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" AT
ALL HAZARDS."
GENERAL McCLELLAN, in accepting
the nomination of a Convention which says that the war has failed and that there
must be an immediate cessation of hostilities to arrange a peace, declares, with
a fine flourish, that the Union must be preserved at all hazards. His friend,
HORATIO SEYMOUR, the President of the Convention, differs from him. Mr, SEYMOUR
says that if the Union can be preserved only by emancipation, then to save
Slavery the Union must go.
Yet Mr. SEYMOUR, will vote for
General McCLELLAN. Does not that fact, give us a glimpse behind the scenes ?
Mr. SEYMOUR further says that the
candidate is the representative of principles. Of what principles ? Clearly of
those who nominated him.
Will every Union man weigh these
things?
A
SHOT FROM FARRAGUT.
IN his dispatch to Commodore
PALMER, at New Orleans,
Admiral FARRAGUT says " Congratulate the General
commanding, . . . Nothing could have been more harmonious than our combined
operations. We had no ambition to excel each other but in the destruction of the
enemy's works.”
Are not these timely words for
dissatisfied Union men to ponder? Ought we to have any other object than. the
destruction of the enemy's works at Chicago and elsewhere, and the defeat of all
their Generals commanding?
THE
PRESIDENT.
THE great service that the
President has done for this country and for civilization has been often
considered in these columns. But we commend to the careful attention of our
readers the following thoughtful little essay, which foretells what we believe
will be the verdict of history
When a ship, after a long and
tedious voyage, is met by head-winds and unfavorable currents as she slowly
approaches her destined haven, a feeling of disappointment and despondency takes
possession of the passengers and the crew, and each one attributes to the
officer of the ship the inevitable and necessary delays and discouragements to
which they are subjected. Instead of looking forward to the near and certain
land to which they are bound they turn their eyes resolutely backward, and
persuade themselves that all the troubles in the past are to be gone over anew,
and that the momentary delay from which they are suffering could have been
avoided had a different course been pursued in some previous part of the voyage.
A few days, however, generally suffice to change all this. The long wished for
land is sighted, certainty takes the place of disappointed hopes, and they feel
with mortification and regret how unjust they have been to the officer whose
every hour and thought has been devoted to their welfare. and who has at length
brought them with safety, and with a prosperous voyage, to the end of their
journey, Long after every other incident of the voyage has faded from their
minds they remember and long to recall the unreasonable and unjust accusations
that a moment of impatience caused them to utter toward one to whom their safe
return home was in is large a measure due.
In just such a situation do we
find ourselves at the present time. The voyage is nearly over ; we can almost
feel the land breeze wafting over the waters, and see the land birds fluttering
around us; our charts and our observations all give us assurance that we are
near the end of our journey; but because we can not see the land and put our
feet upon it, we are disposed to be anxious and captious, and to lay blame on
our faithful and vigilant leader. Let us be more manly and more just. Let us
remember how upright and courageous our President has been in the dark and
anxious days we have passed through. How manfully and persistently he has met
disaster and defeat, always hopeful and always calm in the midst of the greatest
dangers and trials.
It is not of so great importance
to
Mr. LINCOLN'S future fame that he should or should not be elected President
for another term. His great record is written, and can never be effaced. In a
few short months we may be at the end of our great troubles, and, let us hope,
free forever from the anxieties that now beset us. But when that time comes,
when history and tradition repeat beside every fireside in the land the trials
and the dangers and the heroism of each most faithful and noble veteran, then it
will be said " And he, too, never faltered: he marched with us side by side: he
believed in us when so many desponded: he risked all to support and sustain and
reinforce us. We and he worked together with one heart to remove the dark stain
of Slavery from our national honor ; and if we deserve any credit for what we
have done in restoring our land to unity end peace and justice, he with us shall
ever receive a common share."
This is a time which no station
or absence of station can add to or diminish. His work, like that of the most
obscure soldier whose body lies buried under the sod of
Gettysburg or
Antietam,
has been done, and faithfully done, and no act of others can destroy or weaken
or increase its honor. Faithful and consecrated to the service of his country,
his memory, though it were as nameless as that of any private in our armies or
any nurse in our hospitals, will, like theirs, be sweet in the heart of every
true American is long as the humblest hamlet remains to keep up the tradition of
a good citizen. So manly and modest a character, so faithful to every duty, so
forgiving and so generous, with a sagacity so eminent, and exercised with so
much intelligence and such an absence of guile that his strongest enemies and
those of our country have no so ardent wish as to see him replaced in the
position of influence he occupies by some other, any other, man. The
discontinuance of power does not imply with him cessation of influence. To his
successor, whoever he may be or whenever he may come, we can only say, "Walk as
nearly in his steps as you can, and you can not, end you will not in the end,
fail of the support of all loyal hearts. Think as much of the humblest soldier
as of the most distinguished general ; be as just to the interests of the
poorest citizen as to these of the most importunate suitor; be slow to come to a
decision, and slower to change from it; dare to be unpopular in the performance
of imperative duty; set an e ample of calm confidence and religious trust in the
hour of gloom and despondency; and you, like him, shall have it written on your
tombstone and on the hearts of your fellow-countrymen, ' He, too, was worthy to
be an American citizen.'"
It is not our desire in these
lines to urge the merits of party considerations or of partisan success. Our
appeal is to higher and nobler motives, Let us strive to recall
and to cherish the remembrance of
his long and faithful efforts at co-operation with all the highest and best
purposes which have actuated our country in the great and earnest struggle in
which we are engaged. Let us aim to imitate his unfaltering tenacity of purpose
in the attainment for our country of a permanent Union and liberty, worthy of
the traditions into which we were born ; then, indeed, the question of who is to
be our next President will be one which we need not consider with solicitude;
while by such thoughts and such purposes we shall have paid the highest tribute
which a free people are able to bestow upon one who has earned so great a claim
upon our respect and our gratitude. G. C. W.
WANTED, A LITTLE GOOD
SENSE.
ANOTHER friend writes "The party
that went for peace at Chicago has gone to pieces at
Atlanta. But the want of
practical good sense on the part of some of our friends pains me. The real
question at issue is so simple, and the importance of solving it correctly so
immense, that I am surprised alike at the confusion of mind and the failure of
appreciation of the stake among those who are most deeply interested in the
result. Even if Mr. LINCOLN were not, as I believe, the best candidate, he is
now the only possible one for the Union party and surely, such being the case,
personal preferences should be sunk in consideration of the unspeakable evil to
which their indulgence may lead."
A
WORD IN SEASON.
GENERAL Dix has written the
following letter to Mr. WARD HUNT, who had asked to be allowed to use the
General's name as a candidate for Governor of New York :
"HEAD-QUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE
EAST,
NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 5, 1864.
"MY DEAR SIR—I have just received
yours of the 3d instant, and thank you for your kind suggestion. I could not,
however, accept the nomination for Governor it it were tendered to me. I am not,
for that reason, the less earnest in my desire to do all in my power to sustain
the Government in its efforts to put down the rebellion—an object to be
effected, in my judgment, by a steady and unwavering prosecution of the war.
"I am, my dear Sir, truly yours,
"JOHN A. Dix."
General DIX favors " a steady and
unwavering prosecution of the war, not "an immediate cessation of hostilities."
THE
VOICE OF "A MAN."
HON. ISAAC N. ARNOLD, for the
last four years representative in Congress from the Chicago District, recently
withdrew as a candidate for re-election in consequence of a sharp contest among
the Union men. He writes a dignified and manly letter, concluding as follows, in
words and in a spirit which we commend to all those in the Union ranks who are
disposed to indulge their personal griefs:
"In my judgment the next ninety
days will decide the fate of our country. Disguised and covered up as it may be,
it will really be a contest between war for liberty and the Union and a
humiliating peace. It will be a contest between patriotic, self sacrifice and
narrow selfishness, as well as between heroic loyalty and sympathy with
traitors. I need scarcely add that my efforts for the re-election of Mr. LINCOLN
will not be lessened, and that I shall labor, as heretofore, for the utter
destruction of Slavery and the restoration of the Union on the basis of liberty
to all."
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
THE
MILITARY SITUATION.
THE armies of the Union have
never at any period of the war been so favorably situated as they are today.
With Hood's army driven out of Atlanta, and with
Lee's army rendered, by the
judicious disposition of the Federal forces in Virginia, incapable of assuming
the offensive, with reinforcements poured every day by thousands into the
Federal armies, while every day witnesses the diminution of the rebel armies
both by desertion and the inevitable attrition of war, the victory of our
national Government over this shameful rebellion can not be far distant.
According to our Lieutenant-General's estimate the rebel desertions amount to
one regiment per day. Every rebel reverse like the fall of Atlanta multiplies in
a continually increasing ratio the number of these desertions.
General Grant, in
order to encourage rebels to come into our lines, has issued a proclamation
assuring them that they would not be compelled to enter the Federal army, but
would receive free transportation to any point within our lines, The sole
circumstance affording courage to armed rebels is the disposition on the part of
the Chicago
Democratic party to sue to the rebel authorities for peace.
GRANT AND SHERIDAN.
There is no important
intelligence from the Army of the James. There is every reason to believe that
Lee's army behind his intrenchments at Petersburg was reduced to the lowest
possible limit in order to render Early master of the situation in the
Shenandoah Valley. Grant, taking advantage of this depletion in his immediate
front, seized upon the Weldon Road, and has held it with his accustomed
tenacity. At the same time the Federal army in the Valley was reorganized and
reinforced, and Early was obliged to take the defensive. At one time we have a
rumor that Lee is reinforcing Early, and then again that Early is reinforcing
Lee ; but in neither case is there any certainty, Since the engagement at
Berryville on the 3d there has been no action of importance in the Valley. On
the 4th
Mosby captured one of
Sheridan's
ambulance trains of 35 wagons, filled
with wounded.
SHERMAN.
The following letter from
General
Sherman gives the details of the capture of Atlanta:
"ATLANTA, September 7.
"On the 25th of August, pursuant
to a plan of which the War Department had been fully advised, I left the
Twentieth Corps at the Chattahoochee Bridge, and with the balance of the army I
drew off from the siege, and using seine considerable artifice to mislead the
enemy.
"I moved rapidly south, reached
the West Point Railroad near Fairborn on the 27th, and broke up twelve miles of
it. When moving east my right approached the Macon Railroad near Jonesborough,
and my left near Rough and Ready. The enemy attacked the right wing of the Army
of the Tennessee, and were completely beaten.
" On the 31st, and during the
combat, I pushed the left of the centre rapidly to the railroad above, between
Rough and Ready and Jonesborough.
" On the 1st of September we
broke up about eight miles of the Macon Read, and turned on the enemy at
Jonesborough, assaulted him and his lines, and carried them, capturing
Brigadier-General Gorman and about 2000 prisoners, with eight guns and much
plunder. Night alone prevented our capturing all of Hardee's corps, which
escaped south that night.
"That same night, Hood, in
Atlanta, finding all his railroads broken and in our possession, blew up his
ammunition, seven locomotives and eighty cars, and evacuated Atlanta, which, on
the next day, September 2, was occupied by the corps left for that purpose,
Major-General Slocum commanding, we following the retreating rebel army to near
Lovejoy's station, thirty miles south of Atlanta, where, finding him strongly
intrenched, I concluded it would not 'pay' to assault as we already had the
great object of the campaign, viz., Atlanta. Accordingly the army gradually and
leisurely returned to Atlanta ; and it is now encamped eight miles south of the
city, and tomorrow will move to the camps appointed. I am now writing in
Atlanta, so I could not be uneasy in regard to our situation.
"We have as the result of this
quick, and, as I think, well executed movement, 27 guns, over 3000 prisoners,
and have buried over 400 rebel dead, and left as many wounded ; they could not
be removed.
"The rebels have lost, besides
the important city of Atlanta and stores, at least 500 dead, 2500 wounded, and
3000 prisoners, whereas our aggregate loss will not foot 1500,
"If that is not success, I don't
know what is.
(Signed) "SHERMAN,
Major-General." It was Hardee's corps, together with General S. L. Lee's and
Cleburne's commands, which fought the battle of Jonesborough on the rebel side.
The rebel Generals Anderson, Patten, and Cummings were wounded. The capture of
Atlanta renders useless any of the rebel attempts on Sherman's communications.
FARRAGUT.
During the siege of Mobile, and
up to the surrender of
Fort Morgan, August 24, our loss in all was one ship sunk
by a
torpedo, one burned through infraction of orders, and 330 men killed and
wounded, half of whom were killed by drowning or the fire of the enemy. On the
other hand, we took from 1700 to 1800 prisoners, captured the two best vessels
of the enemy, forced them to burn the gun-boat Gaines, and drove the rest of
their fleet beyond the obstructions. Three torts, with one hundred guns of heavy calibre, with all their material, were unconditionally surrendered to us.
The rebel gun-boat Morgan escaped
to Mobile, and the gun-boat Powell was blown up to prevent her falling into our
hands. The United States steamer Oneida suffered more than any other vessel;
Commander J. R. Muianey lost his left arm, The second day after the surrender of
Fort Morgan a torpedo was accidentally exploded in the breach, killing five and
wounding four men of the Seminole, killed two of General Granger's men, and took
off both arms of one of the Metacomet's men.
The pilot of the Hartford was
wounded. Admiral Buchanan was doing well and would not lose his leg. Commander
Murphy of the Selma was wounded and doing well. Commander J. D. Johnston of the
rebel ram Tennessee was in the hospital at Pensacola. The executive officer of
the Tennessee, W. L. Bradford, is a prisoner on the United States frigate
Potomac.
THE
STATE CONVENTION.
The Union State Convention met at
Syracuse on the 7th of September. Hon. Reuben E. Fenton was nominated as
candidate for Governor, and Thomas G. Alvord for Lieutenant-Governor. Horace
Greeley and Preston King were appointed Presidential Electors at large.
THE
ELECTION IN MAINE.
The election in Maine September
12 resulted in the choice of Samuel Cony, the Union candidate, for Governor. The
Union majority is 20,000, a large gain upon that of last year.
ITEMS.
Brigadier-General J. E. Mower has
been promoted to a Major-Generalship.
The Government has no
apprehensions of difficulty with England on account of the seizure of the pirate
Georgia, notwithstanding she had been sold to Portugal. It is a well settled
principle of English maritime law, that belligerent's vessels shall not he
transferred from neutral ports during hostilities between the belligerent
parties.
At the municipal election in
Baltimore, September 6, the Union men carried the city by 450 majority, electing
every candidate in every Ward.
The Democratic State Convention
of Illinois was held in Springfield September 6. Hon. James C. Robinson was
nominated for Governor, and S. Corning Judd for Lieutenant-Governor.
Colonel Thomas Egan, Fourteenth
New York, has been appointed Brigadier-General for bravery in the field, on
General Grant's recommendation.
INTERESTING ITEMS.
THE OLD STYLE AND THE NEW.--The
year used to be reckoned to contain 365 days 6 hours; but, strictly speaking,
the year only contains 365 days, 48 minutes, 48 sec ends. In 1752 there were
eleven days over, and by Act of Parliament, the 2d was called the 13th, and the
reckoning and the true motion made to agree. The new style is called the
Gregorian style, because it was introduced by Pope Gregory, who, at Rome,
introduced it as early as the year 1582, when the vernal equinox fell on the
11th instead of the 21st, and ten days were dropped. The Romans added the day on
leap-year on the 6th of the calends of March, making two sixths, or bis sextus,
and hence the expression Bissextile year, or leap-year. A leap-year is the year
that divides evenly by four, and, consequently, the present year is a leap-year,
when any ladies who feel so disposed have, according to an old saying, the right
to "pop the question." In England, until 1752, we began the year at the vernal
equinox, and to make dates agree with those of other nations, between January
and Lady-Day, our writers used to put two dates thus, February 7,
1708/1709 the bottom date being
that from January the 1st,
and the upper that from the
previous Lady-Day. The Russians still adhere to the old style.
Joy is of itself worth something,
if only that it crowds out something worse before one lays down his heavy head
and sinks into nothingness,
How much authors change their
opinions of their own works according to their time of life is illustrated by
the following anecdote. Baron Haller was in his youth devoted to poetry. His
house was on fire, and to rescue his poems he rushed through the flames; he
contrived to rescue his manuscripts, but ten years after he condemned to the
flames the very poems which he had risked his life to preserve.
THE following anecdote furnishes
a good suggestion to ministers and lecturers who are troubled with inattentive
audiences: At a public meeting held at Antwerp a few days since, one of the
speakers, M. Van Ryswick, was received with such clamor by some of the persons
that he could not obtain a hearing. He accordingly sat down, produced a pack of
cards. and asked one of his neighbors to join him in a game of piquet till the
noise should cease. This humorous expedient had the effect of instantaneously
silencing his opponents.
THE Montreal Herald describes
horrible scene which was recently witnessed in Canada. The courthouse and prison
of St. Scholastique caught fire, the flames spreading with great rapidity. The
prison contained six prisonors—three men and three women. The men were with
difficulty rescued. The women could not be reached. One of them appeared at a
window and piteously implored "Mon Dieu, sanvez nous ! sauvez nous !" To relieve
her was now beyond the power of man. Men, women, and children who were
spectators of this scene fell on their knees, praying the Almighty to pity her.
On the topmost step of a fragile
ladder were the feet of the Rev. M. Barnabe, with hands clasping the iron bars,
imploring the poor creature to prepare to meet her God. Here, at the risk of his
life, be gave the dying creature the last consolation of his Church. Ere it was
completed the black smoke became red, and in it the poor girl fell back to be
neither heard nor seen again. Her mother and sister were victims with her, but
neither of them here seen or heard from the outside; suffocation, no doubt, came
early over them. These three women had been confined for destroying a newly-born
infant.
TOBACCO became fashionable
through
Sir Walter Raleigh, but by the caution he took in smoking it privately
it is clear he did not wish to have the custom imitated. But sitting one day
with a pipe in his month, he inadvertently called for some small-beer. The
fellow coming into the room threw all the liquor into his master's face, and
running down stairs called out, "Help! help! Sir Walter has studied till his
head is on fire, and the smoke bursts out at his mouth and nose."
ABSOLUTE, peremptory facts are
bullies, and those who keep company with them are apt to get a bullying habit of
mind.
YOUNGER, in his "River Angling,"
gives the following hint to persons who are too tenderly inclined to go
a-fishing; "On the falling in of a flood the trout soon perceives, and sets out
on his foray, first on the easy eddies, and sucks in the small flies in
thousands, filling his stomach on dainties to repletion. Cut up a trout of a
pound weight in such a time, and see in his throat and stomach ten thousand blue
midge flies going into a mash among six or eight pars and minnows, and find that
he has also been on greedy as to take your fly or minnow over all ; and then
don't be sorry for having nabbed him, and saved a million more of flies and
small fish, each life as precious as his. From the stomach of a trout of about
the above weight I have cut out six small trouts, pars, or smelts, averaging
five inches long: the one first swallowed digested nearly to the bones, the
last, whole and entire, still stuck in the gullet for lack of capacity in the
stomach equal to the voracity of its nature. This trout took my imitation fly
over and above this gorged bellyful, by which it was caught."
He says also: " I have known two
fishers, each of whom has, at periods more than twenty years apart, met with the
self same occurrence in the very some place. The fish took the bait, and was run
some time from near the head to the foot of the stream, when, by some accident,
the line was broken, or cut on a rock, within a foot or two of his mouth, when
the fisher coolly put on a new tackle and bait, went up and began again at the
end of the cast, and exactly on the same spot, hooked him again with much less
ceremony than at the first, as the fish seized it this last time with great
eagerness, and was run and landed with the first bait—hooks, gut, worms, and
all—hanging in his throat."
THE murder of Mr. Briggs on the
Great Northern Railway in England appears to have rendered the English people
over nervous. A few days ago a Duke was traveling by rail, and the sole occupant
of a first class carriage, when at an intervening station another passenger got
in in a hurry. No sooner did he perceive that there was but one passenger in the
carriage than he called out pretty lustily, " Guard, guard, let me out !" The
train, however, started immediately, and the stranger dropped into his seat,
looking exceedingly nervous, and ventured at length to say, "It's rather an
awkward thing traveling with only one man nowadays." The Duke, whose frank and
open countenance might satisfy the most suspicious, appreciated the joke, but
did not take the advantage of it he fairly might, and replied, good-naturedly,
"Well, if you are not afraid of me I am not afraid of you."
MOST lives, though their stream
is loaded with sand and turbid with alluvial waste, drop a few golden grains of
wisdom as they flow along.
THE latest discovery in
portraiture is an invention styled by the patentee the " Casket or Crystal Cube
Miniature," by which a solid image of your head is, by some development of the
photographic art, seen looking, with a strange, living reality, from out of the
centre of a small cube of crystal, every feature standing out in as perfect
relief as though chiseled by the hands of fairy sculptors.
WE have frequently beard of the
power of the imagination, but the following instance, which lately occurred in
France, affords a novel illustration A respectably dressed man of about fifty
called on a man at St. Etienne, and said, "I am a builder by trade, and in
making my contracts am sometimes obliged to drink rather to freely. Finding
myself lately indisposed in consequence of these excesses I was advised to apply
to M. X---, of Caux, who had, I was told, a secret of sovereign efficacy in such
cases. I followed the recommendation and took the remedy, which consisted of a
white powder done up in small packets; but instead of being cured I find I am
poisoned, and I have been told this morning that the remedy is arsenic. Yes,
Sir," continued the speaker, with great violence, ' I am poisoned, and already
today I have had one violent attack." While speaking his countenance changed,
his breathing became heavy, and throwing himself back in a chair he exclaimed,
"I am going to have another—I am dying—help! help!" The doctor went toward him
and found that he was dead. A postmortem examination proved that the man died
from paralysis of the pectoral "muscles, brought on by violent emotion produced
by a diseased imagination. No trace of poison existed. The white powder was
analyzed, and turned out to be not arsenic, but simply sugar of milk, a
completely harmless substance.
THE poet Milton's house in
Barbican, England, is to be removed for railway purposes. Mr. Dunn, foreman of
the works, writes: "It may be interesting to antiquaries to know, previous to
the demolition of Milton's house in Barbican, that there are relics there in
course of removal which deserve a better fate than to be carried away as
rubbish. The old schoolroom and study were almost entire, but is now partly
taken down. The oak around these apartments is still on the ground. Only forty
panes of glass from the original windows are there. There may be more to
interest collectors of objects of this kind than I am aware of; but, previous to
the utter removal of every atom from the premises, I shall be happy to admit any
party having an interest in the memoir' of Milton."
A CORRESPONDENT of the London
Athenoeum, writing from Naples, gives the following items in regard to
discoveries lately made in Pompeii: "Just two years ago I communicated to you my
good fortune in witnessing, during a visit to Pompeii, the disinterment of a
baker's oven, with its full batch of loaves untouched since the moment, eighteen
hundred years ago, when they were there deposited by the unforeboding baker, for
the sales on that morrow which he was fated never to see. In my present visit I
find myself close upon the track of the discovery, hardly less curious, of
another of the elements of human life—that of an ancient well, with its wavers
still as fresh and sparkling as when, on the day of the great catastrophe, the
aquarius of the house to which it belongs drew from it the supply for the last
meal of the doomed family. The well is in the cellar of a house which has been
very recently excavated, and in which have been discovered many objects of
interest, especially a small but beautiful statue, of which I shall have
occasion to speak later. The well in about sixty-five feet in depth, and still
retains about fifteen feet of water.
"Among the relics of a bakery
preserved in the local museum is one which throws a curious light on the
domestic arrangements of the Pompeian baker, being no other than one of the
dishes which were actually in process of preparation for dinner on the very day
of the catastrophe! Upon the cooking stove in the kitchen was found a stew pan
half filled with ashes, and in the bottom appeared an indurated mass, which
Signor Fiorelli rightly conjectured to have been produced by some of the viands
which lay within the pan, and which, although long since decomposed, had left
their impress on the now consolidated ashes. Acting upon this happy thought, be
applied in this instance the same ingenious process which was so successfully
adopted in reproducing that painfully life like group of human figures described
with such terrible fidelity in one of your former numbers; and the result has
fully justified his anticipations, being an exact fac-simile in bronze of a
young pig, which was being stewed for the family dinner at the very moment when
they were surprised by the stroke of doom.
"In connection with this curious
relic I may mention the discovery of the skeleton of a horse, which, together
with two other skeletons of horses found many year's ago, has, through the
anatomical skill of one of the Members of the Academy, been carefully put
together, and placed in one of the rooms. I have had the curiosity to examine
the 'tooth-marks' of the most recent of these skeletons, and find that the
animal was just five years old at the time of the destruction of the city. All
these horses were small-sized, but of good shape, and of a type still common in
Southern Italy."
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