T.. S. CHASE, --- VOL. Busialss Gard 3. W..Zsox, . Kttarntg at 'fi.ato, 4 9Rpoicraport, Pn., will regularly attend the ? Courts In . Pauer county. .44THUR G, ciLIYISTED, •fittarafg Sieautto dor at 'Rata, coaderapoirt, atteud *gull Waineas eutruiteu to eurcovith.prulupiness and i psr„Clay. ' . • office—in tho.Temporanca Bluck, up stairs, 41Liu-street. - . PE!:I"SpN ttorneg at Bab], COUDERSPORT; PA. !NEMO .coiner of West arid Third street. L. P. WILLISTON, Etttarittg at 'Rata, waitssarie, •riota- C0.,a., will attend the Courts to Potter and 11 . 11(eap Cpuuder. A.. P. CONE, tjorne2 at ?La ID, - INollaburutigp;Trpga atteud tlse courts of !'utter cuunty. )titto.:4lB4t. 4 70)3N S. MANN , attorney, Se:Counselor at VAIL 'Coudersport, Va., will attend the. several Vutirts to !'utter sod Arlietto cuunties. All business entrustcli in Ws carp, will receive L prewpt Office tot Alain-street, opposite the Contt Aeuso, C!„?p,.lerspert,:rn. .COUDERSVORT HOTEL Olaanntire Pito'prti ti:To It. Corner of Main and Secor.ti streets, Con dirtport, Potter Cu:,' Pa. - W. E. KING, urbenor, 73raftsman, • -4C.41113C.9111CCU ? 1.1" Kenn Cu., Pa., -• a• attetid to business for non•rei . .dent laud pokier), ypou readetwbie te'ruis. .ll:eeerences Aden if required. • - P. S. Maps of any part of the County made to order. ' " - - J. OLMSTED, 561tE•V i lkiV #P - ma tt, At dieadce of J. S. Mann, Coudersport, 'a 3.4R4.11-1 YOUNG, Wiatcl)--qrtakrr anVWrier. Alf work warranted. A stock of Watchos And Jeweiry on'b.oid 'Om: for sale. Calf at ale . ature or Smith & JOac, Conderst.art,; Pa: 'BENJAMIN RENN ELS, XL.ACKSJCITII. Allwor(iialiub, 'dime to order and wiib doiputcfi. 'On West street, below Th.rd oudersport; NIITII JONES. Dealers in Dirdootls, Grlicerids, Stationc Ay. Drugs & Medicines, Paints,' Oils, Fancy articies, &c. Main •Szreet, Coudersport l'a. JONES, MANN. & JONES. t General Grocery. and Provision Doaiers—*- Also in Dry Goods, Hardware, .I.lpot,v and hoes, and whaie'ver nicn•want to buy. Main Street, Coudersport. Po.' D. E. OLMSTED Dialer in Dry Goods, Reidy-mule Cloth;nfi, Coitclirsport, .I'a. J. W. SMITIL - . Dealer in St9vps, and manufacture of Tin ,Cdpp . ei,ind-Stieet-Iron NVare. Main street, :Caudal:sport, l'a. • w. iMANN, ppile ! hrliooks & Stationery, Music, and lifsgaFinos. upposi:e N. W. corner pfib, square, Coudersport, Pa. AMOS FRENCH, de.: Surgeon. East si4e 170411 414! ' •' DAVIP 13; BROWN, Foun'ilryrugu'and Dealer in Ploughs. prr Alnifiiiii,'Couciersport Pa., JAPKBON & SCIJOOMAKER, Denleis in Dry Goods, Grocerins, Crock-ry, rteßdy-made Clintring. Main street, Cou- Fa: - ALLppriVNY HOUSE, Ou the IVe Ils rigs ld , sevth miles 'Nottk. Cotylersport. It. J. CHENEY lien:Lai Tel*, • and Dealer in Ready mube North of the public squiire, paildefipuic, Pa. 4f!aa.GC: l 9D. SE.I4N (ZUNSAIITH,Cistniers" po . rbPa. Fire ATirts !Latnatillfacttulad and repaired at his stm o oip tibdit'atnicB: •• • -41 0 rah: 3, 1848: J, W. EARD;qq; .ruhkottable Tailor. All work crqruated p:3 ‘ dons with in'al.nesi, abioTort, sW•iditrability. - • Skop .ovor Liwia allaon's sem - • • • - •• • ; • • - : 0 - " • , THE PEOPLE'S -JOURNAL PUBLISHED EVERY TFIORSDAY MORNING. Terms—in Akslvaitce . One copy per annum, • • $1.25 Village subscribers, . 1.50 TERNS OF ADVERTISING. square, pfl2 lines or less, 1 insertion, , $0,50 f , 4, 44 " 3 insertions, 1,50 " every subsequent insertion, 25 Rule antlGgUre vv:e . t.k,.per . sq., 3 iusertiapa, 3,00 Every subsequent insertion, 50 1 column, one year, .25,00 if 41 it • 4.00 14 41 41 11.0 S I..colurpn, six months, . * 15,00 if ff 1. 9.00 Administrators' or Executors' Notices, 2,00 Sheriff's Sales, per tract s . _ Marriage notices 1.00 Professionl Cards not exceeding eight lines rtseried f0r . 55,00 Pei annum. • - tar All letters on business, to secure ai entiop, should be addressed (post paid) to the Publisher. Rally friends by rut:mosr led— guoviienot our fathers How they scorned to bow the head To shame and Shivery 1. - Raise the cry ye freemmn brave, That ye will pet be a slwe . ; Lei scars and stripes o'er Kansas wave, That they, toa, in my be free ! 'Twasfor that our.fathers fought • - Our liberty with blood they Vought; Yet all this they counted uptight, . Th it they might yet be free. • Aid our cause ye just and rod, Behold you not our SUUSER'S blood 7. Wilt thou pot aid us, 0, just God! To wipe this s:aiu away ! • t: • On our noble chieftain bear,— Place him in the ir'reitient's chair, that Fkaud and crime no more shall dare To hold its revel there! Then let the brave path-finder bo The ruler of this Republic free; And let old Ilunkerispisee • 'Tis destined for the grave! All hall, ye gallant freemen true, United heart and hand, Nyho, in the non!e catise of right, • Have fearlesiy9vve'd Unfurl your banner to the breeze, And wave it o'er the sea, And herald Froc soil, free men, Fretnont and victory," Oh, by the blood your fathers spilt, Fair Freedom's pearl to gain, By that high princip:e within Tint spuins.Oppression's chain. • Arise! yetir comi.ry bids you rise, Her faithful champions be, And herald wide, " Free soil, free men, Fremont and 'victory " Be strong—for oh! the clay is ucar, The bright and eoriotas day, When Triad' and Jusdce shall prevail / Where Error holds its sway. i - f Then mead your banner to the breeze, And wave it o'er the sea, And herald witie, " Free soil, free men, Fremont and victory." As the Savory propagamlists"claim • at present to be par-excellende• the party of "Law and Order" we propose to examine their sitieerity. When some eighteen years since the liberty party commenced agitating the, Slavery question these devoted friends of the Union—,of Law and ()tiler, vf ere the advocates of mob*law. Abolition Lectqres and assemblies tyere broken l i pp—buildings devoted to their par pinies burned down--presses destroy • d-.-cditors tarred and feathered rtnd sometimes* murdered in blood. But: it was found that like the . malls which eighteen hundred years ago supposed they could-step* the *spread of.ChriStianitY instead • of suppressing the snovertent increasedonly- its can •yPkis• Then at once they were in fay vor of law, in favor of all , hUman laws being,implicilly obeyed eyed 'though they alviild contrary XOthe lavis'of 4,,4 and nature: Laws like the fugi-. tiye slave law were then !the' ordar•of • the day. • In Nuw is any one. Verdant euhugh to believe these than care any thiug about law any further than it; auswere their purpose s that of +4lu - hailing' the•frietids DEVOTED TO THE PRINCIPLES OF. DEMOCRACY, AND THE DISSE3IINATION OF MORALITY, LITERATURE, AND NEWS spimpaign ,Sotgo. [For A SONG FOR FREEDOM. BY a FRIEND IN HEBRON FREMONT VICTORY BY 111S+ F. J. CROSBY Ai . a—Auld Lang Syna For the diurnal LAW PSI) PRDEB. COUDERSPORT. POTTER COUNTY, PA., AUG. 21, 1856. of Freedom." Jt.-is an old game .and not likely to deceive anyone who dues .opt Nish to,be . deceived. Forthe bene fit. of those who expect to succeed iu .their nefat io.us plans of glibduing free-. dram, we refer them to a .case similar, to theirs and ask .them to mark its 'sequel. We find. it in anancient book which perhaps some of them have read. When,the Empire of the.4.ledes and, Persians was.in the heighth of its pow er .a man was found by the name of Daniel . in whom was the "spirit of truth" and because of this he was.pre ferred above the other officers of the kingdom by the king, who thought to set him over the whole realm. This at once stirred up the old fogies, who thought, of course, that all the honors and emoluments of office belonged of right to them. They succeeded in getting a law passed which from the character of the man they knew ho would not obey. What his conscience told him to be right--,that he would do, though he were castitito the den of lions, " IHe could suffer • bu: would not obey." Similar to this, .is , the fugitive slave law, requiring men to adulate,the golden rule. To do unto others as ye would that (Altars should do unto you. For who, when robbed- of all that Man hold dear--,of his own earnings --of his wife —of his children andof his own man hood.Tforr pa crime whatever—when escaping to a land of Liberty, would wish to be returned to eternal bondage. But mark the sequel, Daniel was cast into the den of lions, was saved by .a miracle, the Alruighty himself setting 141 seal of His approbation to the eter nal laws of right. and justice_ as con scieucedictates,and His disapprobation to all_ human laws which come flint with them. Those who were in strumental in getting the law enacted ‘verethen subjected to the same or deal, and were crushed to the earth and ground to powder. Similar to this will be the fate of these who are now striving with all the powers of which ,they are capable' to extend Slavery and the laws which are necessary to its existence over the Free "lerrit?ry and the Freemen of the north. Frank Pierce has already had a tench 9f the lion's paAy of piablip opinion, and the signs of the times* indicate that some of his frjends.will comein for a -share soon. HONEEL [Fritn) the 4fdlin . plicl(r . a.) Enquirer. I The tletztect els .of the South in the. present canvass cannot, rely on the old grounds of defence and excuse for slavery ; for they seek not merely to, re lain it where it is, but to extend it into regions where it is unknown. Much less can they rely on the mere constitutional guarantees of slavery, fdr such reliance • - is pregnant with the admission that slavery is wrong', and but for the con stitution, should he abolished. This constitutional argument for slavery, standing alone, fully juStifies the aholi licMists: They are Clearly right if be 'morally wrong, for to get lid of it under the constitution, or by amendik; the constitution, is confess- • &fly. impracticable. _ In truth, tEe constitution cannot help Slavety, Wit be a violation of the laws of god and of morality. In that case,.the constitutiun'should be chang ed, qr the free states shquld secede, rather than continue to guarantee what they consider inthaeral and profane. . The constitution cannot help slavery for -another reason, That institution, extending thiough fifteen states, and interramitied vitith - the interess, the feelings; .and the very existence of many. millitins of men, is-much strong er than the cunstitation. It. would lie tar easier to change or violate the con : - stitution, then to abolish slavery. lie side's, slavery is older than 'the consti tUtion,"eXisted before it, anditidepen ently of it, Vire derive no tight to Our slaves from it, and weaken oqr cause byscenting to rely on it: " Nur will it'ayail ns aught . te.ahow that the'negro is most happy and best situated. in:o e. condition of slavery. If we stop there, •we weaken . oqr cause by the very argument . intended to ad- . yanCe ; for we propo.se tq introduce intq new territory' human bein44! 'whom we assert fo.be anjitfor liberty, self-gov ernment, and equal association with other amen. lye inuat ko a step farther. .W9,Taust show that African. slivery is, a inora . l,rdigiqus r .nocigta!, and ptoba,. hlyr, in the general, a necessary institu THE TRUE 14.317 H tion of society. This is the argument that will enable Eouthern democrats to maintain the alectrines of state equality and slavery extension. For 'if Slavery be not a legitimate, stseful,v2oral, and expedient institution, we cannot, without reproof of conscience and the blush of shame, seek to extend it, or assert- our equality with' those States having no suck institution. • Northern Democrats need not g o thus far. They *do not seek. to extend Slave ry, , but only agree to its extension, as a matter of right on our part. They may prefer their own social systeM to ours. It is best that they should. Ourfriends are conse.rvatives,at home, and conser vatives of the Union-,-conservative of religion, of marriage, of property, of state institutions, tuid of federal institu tiOns. But whilst they may prefer their own social system,. theiwill have to. admit in this canvass that ours is also rightful and legitimate, and sp.nc tinned alike by the opinions and usages of mankind and by the authority and express injunctions of Scripture. They cannot consistently maintain that slave ry is immoral, inexpedient and profane, and yet continue to submit to its exten sion. We know that we utter..bold truths. But the time has. now nrrivei When their utterance can be no longer poet poned. The true issue should stand out so boldly and clearly that none /Ivey mistake it.. SL A.V22Y AM N 3 Pdd 3J3iI.:S-BUFFIAN3 A illethodiet Preacher T i zried and Feathered [Froryi tha Biugharniiton Daily 4.:lpabli g a n , Jit:y Mr. Stuart: Will yoa.have the Mad ness to publish the following letter, re ceived by me from Isaac K. Fay, late ly of Itochester, 4aklre‘v c.maty, Mr. Fay was a resident and owned property in . that pia.c . ce, but he level freedom too noel: for his owo safety, and left the state to resii,la where lie conlEl freely utter his aentinpats. Hi s jotter shows the state of suciety where slavery is permitted to exist-,shall it be extended over our free territories 3 Yours truly. W.d. WHITNEY: ):rate, 111., July 7, 13.5.0 Whitaq E:sq . : Dear have jest arrived ai this pl tee, and . I take the first oppor tunity to fulfill my promise to give - you some account of certain transactions which took plaile at It )chester, An drew county, Mo., and mentioned by me while we were on the boat togeth er, but which yim know we could net then' safely talk about. Oli the last day of May certain citizens of Roch ester and vicinity held a pro-slavery meeting and 'adopted resolutions, which were signed by nineteen of the roost influential and wealthy citizens. Qne of those resolutions referred to two brothers by the name 'of:Jones, who had returned from Kansas, and were said to have.had something to do with the free-soil .legislature of that territory. This tesoietion required of then to leave Andrew centrty with in ten days, or they would he . driven out by force er killed. Immediately after the foe sellers [for there are two 'parties in the.court v] held a meeting., and passed a reSc lutioe that no man should be compell ed to leave the place unless by pro cess of law. Oti the 10th of June, he ing the last of the ten days given to ,the Jones brothers to leave the county' pro-slavery men to the number of one hundred and arty assembled at Ruch-. ester; but, as the brothers had left the ; .day before, the crowd coeld only give yent to their feelings in oaths against the free Boilers and their proctiediugs, and in threats of killing them and burn ing - their property. about this time a slave owned by a farmerneat Roches, ter had committed some .offence, and was sentenced by his master to repo:five a thousand lashes. After the inflictieu of the punishment he ran away, was pursued and-brought back. Tile slave told his Master (as: the master alleged) that one Salm% a; northern Methodist minister, had ado vised him to rtin away, and where to go. Now; this Mr. Sillens_ had before. been accused in the' cialitan .papet.of. aiding slaves to ehtein their freedom,: but there had been no proof of it. • The pro-slavery m . en immecitately held anr. other meeting to consider the matter ; and passed a . resolutton . that Sillens should not preach again inll t ochester. Ile preached regnlarly.otle Sethrtlq . and Sunday in each month. June 14th . and 15th. - were the days on which Mr. Sillens was to preach in Rochester,: and he was in town on. Friday,: the. day before. some of the . hest citizens advised him. not to try to . presch..en those days, as,, imam: the. Cii•cumstan, ces, he could done good; and_ might endanger hid•oiyn• life and Cho; lives of others. Finally, ht• consented to leave, town, and stayed over night with a Mr. llaad, ablaut four miles out. This Mr. Holland was a class-leader in the Northern Methodist Caurch of I Rochester,,an old scan,-atul respected by.all.whokneyv him. He told SiHens that if he would return to town he would accompany him, and he thought he could influence the pro-shivery men not to commit any injury or disturb his preaching, *So -they returned. : on Saturday morning. and, on arriving, went into the store of a Air. ,Stroc.k. While there, orne of the mib entered, and were forcing . Siam's - out of the' store, when Mr. Holland inide . alt ef 'fort to reason with them on the pro priety of permitting Salons to preach-. He had scarcely conamencild speakiiia, when one of the mob shot him through the neck, arid 'he died immediately. They then took Sillens, tarred his head, placed him an his horse, and tOld.hina never to come hack..there to preach again. 1 heard threats. from the mob that they 'Would kill hire it' he did not leave the State oretop preachrug. Sil lens says he has done nothing to mer it such treatment, and tha; ho will preach.there as long as his life is spar-: ed. I know bhp. );Le is ayOulig man, a scholar and a Christian. 'N.) o n e Was arrested, although it is known win) shot kir. Holland. • June hith, 4apie'd circus showed in Rochester. mortung were thank and some driukiiis, and many threats were uttered against the free-sellers.' 4 man by the name of McCormick, while. partly drunk, said that he would kill a N.1.r.0.01we11, (free seller) who owned a flouring mill tathe place, and started for the mill, saying that. some one Mast be killed; but just' as he started his pistol \vont off, and the ball passed through his leg. In the afternoon of the same day, Mr. Hardesty, (free-soiler,) while walking in the street was attacke I by'a pro slavery man named Siren's, with a cane. Hardesty, in sell-defence, shot Simons, and immediately delivered himself up to the sheriff, saying that ho committed the get self,detenco.. The mob gathered about, exclaiming,' l'fiang him! shoot him! ! kill him! ! !" 45;c., and declared that they would hang any man who would do the like. The sheriff maanagad to pfotect with the aid of others.. Simons ,lived .about a week. Har desty had bis examination in a few -days,- and :was sent to the Savanimb jail. • The'free-soilers said that fai:uess' was not shown' .and the pro-slavery men said there was. BUt you can see what - a - distinction is made, whether a' free-soiler or pro-slavery man is killed. in Rochester, the o pro-slavery and anti slavery' parties arc about equal, I was an eye witness of part of the facts here stated, and the rest was told to we by eye-witnesses whom I know. You can see what is getting- to be the. con (idiot) of i soeiety• whore slavery exists. ' It is growing worse, -sand I have left, unwilling to live in such a State* ill, mob hold the power, and there is no' safety, to life or property. am, truly, your friend, . IsA.se K. Fay.. laatovrtox-,..11 1 9- regret much that our farmers do not appreciate the vat: 'teufineigatinJ their Few man bp this county have ever given thi&-sitb ject a moment's theapt., or if they have, their thoughts have nut shown themselves either in works or words. The present has been a favorable Sea soafor trying the experiment: The majority of the larmers of this county are so situated, that with au outlay o ut 60M :ten to Ofty"dellars, a large por tion of the land might be watered, es pecially the meadow lands.' The tie of irrigation cannot be fully known 141.411 tried. gym) : tu.wet seasons it is beneficial. We are told by nr..4. T. 41'drich;' tire only Mau - that We know of in this county 'who his 'atteMpted the plan of irrigating lands, that his meadow lands .a wet season, produce far better since he is able to supply them in part daring a short dry spell, with water. In many parts of the county large springs, 'which - are almoliant.caq,easily be.. made. to_ilow. largo gOrtious of ground, when- now they only fIOW through some ravine. or plly,'doinguo gbodlo'anything. - ' Aft the streams can 'easily he made-to run, a part..of the mater least, ort to the. highs; P9, 11 19 1 1§ - of from at pipasura: Farmers will pill give`EtiissubjecttliOughel rft. IS a paying isuttjeci,;:--Vott do-not have' to trust six inuitthe..xtr a-year, for tt: re- Y 94, P411k.1174 1 !e 8 41. down process' every, day.---,/kielie . tta Cititen. • • • • who wear pumps are "kiOly 1161 rows " to fookle• - itieit''''rigii6i." •t 1 taw dtlY4 Ago Ale:editor; trotiserved! lqiiy mf,tomcarm,iyi!ir thg!ur4 4l lH q „ . g with about: 'tta2fiet ei:to Ciii•4lF iNe 6,e/ti*.l EDITOR & PUBLISHER 12021 B&NSILS [From tha Montip3M3ry Juura3l,l We give the following extraci.frect a latter received by oue of our 6ornpesr-, itors.from a relative w:lu wont nat Kansas with 1114jor • Bufordg pany: FOUR, NILES SOUTH 9P KtNtiSi . 1 PY R (Alu.). Juno 22, 1556. , "I havel t been through the "war,: irt Kansas rerritery, and am now per- . fectly tired out.. I have' been in otiti battle atul several skirmishes, without. receiving any personal -injury, except hrui4e reteived from Lay horss . falling en me whou ho irJ.3 killed front under ine; but I. received three IMllut holes through my hat.and hut a s•ttib full" of.Sttexpe's b ilia to • w.iiz amnia ma. I have.killed two of tile"dogs". and Cosgrove one. • "The Unitei States troops will ria. permit us to enter the territory armed any inure, and hence "Ocu,:li.t's oeuu' patious'a gone." 1 ant ci.rnag Jute:" ast as soon as I. can snake it .•ratsti?!. i expoditioais unfurtuasta: mua are seattere 1 all along the ft outlet', trying Lu mike m,i,tey uuougit to "carry !Amu - back to 014 "This i 4 JiadoubtOdly the filo.stscoliii-: try in the world; without a.iy excop- Limn and if aurae , (dour Iffeandirslavei holders were to *Lilt a 011Ct3 they would, emigrate with all their huUsenold. "filo S tutu uugat to se.il. 21.),003, mon here tills fait well armed, and provisioned. she don't begin to nit . " , stutups" •li...tusas will pa- a frets State ouz e. "J. F. S." N 6_l'1 1 -E al - Two boys urdre drowned in French:, Creek, three icilese.bove Vtica, kretturi go county, on ,Suudky, July 27th.—. Tney had been at Sabbath School, and wet e returning, When in coin z iany wilts soma other boys, they went into the Creek to swim, after swilning tibuu; some otie of itlolll W.1:3 observed . t'u be strangling in deep w..iter, and ulion Vie outer going - to. hi 3 rescue,, drowning.boy seized hi n, an l'af ter struggling a 'few nionionts, both went down together. Tunic bodies Were recUvered soon after. Tbeit names were, AlllO3, Moyer, aged 12, and Julia Duncan, aged 16 years. Or Thursday. .the - 31st ult., trots buys earned J ohn . Buckley, aged 1.9. and Andrew Sinanas, aged• 16, word drowned in Pine Creek, at Savage's Creek township Crawfoid Co., while bathing. - They were Missed . during the ,day, and on geing- to the chute of. the darn their clottics . were found lying there,. when search was made for :their bodies, wilich were found about 6 'o'clock in the evening. They were: supposed .to have beau drop fled about 10 o'clock A. M. Ho:3. Scilittea, Colfax, of Indiana has been tutapitnously re•nominatod, in Convention, .for-Congress, -by. his constituents. He is au able repre3en.- . tative, and faithfully reflects the loon= arnents of a majority of the Ooople of Indiana.' All who have not already doneso,' should procure and road his speech on Kansas affair:3, delivered the House in June last. itut:to or Atti.—The Louisville Ceuri.' er says the wife of a well known dray, luau in Covington, died ono thy :last, week. The' 'nett day the tioroaved_ man married's:y . oW Wife and to h er ' with hilt to the' dead Wile's fuOeral... So3irrinso New._ ; Thorn ii ti) be s: gathering of, deaf, routes at Cl.on cord, on, the third of Septem tr- next wtieu an, oration is to ho delivered, in, tlr s 4igu,laaggiago, course, toy- , Mr. ituremt clore,,,sy,lio _has bee I chomr orator of the day: The sevvioes of, Rev, "l'hOintts qallandet„,of Now York. have+ been "atiett re - cfas interpreter, for , the heinefii of the hearing, porti ef,Ati.4 Tat•Suivnuarixe Ewe Ritititnii).—•. The eerembuy. of brehlting ground at Railroad, for the Sunbury and . Erie: R a o cgis t toolCplaae' 'on Friday last; amid ranch enthusiadni ;kid: rajohing . There was a large aisetnblag,e on the greund.: :Si V.,;Merricit..Esq., of Phil adelphia; 1 3. iesi4rit: Of tie rOaci; broke 'aii . .d i 'tip'qes.hOp'tilairo, made') Sy . .4 - :. , 4. , 47iiiRtgPt.t0! 1, 115.1 Y. Idorrick. raq.; Mr. Northrop and othem • NO. =II
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