- ! and• their own native intelligence.—' deuce. . - sting arts. From the special reports of Wherever machinery can be introduced, ! We devote all the space we can spare Mess.rso Whitworth and Wallis, the i eays . Mr. Whitwerth, as a substitute for to-day to the secret correspondence, be truth gleams on us, almost like a rerela- manual labor, ibis universally and tell- ttveen the Czar -and the British eovern -Lion, that the pre-erninerce of our country iinelie resorted to. "The workmen hail went about the partition of Turkey, to is only to be maintained by increasing -with satisfaction all. mechanical im- which the, attention of the world was freedom. The groWing superiority of prereinent," Now this is the reverse j directed by a recent semi-official article the Americans on many po i nts can nei- 'of the disposition of the people of Europas, in the St. Petersburg 'Gazette. The Cher be concealed nor denied. ' They : and it is jusely traced by Mr. Whitwortl - 1 - ' - --wee of that article left the impression; surpass Eeg'and, and therefore far sur- :to the scarcity of hands in America. "It that the British eoVenrment had listened - pees all the %%odd, in the length and in - is," says he. "the condition of the labor . favorably to the proposals about Twice.: the success of their railways. They market, and this eager resort To ma- ! from the Czar, quite inconsistent- with have, according the dincrican Rail i chinery wherever it, can be applied>aJ its present warlike attitude and with re'llS/ Times, 1 7 ." 11 miles of rail: and l' which, under the guidance of superior ! good faith. - . all the rest of the world, including Eng- ' e iticition and intelligence, the rem:aka-I This challenge has brought out the land, has only 1,109. They have gone ble prosperity of the United States is ' whole correspondence, filliug some seven to work with go -d sense. and have i mainly due." A combination of intitra- ;or eight solid columns of the Louden "studied economy and the speedy ccrn - : try, intelligence, and freedom is-effecting 7'imes, and all of which we • have found pletion of the roads." " A sirgle line wonders in America. The resources o f Iso curious and interesting, that we have of rail." saris Mr. Whitworth. " nailed the Country, which are - great, are not resolved to lay it entire before our read down on transvi rse logs, and a trim at : d en i e d ; the influx of immigrants and ' o,s, instead of giving extracts from it, rire intervals, are deemed to be : uril:ieat, the rapid increase of the people cannot : es our contemporaries have -uniformly as a coniunncemeni , and as traffic hi- be doubted, and both will help to improve contented themselves with doing. creases, addi i mal improvements can be 1 and extend the intelligence of all; but : It is ' quite the most satisfactory made." They haze not waste.',, like the g, neral freedom is the great source glirripse into thepenetralia of the Czar's the well educated gentlemen of England, of the eeneral intelligence. Evert/ man E aabinet, the world has ever been .in an immense capital on architectural ra I is free io• use his on-n senses untram- &Iced with. . way ornaments and in Pal-alimentary meled and unimpeded by others. There : -ale. 1,..e .ere; Emperor taking Sir rai;way lineation, and the result is that is apprenticeship _proem, so much Henry Seymour by the button-hole, and railways are succus,fiflly carried iree . prized by certain- trades in Engitond, , telling him e confidentially, that Turkey every part of the land. Tae Ame risen :.• and the more - useful." .511'S Mr. _Wallis, is sick, mortally sick, will die soon, and rails are excellent proper ies. To tlitee .I. t he youth in any industrial pursuit the body will .em,ll, unless some ar railways, a'so. which in eke the commit ~ b ee , ni c e to his emphver. the More profit- raneements - are made at once for the nication with the interior of America a bl e i t i s to him-elf." "The American disposition of it. That England and more easy than commun.( ation with the wee-Idea boy develops rapidly inm the nossia',can take .care of- it, if they will interior or Spain. Europe as at this day skilled artisan, and It lying since mastered' put th eir heads together. Sir Henry indeleed for most of the 'arse sstrepOes oae part of his bnsieess, he is never intimates a doubt whether Turkey is of food winch hays :ay. d the people ceitent until he has mastered elk The so sick as the Emperor thinks, but from hunger. witless activity of mind, the anxiety to writes home about it. Lord John Rus-., The Am! ricans surpass us also in the improve his own department of industry, :sell does not think Turkey so very sick, , length ( f tt.er tel , graphs, and in the us:e the facts -constantly b-•fore him of in- ,and is afraid to make any arrangement , which they make of ;hens. They heasto genious men who haveosoired economic about the body, for fear it will be found says Mr. Whitworth. 15,000 miles.— and mechanical problems to their own , out, and not only aggravate the invalid's 'h ere are eleven ditTrent teleereph profit and elevation, are all stimulative distemper, but make trouble with. the comp:tides in New-Tort:. Quebec and and encouraging, an& it may he said other powers . New-Orleans are connected by the wire, that there is not a working boy of aver- ; Nicholas sticks to It, however, that and a, net work of lines extends to the nee ability, in the New-England States Turkey cannot live, that her dissolution west es far as Missouri, about 50 0 towns at least, who has not an idea of some , would take them by surprise and make and villages being provided with sae mechanical invention or improvement in trouble, unless England and Russia tions. When the contemplated lines manufactures, by which in good time he should come to an understanding. He connecting CelPornia with the Atlantic, hopes to better his condition, or rise to did not want anything in writing. The . and Newfoundland with the ma i n con-e fortune or social distinction." Fur other word of a: gentleman is enough. Sir atinent, are completed, San Francisco ~ and older nations, which dread without Henry was not accustomed to this hit . will be in communication with St. John's, , sheriff , the progress of America, the penal pertinacity. He fought shy, and Newfoundland, distant from Galway but . fearful phenomenon is the rapid develop- wrote honk for instructions, Which five days' passage. It is, therefore, es- rnent of the mind of man there, us well i would- excuse him from the necessity of timated that intelligence may be Coll-: as the increase of ' his nofithers. The debating 'the subject any longer with veyed from the Pacific to Europe, and 100.000,000 human beings who will the• Czar. their conferences having be rice versa. in about six days. In Amer- probably live in the continent of North come more embarrassing than compli; ica „ :he electric telegraph is used by all America before the - close of the present mentary. classes of society as an ordinary method century, promise to be all intelligent I A letter was finally sent him, which of transmitting intelligence." " Corn- men, foil of activity and knowledge of left the question, as far as England was mercinl men use the electric telegraph the material world, anxious to improve, i concerned, where it stood at the begin- I in their transactions to a very great and powerful in the compound ratio of I ning of the 'correspondence, but -with', extent." About two column's of mater their intelligence and their numbers, l nhich the Czar affected to be satisfied. a d a y is transmitted by telegraph to the Our census commissioners remark," that- After a careful perusal of the correspond- New-York papers.' So under t;he quid- , one of the moral eflects of the increase I ence, we are satisfied that the.imputa acme of good sense, the 15,000 miles ofl of the 'people is the increase of their tions of the St. Petersburg journal were telegraph • are not an unprofitable corn- ! mental activity." And what, then, may unfounded, and that no complicity Ise mercial speculation. The 'Americans, I i not the Americans, now skillful, become I tween the - 'Czar and the English Cabi who, as Mr. Burke said, are o still in the ebefore the close of the Century ? ' net with regard to Turkey is establiShed. gristle," are -almost equal to us, who I - The prospect is, however, encouraging It does, however, establish a foregone have been ages'" in the bone," in the I for us, not appalling. , We must itnitme conclusion on the part of the Czar, tonnage of their merchant shipping. 1 t the Any-ricans, and set our people free taken . in connection with subsequent while they completely equal, if they do I from all kinds of unwise restrictions. events, to hasten that dissolution of the 'n . ca surpass, us in constructing and man- I Although the general report ascribes the'l Tuakish Empire for Which he• Was so' aging ships. In ocean steam navigation ; ! quick intelligence, the ingenious, - indas- anxious to be prepared. • they are our only competitors, and even ' trious, energetic painstaking of the pro- Only two daps before the first of these . in that they are riot b-hind us. I ducina class, s, to, that early education conversations with the. Eniperor,•Sti • • The application of laborsaving ma- which ° is alike afforded to al!, and al- Hamilton Seymour reported to his gov chinery to working wood is very exten- ; though Mr. Wallis very properly speaks- eminent, that he had reason to believe sire in America. An abundance of th e [in its'praise at every page of his report— i that one hundred and fOrty-four thou - sand. material and a ocerrity of hands have I and we have. riot the slightest intention men were ordered to march to the fronts - , led to inventions which- people in End- I ; to disparage early and genera) education, I ier:of - the Danubian principalities; arid land/ are beginning to import. The ; particularly in "common things t' . ' but, duriog - the whole course of these nego-: sawmills are wonderful ; self-acting bia- j on the contrary, would.extend it to every' tiatioris - the mission of Prince lienchi chinery makes doors, and window frames. i child in the kingdom-yet it is' con- WI was' in preparation; or in progress: and cases. .Builders,are supplied with 1 clusively . shown by- one remark of Mr. On the 20th of February, when , the Erich . articles cheaper than they cant Whitworth's that Education, however . - Czar unbosonaed himself mo s t fally :to make them. Portable sawing machiues, early and general, is not,alone suffiCienn Sir Henry, and insisted that "the sick driven by horse power, are used for to give and secure the 'iliperioritY 'of man was dying," Prince MenChikoff DEVOTED TO THE . PRINCIPLES OV.DEMODRADY, AND THE DIS.SENINATION OF.MORALITY LITERATURE, AND NEWS sawing up lob's of wood for fuel. Planing machines. are in comn.on use. "The character given to one branch of manu facture has gradually extended to others. Applied to stone-dressing one man is able to perform as much work as twenty masons by hand." In the United States one spinner -by machinery does more than 3,000 times the work of a spinner in Hindostan. Lasts are .made by ma chinery ; so are plows. Every man in America being perfectly free to keep his wagon, the use of wagons is almost universal. What an advance for'F.rigland if every man could keep his wagon. "The manufacture of wag ons supports a great number of wheel wrights and artisans of that class, who, from the nature of their employment, attain great skill and aptitude, enabling them to turn their hands to almost every variety of work, and rendering, them a most useful and important class." So to have wagons perfectly untaxed raises up, as among us the free cotton Lade has raised up, important and intelligent classes of workmen. • COUDEABPORT, Ps 4 1 ittNir Intellect,ual development which is ob i Served in America. " jf,". he says, " se cting a proof from among the European states, the condition of Prussia be con sidered, it will be found that the people of that country have not made that progress which, from the great attention paid to the education of all classes, might have been anticipated." Ifjparly and general education were even the chief means of development of people with respect to the material world, which is What the Americans possess, and what we all require, how comes it that the best educated classes in France, and Germany, and England, are not the great improvers of the mechanic arts, and of society at large? Here and there a Worcester, - a Stanhope, a Cavendish, or I Howard, start up from among the aristocracy ,as great inventers or great discoverers is science, but the bulk of our impro7ments have been made by hard-handed and very imperfectly edu cated men. Let us not substitute edu ' cation for freedom, and make the lattei contingent on the former, but for England to maintain her industrial rank in com petition with American'fleedom must be bad, whether educatiOn be had or not. We think the General Cornmissioners much to blame for ascribing all the ad , vantages of America to education, and saying not one word for freedom. For the freedom of the United States is the great basis of her present material' pros"- , perity. was actually on his way to ConStanti-1 nople to initiate the mischief which has since matured. It was undoubtedly .the policy of the the Senator 'rom Illinois?" Czar.4n pursuing England so -.pertina— ciousFy- for somesort of an•Angreement about what Mr. Mantalini would have termed "the demned body," . to place England in a po,itibn which Would pre vent her becoming an ally of •France in . 'opposing whatevermight 'oocur in Tur key. With England neutral, the,Cznr expected to undermine and ruin Turkey without an open war. His failure to effect this understanding, compelled him 'to piirsue the, course he has finally chosen. • ' We -shalixive the remainder of this correspondfmce to-Morrow.—.N.• Y. Eve ning Past. The Clergy and. Mr. Dough's, The New York Recorder, one of the ablest religious papers in the, Union, has a word in behalf of the clergy as sailed by : Mr Douglas: , "It is often said of clergymen. as a class, that they are unacquainted with the ways of the world, and .are sadly apt to blunder when they travel out of their- strictly professional sphere. Un doubtedly there is a foundation for this , criticism, as there is for the same crit icism with reference to any other class of men ; but the amusement 011ie thing is, that the wise' people, who are Most fond. of descanting upon the :worldly . greenness of the qiergy, are often quite as limited in their own knowledge of matters not belonging to their own line. We venture to intimate to the Senator from Illinois, that he knowS less of the cler ,, y of the country than they know of him, and that the clergy understand good deal more of secular aMi political afr:' T s than he does of those -of . religion and theoloLly. Inde..d, we venture to say. furth. , r,,tl:at if - Mr. Douglas had made more tr,-crivot choice of the clergy as hiscompaidons, be would have been a tnari of a g,:od d ni mono gAieral intel ligence than he can with any reason pretend to, and might have :derived other advantages from the companion ship, which it is not necessary.for us to suf*gest. As a matter of fact. , Mr. Douglas shows himself utterly and inex cusablv ignorant of the character-of . the New England clergy. As a 'class, their superiors as to general intellio-ence are not to be found in the. f...7nited States, or in the world. They are men of learn ing.. . The colleges of New England were founded hy almost uni ..-eTativ,they have been the teachers of the colleges. 0f . "23,532 graduates 'of New England colleg es, according, to ta bles ut this moment before us,: 6';502, or more than- one fourth, have entered the ministry, and there is not a school dis trict from Bye to Madawaska which has not felt their influence in raising the tone of general intelligence and culture. It • has been, mortover, an incident of New, ; England history, that the doctrines', which have prevailed in- regard to the ministry—that they are not a caste, but the companions and equals °their lay brethren, and • distinguished only as ; caned to peculiar duties—have always 'brought them into the closest relations with the public in all matters of social ; interest. They have mingled with their fellow - - . cititeris freely in the consid eration , of public questions, anti not a year passes in which they do pot hold office, 'more or less, as magistrates and lerTislatt4rs. and they are often memberi orrodoress, Judges, .and Governors. "It is of such men, to the - number of more than three thousand, that Mr. Douglas makes the sweeping statements ' which we have'quoted- 7 that not one of them knows the history of the Missouri Comprotnise—that not one of them even knows the history of the Colm- . promises of 1850—and that not one of 'them has taught the obligation : of the Fugitive Slave Law of that year, or of national engagements in,g,eneral: Why, there are nurnes on that protest, by scores, of men -Who were high in sta tion, men of learninf,i, general intelli gence, and influence..before.the Senator from Missouri was born—who were par ticipaiors in the agitations of IS‘L'O, and know its details as they know their al= phabets. There are scores, too, who were the stanch friends of the Com promises of ISSO, some - who preached in favor of them, and who proclaimed in Boston ,itself the obligations of the offensive law in. question, and congratu lated the country that it was new to have 'a Sabbath On.the subject or Slavery'— 'the very Sabbath which the Senator fitim Illinois has broken; outraged at he affects to feel at being charged With the profanation. • It was certainly a - Wanton venture when the comparatively, youth ful .Sentitor impugned the injelligence of such menas.Francis Wayland, Lyman Beecher, 'Nathaniel 'Taylor., Alexander H. Vinton, and_ a host - of others of sinai-, lar standing atnong the distinguished persoriages,ofour time. Are they, less citizens-because 'they are clergymen; acd because they aulerrinly, believe the, judgments of God are provoked by' a violation of plighted faith and an act of political imniorahty, are they to be de nounced as fanatics and dunces by— Freedom;—Slavers. Politicians of easy virtue have long been telling us that American Slavery was fast dying out, yielding, like April snow-driftS under the sun, to the genial influenceS of Democracy - and Christian ity. What a melancholy commentary it is upon this_ prediction that we are brou,ght,iit last to dispute the entrance of Slav:•ry into the free territories of the : North ; 'that we who have talked so' bravely about confining it to present :limits, are' ourselves on the point of -being "'cabined, cribbed, confined" 'within two narrow strips of the conti• .neat on the borders of the great lakes and Pacific Ocean ! now came free, dom-thus brought to its last gasp? Who : organ. • - have been guilty of debauching the na- i Va hold Gen. Pierce, then, to the - :tional virtue, so far as to permit this responsibility of this explosion between_ :Nebraska project to be even debatable? I Cutting and Breckenridge—,a rupture ; What . vile arts have been used to give : which might have ended in the violent ,plausibility -to the sophistries, under and bloody death of one or both elthe which the palpable iniquity of this • parties, but for the active interposition, great fraud has thinly veiled ? The remonstrances ana advises of-men of all ,process has indeed not been a rapid one. : Mrties and bith houses: Such arc the The .decdy of virtue in an indi%tidual is desperate straits to which this impotent • but graduali the decadence of nations is . and Tylnrized administration is driven. a still sloiver operation. The gains of - E'ected to power upon the plitform of slave-breeding and slave-selling have the • compromise of IS:MX the Cabinet built up a complicated commercial inter- authoritatively and unblushingly repu 'est that has beset the-lobbies of legisla- diates the compromise policy. Pledged 'tures and the halls -of courts with its I at _Baltimore to, resist any and every hundred arms loaded with bribes, to •ittempt to revive the agitation of the • pervert judgment and withhold justice. slavery question, but pushed to the last Popular preachers have perverted , the resort by the disclosure of his free soil records of old inspiration to defend vil- principles and antecedents, we see Gen. lainies abhorren - t to the natural religion l'i-rce, in his desperation to reclaim :of ihAr consciences. Unprincipled pol• the confidence of the South, casting into iticians td whose epprehension the self Congress the repeal of Ere Missouri -evident truths of the Declaration of In- Compromise as an administration meas dePendenc'e are self evident lies; men ure, and thus lighting up such a flame who have no real faith in democracy,- of free soil and abolition excitement as guihy of incivi.sla toward the Republic, the country has never . before expo, front the ; stump, the newspaper press sensed. . With: upwards c majority in the House upon 'of seventy 'a • nd the !leers of Congress, and what- d `:necrotic ever places of influence they could in Oils test issue of Nebraska n we find the tripe themselves into, have denounced administration powerless to persuade, a,.' treasonable and dangerous all the lip- • resorting to the rash expedient of coer cion, and driving two political and per e'earand democratic opinions of the age. Timid nen have given ground to all i sonal Iriends to the wretched resolve of this press'ure. Many looked up to as a mutual assassination.—Clev. Legder"- - , leaders to head the resistance against' the ',general demoralisation, have proved, eoneletenty. . ~ , not. intellectually, but morally incapable CFr 3 n l the '°Leirel Wreath," read at the of making the ellen. •••• , c.'fraderspnrt Academy.] --' Besides. when\ was ever a wicked What is' it ? We often hear it called policy pi-bre:ea that had not some plau- a jewel; and yet there are a few who sible phrase, some dap-trap by-word to seem to think it a very :valuable one—: •gtoze it over ? No doubt he spake well i very few who even think it worth the' who said that he could easier govern n Wearing. The modest young lady, who pebple by making th'eir songs than their always trembled, and even shed tears - , talks ; but he who contrives the cant ' every other Wednesday afternoon, be phiases that form the staple of Congres cause she was ''so bashful and so easily embarrassed she could not bear to stand Eiopal and caucus speeches can outstrip in : influeoce the maker of songs and up and read her own composition when si many:folks were looking at her," did laWs together. Winn a measure of lee islation, by. i's--gross violation of all nut know that she was trampling this clierishedpopu far ideas of ri g ht, arrests precious pearl under her' feet when she .opposition, sonic dreary political - pedant consented to stand in the center of a is' set to work to reproduce the same' parlor and let every man in a large corn project in'a mystification of Words, plau- - parry kiss her as a " judgment" for not Bible enough to make the devil himelf pitying her part well in a 'game of believe that he has blundered haw an " Simon says t Thumbs up.' " • • ace. of unpremeditated benevolenre.— j. The- young man who was so,mooh " Re-annexation of Texas" was ' , tile ' embarrassed whenever he: attempted to phrase under which the larceny of that province iwas acheived. .To Slavery was given the freedom of the territories , acquired from' Mexico, and a free bunt in, - all the nirthern States for. fugitives,' • under the cant of "non-intervention." The, popUlar discussion of these meas tires was a dangerous agitation" of the Slavery question. The abrogation -of the, Missouri Compromise, too, has hap pily achi-',.ved for itself a phrase more-, than usually captivating and eupho nious. It is, (could any one have Messed it beforehand I) " the sovereign ty of. the people"—save the mark ! The Emperor Nicholas is very happy , in this style of speech ; so is Napoleon ; so was his uncle. Could any' one read, the series of manifestoes that have pre pared and accompanied this Turkish war, without believing that piety, patri otism, philanthropy and meekness, and ' most other human virtues had become so much monopolized by one man, as to • leave all the rest hardly enough to save themselves withal ?- In our country, Gen. Cass seems to have been the au thor of the greater part of the phrases • before mentioned. - His mimd has long dwelt in a limbo of intellectual fog, wherein words and things - interchange identities.. Let those who fancy such investigations dissect these shams and expose their deception. Honest minds will content themselves with Mr. Ben ton's Eanswer: "It is a lie, Sir." If a man has a right to pervert the functions of his own intellect, he has no right to insult our instinctive perceptions of trutir.—N. Tribunes Putting Him through the Milt. The New York Herald, a potential agent in ,the election of Gen. PIERCE, cbdrges that he was the invisible agen cy which impelled Mr. BREckesnionc, of Kentucky, to undertake the delicate and dangerous task of questioning the honesty of Nit.. Ct. - Trim., in the House NUMBER 49. of Representatives, in the parliamentary course which be had thought fit to pur sue upon the Nebraska bill.. It - claims that without a powerful in fl uence be hind the scenes BRECKENRIME . would never have undertaken the presumptu ous task of lecturing such a man as Cur- TING. The chivalrous Kentuckian Was in the meshes of the administration—he was doing its work ; and had he suc ceeeded in lashing the refractory New Yorker into submisSion and obedience, it would all have been well enougla. His failure - was a Cabinet failure, Presidential failure, - under the whip and ,pur of the President's agent,authorized, or believing himself to be authorized, to do the work, whence the importance of the question, the folly of Mr. Brecken,- ridge, and the bitter chagrin of the whole White : liouse party and their speak before a small debating society that he trembled, stammered, and said things he did not mean, and was soilif tiVnt that he could not possibly "read a composition in school, and yet unblush ingly joined in playing " .Snap and catch 'em," probably never realized how great v'o'ence the jewel Consistency suffered, at his hands. A number of girls, very young, lively,. and thoughtless., once chanced to,assem- ble to spend an afternoon together. It was reported soon after, that these girls had a mimic prayer•meeting each of them personating some one who usually took part in the exetcises at real prayer meetings. Of cburse this story, though proved to be a great exaggeration, made quite a stir. Ministers preached• about it —gossips 'discussed it—school girls, made it the subject of their compositions.. Pious parents, kept a stricter watch over - th-ir little daughters ; and many a heart felt prayer was offered for the conversion of t to irreverent children who had dared !Italie a mockery of prayer. Everybody was shocked, which would have all been . all right and proper had there beet truth enough in the,tale to warrant such ex-- - cit,ment. ;• But previous to that event, as well this, In ,ck marriages have frequently occurred between men-and women quite old enough to know • better ; and when", have they raised any excitement When even elicited rebuke ? Professors , of religion smile complacently on this kind of mockery, and some even join in it. Is this Consistency ? Is a coenript le s sacred than a petition Is it leaf impious, less shocking, to make a mock of marriage than of . prayer ? not,, why should Christians encourage - one,' and be borrified at the other 0 consistrncyl consistency !* nest to Humility the brightest jewel- in the' Christian's crown. may all men seek.- ; thee, and mayest thou be found of all.
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