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Napoleon's Three Warnings.
The celebrated Fouche, Duke of
Otranto, was 'retained, for a• time, it is
well known, in the service of the Bour
bons, after their restoration to the
throne of France. He retired to the
town of Aix, in Provence, and there
lived in affluent ease upon the gains of
his long and busy career. Curiosity at
tracted many visitors around this re
markable man, and he was habitually
free in communicating his reminis
cences of the great events which it bad
been his lot to witness. On one occa
sion the company assembled in his sa
loon heard from his lips the following
story :
By degrees as Napoleon assumed the
power and authority of a king, every
thing about him, even in the days of
the consulate, began to wear a court
like appearance. All the old monar
chial habitudes were revived one by
one. Among the other revivalsof this
kind, the custom of attending mass pre
vious to the hour of audience was re
stored, and Bonaparte himself was
punctual in his appearance at the chapel
of St. Cloud on such occasions.
Atone particular time the punctuality
of Bonaparte in his attendance on mass
were rather distressing to his wife. The
quick and jealous Josephine had dis
covered that the eyes of her husband
was too much directed to a window in
the gallery, where there regularly ap
peared the form and face of a young girl
of uncommon beauty. The chestnut
tresses, the brilliant eyes, and graceful
figure of this personage, caused more
uneasiness to the consul's wife, as the
stranger's glances were bent no less
often upon Bonaparte than his were
upon her.
' Who is that young girl?" said Jose
phine one day, at the close of the ser
vice ; " what,can she seek from the First
Consul? I observed her drop a 14let
Just down at his feet. He picked it tip ;
I saw him."
No one could tell Josephine who the
object of her notice precisely was,
though there were some who declared
her to be an emigrant lately returned,
and one who was probably desirous of
the intervention of the First Consul in
favor of her family.
With such guesses as this the consul's
wife was obliged to rest satisfied for the
time.
After the audience of the same day
passed, Bonaparte expressed a wish for
a drive In the park, and accordingly
went out, accompanied by his wife, his
brother Joseph, Generals Duroc and
Cambaceres and Hortense Beauharnois,
wife of Louis Bonaparte.
The King of Prussia had just presented
Napoleon with a superb set of horses,
four in number, and these were har
nessed to an open chariot for the party.
The Consul took it into his head to drive
in person, and mounted into the coach
man's place. The chariot set off, but
just tks it was turning into the park, it
went crash against a stone at the gate,
and the First Consul was thrown to the
ground. He attempted to rise, but
again fell prostrate in a stunned or in
sensible condition. Meanwhile, the
horses sprang forward with the chariot,
and were only stopped when Duroc, at
the risk of his life, threw himself out
in'a swooning state. The rest of the
party quickly returned to the First
Consul and carried him back to his
apartments. On recovering his senses
fully, the first thing which he did was
to jut his hand into his pocket and pull
out the slip of paper dropped at his feet
in the chapel. Lean lag over hisshoulder
Josephine read these words: "Do not
drive out in your carriage to-day."
This can have no allusion to our late
accident," said Bonaparte. "No one
could foresee that I was to play the part
of a coachman to-day, or that I should
be awkward enough to drive against a
stone. Go, Duroc, and examine the
chariot."
Duroc obeyed. Soon after he return
ed, very pale, and took the First Consul
aside.
" Citizen Consul," said he, " had you
not struck the stone, and stopped our
drive, we had all been lost!"
" How?" was the reply.
"There was in the carriage, concealed
behind the back seat, a bomb—a mas•
sive bomb, and with a slow match at.
Welled to it—kindled ! Things had been
so arranged that in a quarter of an hour
we 'should have been scattered among
the trees In the Park of St. Cloud. There
must be some treachery close at hand.
Fouche must be told of this—Dubois
must be warned."
"Not a word, then " replied Bona
parte. " The knowledge of one plot but
engenders a second. Let Josephine re
main ignorant of the danger she has
escaped. Hortense, Joseph, ,Caroba
ceres, tell none of them ; and let the
Government journals say not a word
about my fall."
The First Consul was then silent for
some time. At length he said "Duroc,
you come to-morrow to mass in the
Chapel, and examine with attention a
young girl whom I shall point out to
you. She will Occupy the fourth win
dow in the gallery, on the right. Follow
her home, or cause her to be foilowed—
and bring me intelligence of her name,
her abode and her circumstances. It
will be better to do this yourself. I
would not have the police interfere.
Have you taken care of the bomb, and
removed it."
" I have, Citizen Consul."
" Come then, let us again drive in the
park," said Bonaparte.
The drive was resumed, but on this
occasion the coachman was allowed to
fulfil his own duties.
On the morrow the eye of more than
one person was turned to the window
in the gallery. But the jealous7Jose
phine sought in vain for the elegant
figure of the young girl. She was not
there. The impatient First Consul, with
his confidant, Duroc, were greatly an
noyed at her non-appearance, and small
was the attention paid by them to the
services that oay. Their anxiety was
fruitless. She was seen at mass no
more.
The summers of Napoleon were chief
ly spent at Malmaison • the winters at
St. Cloud and the Tuilleries. Winter
had come on, and the First Consul had
been holding court in the great apart
ment of the last of these palaces. It
was the 3d of the month, which the
Republicans well called nivoss, and in
the evening Bonaparte entered his car
riage to go to the opera, accompanied
by his aid de-camp Lauriston and Gen
erals Lannes and Berthier. T ile vehicle
was about to start, when a female,
wrapped in a black mantle, rushed out
upon the Place Carousel, made her way
into the middle of the guards about to
accompany Napoleon, and held forth a
paper crying:
" Citizen Consul ! read, read!"
Bonaparte, with that smile which
Bourrienne 'described as so irresistible.
saluted the petitioner and stretched ou t
his hand for the missive.
"A. petition, madame?" said be in
quiringly, and then continued, "Pear
nothing; I shall present it, And see jus
tice done!"
" Citizen Consul I" cried the woman
imploringly, joining tier hands.
What she would havefurther said was
lost. The coachman, who it was after
wards said was intoxicated, gave the
lash to his horses, and they sprung with
the speed of lightning. Napoleon,
throwing into his hat the paper he had
received, remarked to his companions:
" I could not well see her figure, but
I think the poor woman is young."
The carriage , dashed rapidly along; it
was just issuing from the street of St.
Nicholas, when a frightful detonation
was beard mingling with and followed
by a ()rash of broken windows. The in
fernal machine had exploded.
Uninjured, the carriage of the Consul
and its inmates were whirled with un
diminished rapidity to theopera. Bona
parte entered his box with serene brow
and unruffled deportment. He saluted,
as usual, the assembled spectators, to
whom the news of the explosion came
with all the speed which rumor exer
cises on such occasions.
All were stunned and' stupefied.
Bonaparte alone was perfeetlymffm. He
stood with crossed arm, listening at
tentively to the oratorio of Haydn,
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VOLUME' 48
which was executed on that evening.
Suddenly he remembered the paper
put in his hands. He took it out, and
read these lines
"In the name of Heaven, Citizen Con
sul do not go to the• opera to-night; if
you do go, pass not through the street of
St. Nictiolas."
The warning came, In some respects,
too late.
On reading these words, the First
Consul chanced to raise his eyes. Ex
actly opposite to him, in a box in the
third tier, sat the young girl of the
chapel of St. Cloud, and with joined
hands, seemed to utter prayers of grati
tude for the escape which had taken
place. Her head had no covering but
her flowing and beautiful chestnut hair,
and her person was wrapped in a dark
mantle, which the Consul recognized as
identical with that worn by the woman
who had delivered the paper to him at
the carriage door. " 4:30," said Bona
parte, quietly butquickly to Lannee, "go
to the box directly opposite to us on the
third tier. You will find a young girl
in a dark mantle. Bring her to the
Tuilleries. I must see her ;" and with
out raising his eyes, but to make Lan
nes certain of the person, he took the
general's arm, and said pointing up
ward, " See there—look !"
Bonaparte stopped suddenly. The
girl was gone; no black mantle was to
be seen. Annoyed at this beyond mea
sure, he hurriedly sent off Lannes to
intercept her. It was all in vain. The
boxkeeper had seen such an individual,
but knew nothing about her. Bonaparte
applied to Fouche and Dubois ; but all
the zeal of these functionaries failed in
discovering her.
Years ran on after the explosion of
the infernal machine, and the strange
accompanying circumstances tended to
make the occurrence more remarkable
in the eyes of Bonaparte. To the Con
sulate succeeded the Empire, and victory
after victory marked the career of the
great Corsican. At length the hours of
change came. Allied Europe poured its
troops into France, and compelled the
Emperor to lay down the sceptre which
had been so long shaken over half the
civilized earth. The isle of Elba be•
came for a day the most remarkable
spot on the globe; and, finally, the re
suscitated empire fell to pieces anew on
the field of Waterloo.
Bonaparte was about to quit France.
The moment had come for him to set
foot on the bark which wus to convey
him to the English vessel. Friends
who had followed the fallen chief to the
very last were standing by him to give
him a final adieu. He waved his hand
to those around, and a smile was on the
lips which had recently given the fare
well kiss to the imperial eagle. At this
instant a woman broke the band that
stood before Napoleon. She was in the
prime of womanhood; not a girl, but
yet young enough to retain unimpaired
that beauty for which she would at any
time have been remarkable among a
crowd of beauties. Her features were
full of anxiety and sadness, adding in
terest to her appearance even at that
moment. " Sire!" said she presenting
a paper at that moment, "read! read ! '
The Emperor took the epistle pre
sented to him, but kept his eye on the
presenter. He seemed, it may be, to
feel at that instant the perfumed breeze
of the park of St. Cloud, to hear the
choristers chanting melodiously in the
chapel as he had heard tnem in other
days. Josephine, Duroc and all his
friends, came haply before him, and
among them the face which he was
wont to see at the fourth window in the
gallery. His eye was now on that coun
tenance in reality, altered, yetthesame.
These illusory recollections were of short
duration. Napolean shook his head an d
held the paper between his hands and
tore it to pieces, scattering the frag
ments in the air.
"Stop, sire," said thewoman, "follow
the advice ! Be warned! It is yet time!"
"No," replied he; and taking from
his finger a beautiful oriental ruby, a
valuable souvenir of his Egyptian cam
paigns, held it out to the woman. She
too it kneeling, and kissing the hand
which presented it. Turning his head,
the Emperor then stepped into the boat,
which waited to take him to the vessel.
Not long afterward he was pining on the
rock of St. Helena.
Thus of three warnings, two were use
less because neglected until the danger
had occurred, and the third—which
prognosticated Napoleon's fate if once
in the power of his adversaries—the
third was rejected.
" But, who was this woman, Duke of
Otranto?"
" Oh, " replied Fouche, " I know not,
with certainty. The Emperor, if he
knew ultimately, seems to have kept
he secret."
All that is known respecting the mat
ter is, that a female related to St. Re
gent, one of the authors of the explosion
of the street St. Nicholas, died at the
hospital Hotel Dieu, in 1837, and that
round her neck was suspended, by a
silk ribbon, the exquisite oriental ruby
of Napoleon.
The River Jordan.
A Palestine letter says :
" In two hours we reached the River
Jordan.. There was not more than a
hundred yards of the river visible here,
the banks elsewhere being fringed with
such a luxuriant growth of shrubs and
bushes us to hide the stream. The river
flows very swiftly between deep banks
of clay, and the size and appearance is
something like the Tiber at Rome. It
is a dark muddy color, and from eighty
to a hundred feet wide. We only re
mained here long enough for the gentle
men to take a bOh ; the water was icy
cold, and I plunged in and scrambled out
again in a hurry. We now left the
river and struck across a flat smooth
plain, covered with a sulphurous crust,
and without a single vestige of vegeta
tion. The promise of the dull sunrise
began to be fulfilled, and the rain pour
ed down in torrents. We unstrapped
our water-proofs and pushed on, and
after an hour's ride reached the shores
of that mysterious sett called Dead.
The scene was solemn in its dreamy
desolation—a strange ebbless sea, over
whose surface scudded the driving mist,
and hemmed in by the dull gray moun
tains, in whose deep gorges lurked the
storm-clouds. What a strange tale
could those deep, blue waters tell of
the buried cities that lie moldering
beneath their surface, could they but de
scribe the marble palaces of Sodom and
Gomorrah, in whose rich halls Licen
tiousness planted her crimson robes, and
bright-eyed Pleasure filled high the
golden goblets! Could they but tell of
that 'fearful day when God's wrath
smote them, and the fire from heaven
consumed them, and the great billows
of this watery pall swept over them—a
living tomb forever. The waves speak
not, but my mouth is parched with the
utter bitterness of the water which I
havti just tasted, and my horse's hoofs
are incrusted with the sulphur from the
desolate plain, which was once the gar
den spot of Palestine, and I turned away
from the' Dead Sea deeply impressed
with the greatness of God's power. We
now had a long and rough ride of live
hours through the Wilderness again,
and up the steep range of mountains
between Jerusalem and Jordan, and by
nightfall we reached the Convent of Mar
Saba. As H. and I had a permit from
the Greek Patriarch, we passed the
night in a comfortable room inside,
with our own beds to sleep on and our
own cook to get dinner for us, but the
other poor fellows, who had ladies with
them, were obliged to camp out in the
rain, as,none of the fair sex are ever ad
mitted within the walls.
Tricks of the RepnbltennPropalfandlete.
The radical emissaries now scattered over
Middle and South Alabama for the purpose
of enlisting the freedmen under the repub•
bean banner resort to all sorts of falshoods
and tricks to get the negroes to attend,
public meetings. A canebrake planter!
states that a freedman In hie employment,
wishing to attend one of the meetings, said,
that he had been told that those who did ,
not attend would be fined or punished in
some other way; also that the negroes had'
a right to attend all public meetings, the
days oA which public meetings' were held,
being considered public day's, and that.
employers had no fight to make any dadua-4
tion for absence on those days.-2 4 7. Y.
Herald.
The Node of Saving Wrecks
Hauling OffVessele-GettlngOut Sunken
Ca d
The Way f ay Among the Wreelkeia—
o Life.
There is probably no portion of the
coast where the'wrecking . of vessels is
more systematically pursued than that
of New Jersey. The cottages and - huta
of the wreckers dot the low, sandy
shores, from Sandy Hook to Cape May.
One or two wrecks are to be seen here
or there at almost any time during the
Winter months of storm ; the finnin g season is at an end, the fishermen be
come wreckers. The business is now
entirely in the hands of the Under
writers. • Their agents may always be
telegiaphed in a short space of time;
and these, with the co-operation of the
authorities appointed by County or
State and the boatmen in their employ,
are speedily at the scene of disaster to
rescue life and property.
The modes of shipwreck are, of course,
various. The experienced eye of the
agent, or wreck-master—mostly an old
seaman or coastman—quickly deter
mines the course to be pursued. If the
vessel lies in such a position that she
may possibly be hauled from the shoal
or reef into deep water, the monstrous
hawser is brought into readiness, made
fast, and the powerful apparatus in em
ploy of the Underwriters brought to bear
upon the stranded ship. If the weather
is favorable, attempts of this nature will
frequently be persisted in for clays, and
even weeks, until the end is finally at
tained.
So well can the skillful wrecker de
termine whether the hulk can be drag
ged from the reef, or whether she will
be worth anything when this is achiev
ed, that preparations will frequently be
made for this purpose, when, to the un
practised eye, the wreck appears to be
In the worst possible position. Most
remarkable cases have been known,
wherein huge hulls have been hauled
an almost incredible distance over the
sands, and finally righted and saved.
The steam pump—an engine of great
power—is held in readiness, and, at the
proper moment, the huge tubes were
set to sucking the sand and water from
the hold until time is had to so repair
the bruised and shattered sides suffici
ently to permit the hull to ride safely
on her own bottom. But, if there hap
pen to be a heavy sea, if the pumping
of the wreck betokens that she will
speedily go to pieces, the entire eftbrts
of the wreckers are turned to saving
the cargo.
Cargo-saving, as well as ship-saving,
and the method in which it is accom
plished, is dependent greatly ou the
condition of the sea and the manner in
which the vessel lies. In some cases,
the steam-tug, lighter and attendant
schooners may be run directly along
side, and then the work of taking out
the freight is greatly facilitated. The
battened hatches are quickly burst open,
or apertures made in the side ; the tackle
with which the Underwriter's steamer
is provided, is brought into speedy re
quisition, and bale after bale, crate after
crate, barrel after barrel, hurried into
the holds of the staunch little schooners.
But if the swell is too high to ap
proach the wreck with the larger ves
sels, then recourse is had to the surf
boats, which is a much more tedious
and perilous experiment. The surf boats
are quite small, and are each provided
with a crew of seven—six oarsmen and
a steersman. To see them push off to
the rescue through a heavy surf, is to
witness an exciting and alarming scene,
and to inspire one with surprise that so
few of the wreckers are lost, or rather
that so many of them survive, in follow
ing their vocation. The little boat,
when fairly launched—not the easiest
portion of the undertaking—is tossed
like an egg shell on the angry waves,
and sometimes rolls almost out of sight
among the hollows and hills of water,
but with good steering she mostly
emerges, and gains the neighborhood of
the reef. The surf boat is never pro
vided with a rudder. A long oar at the
stern is used altogether by the steers
man, who is invariably the picked man
of the entire crew, and must know his
business thoroughly.
When the small boats are resorted to,
the schooners lie off dt a safe distance,
and the wreck Is occupied by gangs
who stand ready with their wrecking
tackle to lower the merchandise into
the surf-boats. These will not safely
carry more than a single bale of cotton,
or a couple of barrels of flour at a time,
and the operation of lowering even these
packages into one of them is frequently
a very dangerous, one. The wreck may
be beating heavily with every rush of
the breakers. The surf-men must look
after the management of their boat,
narrowly watching every incoming
wave, and preparing to meet It with the
prow, avoiding the motion of the lum
bering wreck which every instant
threatens to engulf them or suck them
under its keel ; In addition to this they
must watch their chance of receiving
on board the pieces of cargo suspended
over their heads. Up and down with
the twelve-foot swell they are rudely
tossed, while high In the air oscillates a
bale or cask, looking almost as big as
the boat itself, and frequently they have
to wait many minutes before they can
receive it with safety.
Of course, this method of unloading a
wreck, and conveying the cargo, piece
by piece, on board the schooners, is a
very slow and tedious one. When a
hulk is going to pieces very rapidly, and
the operation of unloading can only be
carried on by means of small boats, very
small portions of the cargo can be saved.
But the rough boatmen cling to the
timbers while there is the chance of
saving anything. Indeed, it frequently
happens that their greed proves their
destruction ; for there have been cases
when the wreck has suddenly parted
and gone out of sight with a gang of
wreckers in her crazy hold, many days
after the passengers and crew have been
safely landed and housed. When the
wreck is a bad one, and has shifted from
the rock or bar which stranded her into
deep water, so that she is wholly sub
merged, the only recourse is diving for
sunken freight, which cannot be done
when the water is very rough. The
wreckmaster must wait for a propitious
time. As a general thing, before pro
ceeding with diving, the steatmpump is
resorted to, in order to cleanse the
wreck of the masses of sand or mud
Which have inoumbered it through the
action of the waters. • The engine used
in this work is an ingenious one of great
power,and seldom falls to accomplish
its portion of the labor.
The methods of wrecking which we
have indicated are but a few of the nu
merous operations with which the
wreckers recover property, which but
for them would be totally lost in the
sea, or cast ashore for the enrichment of
the needy dwellers thereon. The man
ner of operation so much depends upon
the circumstances of the shipwreck,
and is so much at the option of the
wreck-master, that it would be difficult
to enumerate the various modes of pro
cedure. But it may be well to speak of
the organized system of wrecking which
I prevails on our entire coast, and to be
come better acquainted with the men
engaged in it. On a coast like that of
New Jersey, every county bordering on
the sea has its official called the wreck
master, who is a very important man
in his district, and wields large influ
ence among the coast people. The
emoluments received in the shape of
ealvage are also considerable, and the
position, therefore, much desired.
When a vessel gots ashore and gives
her signal of distress, the wreokmaster
or his agent communicates with her
instantly. It is optional with the cap
tain of the vessel as to whether hie ship
shall be systematically "wreaked," or
not. If satisfied that the vessel is loot,
and that it is to the advantage of his in
surers, he will give the permission and
will surrender all operations into the
; hands of the wreckmaster; if he re
fuses, and cargo as well as ship are to
tally lost, he does so on his own respon
'Ability." According to the law, there
must be no individual wrecking all'
wreckers are under command of the
wreokmaster,, and work for him at so
much per clay. The finder , of goods
'washed" on shore is allowed; only one
day's wages 48) fdr making the dis
covery; and the goods must be eurren
ta,ANO,Mg FA. WEDNY:StqI ; *MING, JUNE 5..1867.
defied to the wreckinastei, who takes
charge in the name of the" State and
Underwriter's. In conjunction with the
agent.of the Underwriting .Company,
who may arrive from New York or
other city in the neighborhood of the
disaster," the master takes charge of eve
rything. Gangs of wreckers; are formed,
boating forces organized—the first care
being that of the life-boats, in case of
necessity ; the situation of the wreck is
'examined, and everything placed in
readiness to '"
to go through' , the ves
sel in a systematic manner. Of course,
there exists some dishonesty. The poor
dwellers in the , coast are • needy, surf
boating is a wild and hard life, and
probably many a costly bale or cask is
hid away, until a secret disposition of
it shall contribute to the supportof hun
gry wreckers' wives and sundry juven
ile wreckers at home. But these irreg
ularities will exist in all systems, and
we may have the satisfaction of know
ing that the merchandise lost might
fall into worse hands.
The wreckers themselvei are a most
characteristic people, and those of the
New Jersey coast must be excellent
specimens of the entire raee, from Lab
rador to the Florida Keys.
Fishernlen in the Summer, wreckers
in the Winter, they vegetate in their
little cottages and huts on the bleak
sea-strand, and all through the stormy
months they look sea-ward for a wreck
as earnestly and yearningly as during
the milder months they pray for heavy
nets of blue-fish and mackerel. Even
their houses in many instances, are
made of fragments of old wrecks, and it
is not unusual to see relics of disaster
and tempest about the doors and win
dows, wherefrom the moody tobacco
smoke of the meditative wrecker ex
hales, as he broods by his drift-wood
fire, waiting for the signal which brings
his surf-boat in demand, and welcome
spoils to his needy roof.
Who Can Vote in the South—Opinlon of
the Attorney General.
The following is a fair synopsis Of
the opinion of Attorney General Stan
bery on the clauses of the Reconstruc
tion act on the subject of voting and
holding office. The opinion as to the
powers of commanding generals will be
given hereafter. As to the original apt
he says:
The qualifications of a voter are by
the fifth section limited to the election
of delegates to a convention, and to the
question whether such convention shall
or shall not be held ; and that no quali
fications as to the voter are required in
all elections to any office under existing
provisional governments during their
continuance, and as to eligibility at
such elections, certain classes are ex
cluded. .
As to the supplemental act, he says:
The question of qualification or dis
qualification is fixed by registration.—
No power is given to any other board
or any other authority after registration
is completed to change the registry.—
The persons whose names are admitted
to registry are entitled to vote, subject
to the limitation hereinafter mentioned
and no other. This registration must
be completed before the first of Septem
ber, 1867. The functions of the board
of registration cannot be extended be
yond that fixed time, but after that
time the duties remaining to be per
formed by the officers composing tnis
board are limited to holding and super
intending elections and making proper
returns to the Commanding 01-eneral.
This brings us to the direct question,who
is entitled to registration? First, as to
citizenship and residence, no persons
are entitled to vote who shall-net. ~ t 4
„.
resident in the State for one yetif
vious to the day of election. It Is not
necessary that this previous residence
for a year should exist at the time the
person applies for registration. A per
son in all other respects entitled to vote
is entitled to registration, though he has
not at the time been a resident of the
State for a full year; for we find in the
supplemental act that the oath as to
residence does not require the applicant
to swear that he has then been a resi
dent for a year, but only requires him
to state the number of months of , his
residence, contemplating a period less
than, as well as the full term of, twelve
months ; therefore, as to such person so
registered, If it happen at any election
subsequently to be held, that the time
of his residence, counting from the day
of election, does not cover an entire
year, he cannot vote at such election,
for this supplemental act does not, as to
residence, change the provisions of the
original act, as it is explicitly provided
by it as to registration, that it shall in
clude only those qualified to vote by
the original act. To carry out the pur
pose of the law in this respect as to resi
dence, boards of registration should
note opposite the name of the person
whose residence has not extended to the
full term, the exact time of his resi
dence.
AB to the citizenship qualification, it
is stated in the original act it is citizen
ship of the State; but by the first clause
of the first section in thetupplementary
act, the registration is to be made of
male citizens of the United States, and
as to oath the applicant is only required
to swear he is a citizen of the State. I
am of opinion the phrase "citizen of
the State," as used in the oath, is in
tended to include only such persons as
are citizens of the United States, and
that an alien, who has not been made a
citizen of the United States, cannot
safely take the oath ; but as boards of
registration have only authority to ad
minister theprescribed oath, they could
require no further oath as to citizeh
ship, and if an alien not made a citizen
of the United States takes the oath, he
takes .it at his peril, and is subject to
prosecution for perjury.
Second, as to age, no one is entitled
to registration whoi is not •at least
twenty-one years of age when he applies
for registration. In this respect the
qualification as to residence, and the
fact of majority must exist at the date
of registration.
Third, as to disfranchisement, the
fifth section of the original act denies
the right to vote to such as may be dis
franchised for participation in the rebel
lion or felony at common law. The
words used, "in the rebellion,"
must be taken to mean the recent rebel.
lion; but the supplemental act enlarges
the disqualfication, and requires the
applicant to swear that he has not been
disfranchised for participation in any
rebellion or civil war against the United
States, The mere fact of such participa
tion or commission does not of itself
work a disfranchisement; it must be
ascertained by judgment of a court or
legislative act. I am not aware of any.
law of the United States which works
disfranchisement as to right of suffrage
by force of an act itself, nor does
such a consequence follow from con
viction for treason or any other
acts of participation in rebellion.
The provision 111 the Constitution of
the United States does not declare what
shall be the punishment on conviction
of treason ; that is left for Congress,
with the limitation that corruption of
blood shall not follow as a consequence
of any forfeiture except during the life
of the party. Congress, in the exercise
of its power, has limited such punish
ment on conviction 'to the penalty of
death or imprisonment, and by manu
mission of slaves owned by the party,
and to disqualification from holding
any office under the United States. I
not advised of any statute now in force
in either of these ten States, except,
perhaps, Virginia, which declares dis
franchisement as to right of suf
frage by force of the act itself.—
The original act contemplates dis
franchisement arising from partici
pation ina rebellion, whereas disfran
chisement under the fourth and fifth
clauses of the supplemental bill' doeti
not arise from such participation, but
other elediente must concur; that is,
the holding of certain offices or taking
an official oath', by certain officers and
afterwaide participating in rebellion
against the United States. As to
some officers, no doubt members of a
State Legislature , and Congress, are
clearly enough. designated. A State
Convention. for framing amendments
to the State Constitution, though cloth.
ed with legislative pciiier, Cannot prop
erly - be calletni State Legislature, and
in the ad:snow under Conifideration,
Convention and, a Legislature are ex
pressly distinguished from each other,
for they require a Constitution to be
framed by the Convention, and'rentiire
the Legislature of the same State to
adopt the Constitutional Amendment.
When, then, in the same acts they
again use the phraie "Legislature of
the State," they must be understood to
use it in the Same sense, and distin
guished from a Constitutional Conven
tion; but as to those Legislatures which
passed what are called ordinances of
secession, I am of opinion their mem
bers are properly comprehended within
this disqualifying clause, for I can im
agine no legislative position in which
the duty of allegiance was more dis
tinctly violated.
A more difficult inquiry is, who to
consider an officer of the United States,
or an executive or judicial officer of any
State. Various classes of officers are
intended, State officers, and Federal
°Pikers, and executive or judicial offi
cers. No legislative officer is mention•
ed, except a member of the State legis
lature or a member of Congress,. The
descriptions used as to other officers, are,
as to State officers, they must be judi
cial or executive, and as to a federal
officer, the terms executive or judicial,
are not expressed. He is described
simply as an officer of the United States.
Officers of the militia of a State are not
included in these terms of description,
&se the act would have included civil
or military officers of the States, for in
the third section of the Constitutional
amendment, known as article 14, Con
gress expresses that purpose very clear
ly. That section is expressly referred
to more than once in these acts, and
Is, made in fact part of these acts.
Its language is followed word for
word in these qualifying clauses as
far as possible, except in the particular
in which one is made to apply to eligi
bility and the other to rights to vote.
When, therefore, we find Congress de
claring whatpersons shall be disfran
chised from hordingany office, expressly
including military as well as civil offi
cers, as in the third section referred to,
and in (providing what persons shall
be disfranchised from voting who held
any office, it omits to mention military
officers, we cannot escape the conclu
sion that military officers were not
within their contemplation. It must
be borne in mind that we are here con
sidering a class of military officers who
were such prior to the rebellion,• when
the office was loyal, and known as offi
cers of militia; not that class who
became officers during the rebellion.
This last class was under the clause
of disqualification which applies to
participation in rebellion. As to
the civil officers disfranchised the
clause fairly includes all State offi
cers, jGovernor, Lieutenant Governor,
State Auditor, Treasurer, Secretary
of State, officials proper who exercised
executive functions at the seat of gov
ernment. I am not prepared to say that
only these proper State officials come
within the terms of description, nor am
I prepared as to judiciat officials of a
State to limit the description to judges
of courts whose jurisdiction extend
throughout the entire State. I
must content myself by saying they are
clearly within the meaning of the law
Municipal officers do not come within
the provisions of the act. Subordinate
officers of a legislature, who are not
members,-do not come within the pro
visions. As to county, township and
precinct officers, he reserves his opinion
whether all of them or not all, while
91
iclasses
~ ,tem come within disqualifi
on.' All other executive or judicial
cers except county officers come
-within the meaning of these laws.
Persons who exercise special public
duties rather in the nature of occasional
employment, than general and con
tinuing official duty, do not come
within the law, as boards of commis
sioners of public works, directors of
State asylums, visitors of State univer
sities, directors of State penitentiaries,
State directors of banks or other cor
porations, special commissioners, &c.;
but all persons who, as executive or
judicialofficers of any State, have taken
the oath to support the Constitution of
the United States, are clearly disfran
chised. All persons, who during the
rebellion, acted in an official capacity,,
where the duties of the office necessarily
had relation to the support of rebel
lion, such as members- of the rebel Con
gress and rebel Conventions, diplomatic
agents of the rebel Confederacy, or such
officials whoa q duties more especially
appertained to the support of the rebel
cause, come within the terms of exclu
sion.
Officers in the rebel States, who dur
ing the rebellion discharged official
duties not incident to the war, but in
the preservation of order and adminis
tration of the law, are not to be Consid
ered as thereby engaging in rebellion.
The interests of humanity require the
performance of such duties, and they
can never be considered as criminal,
Mr. Stanbery is satisfied the language
used in the act as to participation in the
rebellion curries the idea of voluntary
participation, and that Congress used
in this sense the word " engaged." Some
direct overt act, done with intent to
further the rebellion, is necessary to
bring the party within the purview and
meaning of the law. Merely disloyal
sentiments or expressions are not sulit
olent. The person applying for regis•
tration is not required to clear himself
from the taint of disloyalty. The mean
ing of Congress becomes yet more evi
dent when we look at the last clause of
the prescribed oath. He is required to
swear he will faithfully support the
Constitution and obey the laws of the
United States, and will to the best of his
ability encourage others to do so. This
provision looks to the future and not to
the past, and the purpose is manifest to
omit in the right to vote the disqualifi
cation arising from past disloyalty, put
in the, test oath as a disqualification
from bolding office, mere acts of com
mon humanity arid charity cannot be
considered as iiivolving the party in
participation in the rebellion. 80, too,
with forced contributions to the rebel
authorities, or compulsory payment of
taxes in aid of rebel arms ; but when
ever an act is doue voluntarily in aid of
the rebel cause, it would involve the
person and work disqualification under
the law. Voluntary contributions in
furtherance of the rebellion or subscrip
tions, contributions of food or clothing
or necessary supplies, except of a strict
ly sanitary character, are to be classed
with acts which disqualify.
The duties and powers of the Board
of Registration are adverted to. The
administration of any other oath than
the one provided in the act would be
extra judicial and without authority,
arid false swearing could not be assigned
as perjury upon such unauthorized
oath. The oath in the act is the sole
and only test of the qualifications of
the applicant' if he takes it, his name
must go on the register. The Board
gannotgenter upon an inquiry whether
be has sworn truly or falsely. At the
election the duty of the Board is simply
to receive the votes of registered per
sons, and reject all others:
Had Enough oflt
A funny, matrimonial affair recently
ocoured near Spirit Lake, Minnesota.
A green justice married three couples in
one batch, and about four weeks after
ward discovered that a licence from
the clerk of the court was necessary to
make the ceremony legal, and he lost
no time in informing, the parties that
they were still single, though they had
lived together the intrevening time.
The first couple were willing to risk
the consequences; the second consented
to be remarried; while.the third, hav
ing discovered in each other divers and
sundry shortcomings, refused to have
the knot re-tied.—being, satisfied with
one month of matrimony, and glad to
revert to single blessedness.
There is great excitement in Montana on
account, or Indiana depredations, and
volunteer. troops have been raised, under
the 'direction or the Governor, to fight the
Indians. U. G. troops are also moving to
exposed points. Five deserters have been
killed by Indiana near Fort Hayes, Kansas.
Famine at the South,
Appeal ef Rev. Henry A. RearilMaND:D.
The following beitutiful speech In behalf
of 'the suffering people of the South, was.
made by Rev. Dr. Boardman at the Relief
Meeting held in Philadelphia on the 15th of
March :
MR. CH.AIII I K :—CitCnntafanoes having
put me in connection with the conference
out of which this meetinghasgrown, I have
been requested to say a few words respect
ing the object for which we are convened. I
am prepared with ample documentary evi
deoce official and unofficial, to establish
the fa ct of wide-spread and alarming desti
tution at the South. With the recent action
of the United States Senate before us, and
the testimony of General Howard, the Head
of the Freedmen'S Bureau, received within
the last forty-eight hours, it would be super
fluous to consume the time of the meeting.
in reading the papers I hold in my hand.
It may be assumed as beyond the reach of
contradiction, that within a certain belt of
territory covering portions of the States
of North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, and Mississippi, there are a
half million of people who are brought
face to face with starvation. This is the
appalling calamity which appeals to our
sympathies to-day. We meet here, men of
all sects and parties, upon a platform as
broad as our common humanity, to con
cert measures of relief for our afflicted
countrymen. It is justly observed in one
of the resolutions before us, that "the city
of Philadelphia has never turned a deaf ear
to an appeal on behalf of human suffering."
The old Kensington oak under- which
William Penn framed his treaty with the
Indians, has long since disappeared; but
the good seed planted by himself and his
associates, has continued to grow and fruc
tify to the present hour. Our City has been
the very garden spot of those beneficient
virtues which were so admirably exempli
fied by the Founders of this Commonwealth;
and it will not be found wanting in a great
and sad emergency like that which con
fronts us to-day.
It may, indeed, be recorded to the honor
of our country, that we have never been in
different to the sufferings of our fellow
creatures oven in distant lands. There are
gentlemen present who will recall the
period, now some forty years gone by,
when Greece, after being desolated by a
war of Independence was ravaged by a
famine like that which now prevails in
the Southern States; and ship-load after
ship-load of provisions was sent from our
ports to their relief. I seldom think of our
gallant Navy without a feeling of pride.—
But never have I looked upon one of our
National ships with the peculiar emotions
I experienced just twenty years ago, on our
being driven one day by a gale into the Cove
of Cork, where we passed in the stream the
Jamestown or the Vincennes with the Stars
and Stripes floating from her masthead, and
loaded down to the scuppers with food for
the famishing Irish—a minister of wrath
transformed into a herald of mercy. A
most grateful spectacle it was and most
honorable to our national character, that
such a response should be made under the
official sanction of the Executive Depart
ment of our Government, to the cry of a
d.stant people perishing from famine. With
the same promptness did you move to the
succor of the starving Portuguese of Ma
deira, when the tidings came to us some
years ago, that their crops had failed and
famine was brooding over their beautiful
Island. Nay, even in the midst of the terri
ble war from which we have so lately
emerged, the unwearied benevolence of our
people sent generous supplies to the needy
operatives of Lancashire, in the very
heart of the manufacturing districts
of England. In none of these cases have
our citizens stopped to ask, "Of what
race are you? What language do you
speak ? At what altars do you worship ?"
Enough that they were sufferers. This was
all you cared to know. And assuredly it
will be enough to stir your sympathies
now, when this unwonted plague has
lighted upon our own shores, and its un
happy victims are our countrymen and
neighbors, 'bone of our bone and flesh of
our flesh.' Wisely and well doyou propose,
in the terms of the resolutions just submit
ted, lo bestow your bounty upon them,
"irrespective of all social, political, or re
ligious distinctions." In the presence of a
visitation like this, all such distinctions
sink into insignificance. You will not re
member the past. You will not interrogate
these vast throngs of sufferers, as to
their opinions or their acts. If
the Priest and the Levite choose to
abandon a dying man because he does not
wear their livery or talk in the dialect of
their school, or even because he may have
done things worthy of rebuke, you will
think only of his peril, and hasten with the
good Samaritan to bind up his wounds and
pour in oil and wine.
This, Mr. Chairman, is the spirit which
has hitherto controlled our countrymen, as
it is the temper inculcuted by the Word of
God. The charity of the Gospel of Christ
IBM' a lofty and catholic tone. It recognizes
ale universal brotherhood of the race. It
spurns the suggestions of pride, of resent•
ment, of selfishness; and craves only the
high privilege of ministering to the relief of
human misery. And here, as is quite ap
parent, the promptings of true philanthro
py are coincident with the suggestions of
a wise political philosophy. For the ques
tion immediately before this meeting really
merges itself in the broader question of the
entire suture of the United Slates.
It has been often and justly said, that the
bitter war through which we have passed
was a crucible to our national character.
By the favor of God, that trial leas brought
to an auspicious issue: sedession was
frustrated and rebellion suppressed. The
great problem has been resolved, and the
Issue determined, that henceforward we are
to remain one people, living under the same
flag, recognizing the same institutions,
deterring to the same authority. So far we
may fitly congratulate ourselves upon the
result. B. ut we have exchanged one crucible
Mr another. The transition from war to peace
is, in some respects, more critical than that
from peace to war. The march to the battle
field proves the soldier's constancy and
courage; it is the march home that testshis
moderation, his integrity, his reverence for
law, his self-control. The passions of war
lie upon the surface; the calm virtues of
peace nestle down in the deep recesses of
the human breast, where they aro too often
overlaid by a wAss of rubbish—prejudices,
caprices, and resentments, envenomed by
these perverse tempers of ours. Even with
a people unused to war, blit proud, sensi•
tive and ambitious, it requires the utmost
sagacity and prudence on the part of those
who sit at the helm, so to order their inter.
course with foreign Cabinets as to prevent
the passions of the nation from breaking
out on slight pretexts into open aggression.
And if this danger waits upon the ordinary
administration of affairs, it can be no
ea , y matter to recall such a people
from a state of actual and prolonged
(=act, to the gentle'arts Of peace and the
practice of its tranquil and beneficent vir
tues.
We are all turning our eyes towards
Washington. As American citizens we
claim the right of criticising or commend
ing the acts of our rulers. We feel that we
have a right to look to them for such a
policy as will show that we are a Christian
nation; a policy which shall tend to extin
guish the animosities of the war, and to
bring back the concord and the prosperity
we have lost. But if we expect to see this
thoroughly accomplished at Washington,
we mistake our remedy. There are things
which Ile beyond the range of
We
force
and which baffle legislation. We hear much
about the reserved rights of the States. You
and I, Sir, both of us, may regret that
Washington and Hamilton were not able
to "carry out their cherished purpose of mak
ing a stronger Central Government in the
outset. But we believe that while the
States have their reserved rights,
the people baVe theirs ; and that
among these, besides the indefeasible
right to life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness, they have the right to make up
quarrele; the right to subdue their mutual
resentments; the right to forget the late
fratricidal conflict; the right to meet together
and strike hands across fields fertilized with
precious, priceless blood, and thus to restore
their ancient amity. These are among the
reserved rights of the 'people ; and the
specification may serve to indicate the prime
duty wbich devolves upon us today. The
course of events summons us to the grateful
task ofhealing our country's wounds, and
repairing .the broken chain of our national
fellowship. And the opportunity brought
to our doors is that of fostering these aims
by an exhibition of that genuine benevo•
lence which true humanity enjoins and true
religion inspires.
A piercing cry of distress has come to us
from the South. Our sister cities of Bald-
More, New York and Boston, have met it
with a prompt and generous response; and
Philadelphia is to decide to day whether
she will be true to her hereditary character,
and do her share in this work of philan.
thropy. There certainly are hindrances in
the . way, which may cheek our sympathies
if we consult only our native passions; and
the trial now appointed us of Providence
• is, whether we be capable of rising above
these antipathies, • to the platform of a
higher and purer morality. Whatever
rpalr be, suggested to the contrary,, no
.natton ; ,,, ever lost by a, display , of
magnanimity towards the vanquished.—
' We have a memorable illustration. of
'this in the history of ancient Israel.
The small and restless tribe of Benjamin,
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after perpetrating a monstrous crime and
then defying the authority of the Common
wealth, left the question to the arbitrament
of war. In two bloody battles they were
sueoeitsfuL • In the third they were nearly
exterminated: twenty Ave thousand of'
them were slain, six hundred only sur
vived. The instant the sword was sheath
ed, the allies came together, and with ap
propriate religious observances, spent an
entire day in contrition and weeping: " 0
Lord God of Israel, why is this come to
pass in Israel, that there should be to
day one tribe lacking in Israel?" It may
be safely affirmed that during the three
thousand years and more which have
elapsed since this transaction occurred, no
man has read the narrative without con
sciously applauding the conduct of the
victors. There can be no one in our goodly
city in whose bosom there is not an under
current of sympathy in keeping with the
whole tone of that memorable scene at
Mizpeh. The qualities that shine out in
scenes like this,
emit a radiance which
neither time nor change can obscure ; for
they address themselves to the universal
instincts of humanity. And will
it hold true, as it has in the past, that man
kind will commend a forbearing and
merciful policy towards the conquered.
What the occasion demands at our hands
is a display of magnanimity towards the
South. It may be said, that it was they
themselves who filled the cup of bitterness
which has been pressed to their lips. But
have they not drunk it to the dregs? And
is not this enough? Is it for us upon whose
cause a gracious Providence has smiled,
and who, notwithstanding our great sor
rows, rejoice In the preservation of the
Union and the re-establishment of the
national authority throughout the land—is
it for us to desire that this cup may befitted
again? It cannot be. It were passing
strange if a single man could be found in
this city of William Penn, so little in accord
with the reigning spirit of Philadelphia, of
Pennsylvania, as to waver in his support of
the movement now happily inaugurated for
the relief of the South. Those writers who
have expressed themselves in the news
papers with a real or affected asperity
against the movement, set at nought the
❑obler principles of human nature, and labor
to keep asunder that which God has joined
together. Unquestionably there is more
or less bitterness of feeling at the South.
There are public journals which indulge in
denunciatory language towards us. There
are politicians who would keep alive the
old strife. But what then? Can any 'one
here be so ignorant of history as not to
know that every war, and especially every
civil war, produces a harvest of suspicions
and heart•burninga, of eliminations and
recriminations? These are the legitimate
and unvarying fruits of such a contest. It
were puerile to expect any other result, at
least among a people like ourselves. As
to the great mass of the educated classes in
the revolted States, they have manifested a
disposition to acquiesce quietly in the ad
judication of the war, and to return to
their allegiance to the Federal Government.
In so far as the adverse spirit may have re
vealed itself, it is not for us to "render evil
for evil," but to "overcomeevil with good."
As a Christian nation, we ought to be able
to rise superior to the passions of war ; to
take counsel of our holy religion; and to
recognize in this critical hour, only the
suffering and danger of a community pre
cipitated from a condition of thrift and com•
fort into the very jaws of famine. This lathe
dictate of Christianity. It is no less the
demand of patriotism. It is even enjoined
by the consideration of self-interest. They
aro one with ourselves. The war has decided
that point. We are henceforth to be
one nation—to share the same for
tunes; to meet the same destiny. It
is clearly, then, for our common
welfare, that we be one in purpose and
affection; that we banish our aversions,
compose our quarrels, and resume the
amicable relations which illustrated the
early days of the Republic. Not to aim at
this, were to counterwork our own aspira
tions and jeopard our prosperity. And the
true method to compass it, is to show them
kindness. This is the wise principle upon
which,a judicious father seeks to reclaim a
prodigal son. This is the principle which, as
every American feels, ought to have control
led the policy of the British Government
towards Ireland. It may be no easy task
to restore the old brotherhood ; but love is
stronger than hate. And ifthegreat problem
admit of a solution, we hold in our hands,
under God, the means of solvingit. In any
event, we can but make the effort. Whether
we regard the teachings of Scripture, the
promptings of pity, or simply our own well
being, it behooves us to do everything in our
power to stay this devastating curse and
rescue the famishing from death. This,
Mr. Chairman, is what you design to
do. In the comprehensive terms of the
resolutions before you, you propose (I
must repeat the words) to minister to the
relief of the South, " irrespective of all
social, political or religious distinctions."
This Is the true ground. When the war
opened, at the sound of the first gun, seven•
ty-five thousand men hastened to Wash
ington ; and soon the people rose up as one
man, and rushed to the defence of the Union
and the Constitution. The times demand
that this marvellous scene be repeated. 'Let
the people again rise up as one man at the
call of patriotisln andpiety, of peace and
charity. Let them go forth in the might of
a heaven-born philanthropy, to conquer
the South by kindnesa, and the sublime re
sult will be achieved. Let this sentiment
be to us what the symbol of the Cross was
to Constantine, and we may with even
greater confidence inscribe his motto upon
our banner, "In hoc sign° vinces ;" In
this sign thou shalt conquer." With this
banner you may traverse the entire realm
of the South, "conquering and to conquer- "
and by ;God's blessing, yonder noontide
sun will soon pour down his refulgent
beams upon a peaceful land, and a united
and prosperous people.
Battle of the Birds
The Bloomington (Ind.) Program has
the following , highly imaginative story
of a bird conflict:
While sauntering around our beauti
ful city lately, we accidentally witnessed
one of the most singular ornithological
exhibitions that ever fell under our ob
servation. A chimney swallow had
only begun to balance his little body
upon, the topmost branch of a large
cherry-tree, when a robin of aldermanlo
proportions swept down upon him from
a neighboring maple.
The swallow fought nobly for awhile
and with every prospect ofsuccess, until
his russet-colored foe was reinforced by
his mate ; then, and not till then did
the little hero cry for quarter. Twitter
ing loud and piteously, he attracted the
attention of some of his tribe, and to his
relief came the colony of a neighboring
chimney. Now began a combat worthy
a painter'spencil. As the swallows ad
vanced and retired in dark waves, they
dealt cruel blows at the devoted robins,
who, maddened by pain, fought with
desperation; but the odds were too
great, and gasping, bleeding, quivering,
catching from bough to bough, the
robins fell to the earth, shapeless and
torn.
Although intensely:exditing, the com
bat was not the most interesting feature
of this curious exhibition. Many of the
swallows were covered with wounds
given by the sharp claws and strong
beaks of the unfortunate robins, and
these received the immediate attention
of the unwounded, who in pairs carried
them tenderly to their sooty homes.
Now came the final and most singular
feature. Tenderly, carefully, and
solemnly, was each dead swallow con
veyed to the top of a large chimney ad
jacent, and after piling up the rigid
bodies in one sombre heap, the entire
swarm settled upon the roof in silence,
while one of their companions whose
great age was evident from the
light gray of his feathers, perched upon
the lightning rod, and for some five or
ten minutes chirped, twittered and
slowly flapped her wings. During this
performance,. which was evidently an
oration upon the virtues of the deceased,
the bird audience maintained their posi
tions itemovably, but at its ()lose, three
of the birds, whose black, glistening
coats denoted their youth, advanced and
cautiously pushed the bodies into the
yawning chimney. This accomplished,
each winged witness sailed away noisily
twittering, asthough in heated discus
sion over the fight in which each had
participated.
Cat Ordinance.
The Borough Council of,Banover has de
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person to maliciously destroy,in the borough
of Hanover, any oat for as purpose of ob
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$lO and oosta for each and every violation
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Mormonism has actually risen to a pre
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ings• in Kensington, a dissenting minister
of tlie Church or England embraced their
faith, and publicly avowed his intention of
taking his wife and family to Utah with the
next batch of converts mat leave for that
country.
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