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CRIMES AND CONTRADICTIONS Of _DANIEL O'CONNELL ESQ ., M . P _., * UAJiJjlJ In a series of letters , addressed to the Irish residiii" in Great Britain , by Patrick _O'Hicoins , Esq . ° Printed and published by W . II . Dyott , No . 24 , North _hing-street , comer of Linen Hall-street , Dublin Prieo one penny each . Also tlie Rev . John Kenton ' s letters : and Mr _O'lTiggins _' _s letters to Lord Elliot , night Key . Dr . Blake , Most Rev . Dr . M'Hale , die ., & a ., & c .
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PURCHASE OF : 160 ACHES OF _LAJTO IN WORCESTERSHIRE , Price c € _8 jl 00 . Forimrticuiars see Mr . O'Connor ' s Letter . A correct engraving copied from tlie Map of the above Estate will appear in tlie Northern Star of Saturday , November the 14 th .
The N011thern Star. Sat0rday, October 81, 18ig.
THE N 011 THERN STAR . SAT 0 RDAY , OCTOBER 81 , 18 iG .
Cliartisim Versus Repeal. Physical Force...
_CliARTISiM versus REPEAL . PHYSICAL FORCE . It is a curious fact , but not the Jess true , that all political parties anxious to preserve their popularity with the people , and at the same time tbeir influence with the middle classes , have been compelled to adopt hot only as much of our principles as may serve this double purpose , but from time to time they have likewise been driven to the adoption of our tactics . Upon the other hand , the wilv have been compelled
to seek the course which led to disunion in our ranks , in order to accomplish the same object in their own , when disunion was desirable or required . Long before Mr . O'Connell threw the apple of discord among the repealers , we announced to our readers that his then mission to Ireland was upon the understanding with the Whig Government that he was to break up and destroy the Repeal movement . We further stated that his measures would
be cunningly devised _, tbat he would be able to throw all the odium consequent upon such a calamity upon those who would be forced into unavoidable opposition , and then denounced as traitors ; but little did we then think that the iock placed in the Chartist course would be the one relied upon by him for a split . Wc mean PHYSICAL FORCE . We , the Chartists , were represented by Mr . O'Connell not only as an impracticable , but a disunited body . Surely , the greatest proof of disunion is to be found in the facility with which a party may be broken up ; and now we shall proceed to contrast the mode resorted to by our moral force accusers , for the purpose of disuniting us and their success , with Mr . O'Connell ' s-resort to the same bugaboo to break up the Repeal ranks and his success .
In 1838 , when Tom Attwood , Douglas , Muntz , Salt , and HONEST JOHN COLLINS , had made a complete physical force tour of Scotland , recommending the establishment of rifle clubs , and offering old muskets for sale , and when , upon Attwood ' s return to Birmingham , he told two hundred men in our presence , that if the first appeal from one million was unheeded , he would stamp , and three million voices , backed by as many stout English arms , would respond and compel obedience . When honest John recommended the arrest of all the magistrates and aristocracy as hostages ; when Lovett told us that the . only way to insure good laws was by breaking had ones ; when Henry Vincent was convicted of the most inflammatory physical force language ;
when the enthusiastic Beaumont and Dr . Taylor reviled us for declaring at Glasgow and Edinburgh that we would rather bear any load of suffering than be the cause of one drop of blood being shed , and when the wild enthusiasm of Chartism had induced many of its ardent young advocates , in the midst of oppression and heat of discussion , which iu their own cooler moments they would have regretted , then it was that parson Brewster , John Fraser and Abraham Duncan proposed tbe celebrated Carlton Hill moral force resolutions—resolutions by which they hoped to sever the philosophical from the wild , reservingfor the trickster and truckling all the force and power which the destruction of a bugaboo could secure for them .
Fortunately , however , for the English Chartists , honest ardour and enthusiasm triumphed over cunning philosophy , and the rock intended as our destruction proved a fatal barrier in their course . The very most inflammatory and violent , glad of an opportunity to skulk from the danger that they had created , abandoned the cause that they had dishonoured , and clung , with the hope of forgiveness , to the new idol created by the philosophers . The effect ' of such a schism threatened danger for a season , until the veiled purposes of hypocrisy were seen hy all . No sooner had they achieved their first triumph , than the few promoters themselves were split into sections , stoutly contending for an
ascendancy less galling than that which they presumed they had destroyed . This wicked course failed in England , and , notwithstanding the enthroned power of the Liberator , it will fail in Ireland . No one section of the Chartist body ever proclaimed physical force as a weapon to be used offensively . Many attempts were made to provoke us into an unqualified denunciation of the principle ; but while we repudiated violence as a means of achieving power , which but required the concentration of all our moral energies to accomplish , we never did , and we never shall , confess ourselves slaves , by denying the right of the oppressed to shake off their fetters , by the same means by which they have been imposed upon them .
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While the tempest raged we held to this principle , and encountered no small amount of odium . DaDiel O'Connell was the loudest in his denunciation ofthe physicial force Chartists ; and now we proceed to show the striking analogy that exists between him and his policy , and the moral philosophers and their scheme . We have shown that they were the first to propound and circulate the physical force principles
in England and Scotland , while in 1843 every post teemed with the valiant effusions of the physical force Liberator . When surrounded by his battalions of infantry and cavalry , upon the bill of Tara ofthe Kings , after boasting of the amount of physical force at his command , lie proclaimed the Union a nullity , a parchment fiction , aud , amidst national applause exclaimed
" Morally , if we can , physically , if we | must . ' Such an announcement from such a quarter must have inspired the young and enthusiastic with increased ardour and zeal ; their country had been proclaimed as a wilderness , made desolate by tbe tyranny of the Saxon oppressor ; her seven centuries' grievances were burnt upon the warm hearts of those who panted for liberty , and , as a natural consequence , new and ardent disciples were roused to new and ardent inspirations . In the midst of war proclamations he invoked that tranquillity which he declared was essential to his purpose , but the prospect of which he had destroyed . This was the origin of the mere notion of the resort to physical force being justified under any circumstances , and the national valour soon rallied round the
newly-erected standard . Thus we prove beyond controversy , that the Liberator was the originator and propounder of physical-force doctrines , while , like our moral philosophers , he uses the enthusiasm of his young disciples as a justification for the desertion of his principles . We may be told that he has not deserted those principles , because he still bellows " Repeal 1 " as
lustily as ever ; but we cannot recognise ibe distinction between the general who deserts his army and he who surrenders his positidn to the intrigue of an enemy . The latter is O'Connell ' s case . He has weaKened . his position for the purpose of strength _, ening the Whigs , and his next move will be to abandon the cause upon the pretext of the weakness which he himself has produced . What has been the incessant declaration of tbe Liberator ? Has it not been
that ENGLAND'S WEAKNESS IS IRELAND'S OPPORTUNITY ; and do we not find him fostering that very weakness as the instruments of Ireland ' s oppression . The quondam liberal press of Ireland , without an exception , teems with abuse of Whiggery and Russell , while the very mountains reecho the denunciation and yet the Liberator would cunningly draw the distinction between officials acting under Whig orders , and the Whigs who give the orders . The Irish were promised Ireland , and are starving and in sorrow ; while we read the
damning , galling , bitter fact , that the Liberator ' s second son , Morgan O'Connell , who sold the representation of Meath for _JG 800 a-year , has heen this week promoted to an office with a salary of £ 1500 a-year as the purchase-money of bis father's sale of that country that has so confided , so supported , so bled , and so paid for his promised devotion . Will this act open the eyes of the yet sceptical ? Will this convince the nice and scrupulous about the Liberator ' s honour ? that England ' s weakness is Ireland ' s increased oppression and her Liberator ' s increased peculation .
Is this not some substitute for the graceless rejection of a tribute which poverty marred . It is but the second windfall , and before another harvest will glad the eyes of the starving , his fleshpot will be filled with tlie wages of corruption . Well may lie renounce the title of 'Liberator' at Fermoy _. and , rathe r than he should go nameless , we would recommend him to assume in its stead that of Patricide . 'He is
a bad old man , and notwithstanding the power of his charmed name , the very same cause which led to the destruction of moral force treachery in England , will lead to the destruction of the same bugaboo in Ireland . This consoles us , for it is a consolation to think that those who have been dragooned into the justification of a denounced principle , are daily gaining strength , while its propounder is daily becoming weaker and more exposed .
The Press. Prom The Establishment Of The...
THE PRESS . Prom the establishment of the Northern _Stai ' i which is within a fortnight of nine years , down to the present time , we have ever opened its columns to fair strictures upon our policy , our conduct , and our actions . There are some who have felt aggrieved that we have not surrendered them to abuse of ourselves without provocation . We always have , and we trust we always shall , make a proper distinction between those acts of public men in which the success or injury of our principles may be
involved , and those of individuals acting a mere capricious part upon their own responsibility or whim . With these feelings we cheerfully give insertion to a remonstrance of our Somers Town friends against that portion of one of our articles of last week , in which we stated our grief and sorrow at the appointment of Mr . Wagstaffe , as one of the Local Registration Committee of St . Pancras . Our friends very fairly set forth the qualifications and pretensions of Mr . Wagstaffe , by which they would establish his fitness for that office . We ask our friends , whether or no they are amongst those who think that such pretensions and qualifications
constitute a Chartist . We know of but three political names , namely , that of Chartist , Whig and Tory . Our friends ask us , if such and such declarations as those made by Mr . Wagstaffe , can justify us in designating him as a Whig ? We ask , in return , whether such declarations are sufficient to constitute him a Chartist ? We are ready to admit that the Convention from which the public meeting derived the power of electing its own officers was supreme in the delegation of such power , while we are not prepared to surrender our right of canvassing the acts of those who exercise the delegated power or even of those who delegate it .
When the Convention delegated the power , it naturally did so with the impression , and upon the understanding , that it would be used confovmably to Chartist rules , and advantageously for the Chartist cause ; and hence the question , the sole question , for our consideration is , whether or no that Convention for a moment anticipated that any other than professed , unquestionable and avowed Chartists would be elected to an office so important as that of the arrangement of the machinery by which we hoped to ensure an unequivocal
representation of the principles of Chartism . We would ask our friends , whether or no the election of a committeeman should not , as far as principle goes , be received by the country at large as a test of his qualification to represent a Chartist constituency according to the terms and principles we have laid down . We would ask them , whether the kindliest acts of Mr . Wagstaffe , which we never intended to dispute or deny , and his equivocal professions of a desire to extend the suffrage , would be such a declaration of principles as would recommend him to a
Chartist constituency ? Our friends are sot to presume that we entertain any , the slightest , personal hostility to Mr . Wagstaffe , for , on the contrary , their character of him inclines us to esteem him beyond others of his class ; but there are other qualifications necessary to constitute his fitness as a manager of our most important affiairs . If upon the other hand we are told that his neighbours are aware that he is not a Chartist but hope to . use him for Chartist purposes , we answer , such course would be unworthy towards Mr . Wagstaff aad disgrace-
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ful upon the Chartist body on the one hand , while we assure them , upon the other hand , that Mr . Wagstaffe would he much more likely to use them . We have heard many good Chartist sayings , such as " God helps them that help themselves" — " He who is not for us is against us" — " If our work is to be done we must do it ourselves , " and so forth . Again , we will take the liberty of canvassing this delegated power from the source from whence it was received , namely , from the Convention . We ask , then , would Mr . Wagstaffe , upon the qualification
set forth for him , have been a fit delegate to elect upon that Convention ? Would he be considered a fit person to act upon the Central Committee ? Would he be considered a candidate sufficiently qualified to command the support of a Chartist constituency ? And if he would not be qualified for any of these offices , then we ask , is the delegated power of Chartism lo be frittered away in its transfer ? Because we contend for it , that a person who is not qualified t <* . serve in any of those capacities , is
insulted hy being nominated to serve for any inferior purpose . So far from objecting to Mr . Wagstaffe personally , we should be rejoiced to hear that he had fully _qualified himself by an unequivocal declaration of Chartist principles . The duty which we have now set Chartists is the highest and most important they have ever been engaged in , and consequently more circumspection and jealousy is required in its discharge . Let us suppose , then , that Manchester had established a central committee for Chartist
purposes , and that the several towns iu Lancashire had appointed local committees to jict in concert with the central committee , would any town in Lancashire elect other than an unequivocal Chartist to serve as a committeeman , or would the central committee act in _concert with any town that had done so ? We confidently say , No . And what Chartism looks for is a defined , clear , unequivocal
representation of its own principles through its own avowed members . Where principle is concerned there should be no nice delicacy as to individuals . Chartism has suffered much already for its punctilious deference to middle class bashfulness . We have been too fond of hugging a bit of respectability , while in no one instance have we ever derived a particle of benefit from its co-operation .
We are pleased to find that our friends approve of the article > hich was damned by the selvage , while it appears strange that they should have approved its tenor , which went to establish what struck us as the error of their course , and still defend the error itself . However , as good feeling is actually indispensable to the success of our cause , we can point out the most simple remedy hy which the errorof the offending party may be established . Upon our part , we protest against the qualification set forth in the remonstrance of our friends being received as the
Chartist test . We protest for ourselves against the election of any save Chartists to serve upon Chartist Committees . Upon the other hand , our friends declare that Mr . Wagstaffe is not a Whig , we are sure he is not a Tory and therefore , a natural conclusion is , that he must be a Chartist . Well then , what could be more consolatory to tbe whole Chartist body than such an announcement , and thus our friends have a pleasing duty to perform in receiving and communicating the intelligence that Mr . Wagstaffe is a Chartist . None will more cheerfully hail the announcement than ourselves , and none will more respectfully apologise for the high offence offered to
to Mr . Wagstaffe in designating him a Whig . This remedy , this easy remedy , is in the hands of our friends—they may avail themsevles of it , by putting the simple question to Mr . Wagstaffe , " ARE YOU A CHARTIST ? If you are , YOU ARE FOR US , if you are not , you are against us . If you are for us , we hail your co-operation ; if you are against us , you must see and confess the impropriety of relying upon your services , as men do not usually rely upon the co-operation of their foes . " While the men of St . Pancras exercise their legitimate right of canvassing our acts , they must never attempt to deprive us of the right to canvase theirs .
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RENEWED AGITATION FOR THE TENHOURS' BILL . TIIE FACTO _RY-KING AGAIN IN THE FIELD ! From the resolutions given below , it will be seen that the short-time delegates have resolved to open , what we trust will prove the last triumphant campaign for the attainment ofthe Ten Hours' Bill . It will be seen that the delegates have invited the co-operation of their former trusty champion , RicnARD Oastlek , Esq ., the factory-workers "King ? We understand that Mr . Oastler has nobly con- '
sented to iorsake his retirement , and again take his stand upon the platform , as the unrivalled advocate ofthe rights of the factory-workers . Mr . Oastler will be in Huddersfield , and will address the first oi a series of meetings , on Tuesday week next , November 10 th . He will spend three weeks in Yorkshire , taking part at three meetings weekly , after which he probably will visit Lancashire , and may extend his tour to Scotland , This announcement will be all-sufficient to arouse our northern readers , who will be prepared to give the Factory King that hearty welcome which he , and the holy cause he advocates , so well deserves .
TEN HOURS' BILL . A meeting of delegates from the Short Time Committees of the West Riding of Yorkshire , was held on Monday , at the Royal Hotel , Brighouse ; Mr . J . Rawson , chairman of the Yorkshire Central Committee , in the chair ; when the following resolutions were unanimouely agreed to : — 1 . That it appears desirable to this meeting of _delegates that a course oi public meetings should be _holdeuin the manufacturing towns of the West Hiding , to permit another expression of public opinion on the Ten Hours ' question ; and to show the government that the mill operatives have not abated in their ardour and determination to seeure a legislative ten hour regulation for the young and female portion of the factory-workers .
2 . That as it is probable that Parliament will assem . ble in tbe ensuing month of November , such public meetings should be arranged for without delay , so that the honourable member charged with the conduct of the Ten Hours' Bill through Parliament may feel his bands strengthened at the outset of what we fondly hope is to be the last parliamentary campaign . 3 . That , to enable John Fielden , Esq ., lI . P ., to state to the House of Commons tbe unchanged opinion and unabated determination of the factory hands never to rest until they get the Ten Ilour * Bill , itis desirable that ho should attend the said meetings , to " " see with his own eyes and hear with his own ears , " and for that purposche be hereby invited to accede to cur requeBt .
* i . That this meeting of delegates , knowing of thestrong desire that exists in the manufacturing districts to hold council once more with the originator of the present ten hours' movement , Richard Oastler , Esq ,, and believing that it would conduce materially to the success of tbe Ten Hours ' cause , if the factory workers had that gen . tlemen among them on this occasion , it be resolved to invite him to attend the said meetings ; and that tbe Secretary be instructed to communicate the wish of the delegates to Messrs . Fielden and Oastler , and arrange for then ; convenience , 5 . That tbe Secretary be instructed to communicate with each committee as to the time of their respective pub . lie meeting , when he has communicated with Messrs , Fielden and Oastler .
C . That the best thanks of this meetiDg are due and hereb y tendered to Lord Ashley for his admirable letter to the recent meeting in Bradford attended by Lord Morpeth ; and for his conduct in declining to attend on that occassion , when tbe measure to which he is devoted was excluded from discussion or comment . 7 . That tho thanks of this meeting are also hereby tendered to Mr . William Walker , of Bradford , for his vary proper bearing and conduct on the same oeoasion . 8 . That while this meeting hails the efforts made at
Bradford , under the au 3 pices of Dr . Scoresby and Lord Morpeth , to ameliorate the social condition of the female faotory workers , as one deserving every encouragement , and as indicative of a far different feeling on this subject than obtained at the commencement ofthe ten-hours agitation ? yet * the delegates regret that the promoters of the said movement did not add ' short time ' to their praiseworthy objects ; for _withoul time to " instruct und enjoy , all means of instruction and enjoyment are _somparnti _' _.-elj " «(» vUue » s ,
What Is To Be Done With Ireland ? The Ca...
WHAT IS TO BE DONE WITH IRELAND ? The calamity by which the sister island is at pre . sent afflicted , has , as we have before obser ved , not been unaccompanied by beneficial results ; Among others , we are inclined to reckon the expo _, sure of the hollow and empty quack who has so long lived on the wretchedness of his fellow coun . trymen . Had O'Connell possessed any practical knowledge , or any real interest in their welfare , this would have been the time for the ex hibition of both . _^
From the vantage ground he occupies , he might have dictated terms to both the Government and the landlords , and , " out ofthe nettle" danger have plucked the flower safety . " But , instead of calml y and practically setting himself to work to meet the crisis with appropriate measuers , he is found writing empty and inflated epistles in laudation of the Whigs , abuse of the officials who , ' at the present trying moment , have the practical administration of relief , and keeping up the old quarrel with " Young Ireland" on tbe hypocritical pretext of " physical force . " In the speech which he delivered at Fermoy , there is not a single idea or proposition -worth
the paper it was printed on . Nothing but the old , hacknied themes , tbe old , worn-out proposals and machinery , deputations , committees , debates , " words , words , words . ' ' Ireland has been crammed with such windy food too long ; she needs , and must have , clear-headed men and practical measures , which will relieve her population from dependence on the potato ; which will give her peasantrypossession of the soil on just and equitable terms , and which will , by the introduction of a better tenure , remove the standing disgraceful anomaly , of a people starving iu a land capable of supplying food to four times its present population .
Such salvation as this , however , is not likely to come from the mouthing mountebanks at Conciliation Hall , whose only object seems to be the puffing of themselves into a factitious political importance , in order that they may afterwards make merchan . dize of it , and hoist themselves into well-paid places . O'Connell , like Louis Philippe , is particularly affectionate to his sons , and is making good use of his influence with the Whigs in their behalf . His son , Morgan , has just jumped into an office of £ 1 , 500 a-year , and , in short , the Irish people are
converted into political capital by a grasping , rapacious set of adventurers , who thrive upon the miseries and grow fat on the famine ofthe very people they pretend to befriend . This , however , is now becoming plain , even to the Irish themselves . The buffoonery and trash of the " Liberator" no longer draws the cash it used to do . The rent " grows small by degrees and beautifully less , " and though this may in part , at least , be attributed to the poverty of the people , it is also , no doubt , very much caused by their eyes being opened to the real character of the man who has so long misled them .
The famine has put other pretenders to the character of popular and practical statesmen to the test , besides O'Connell . The Whigs bave certainly not been lucky in their government of Ireland , what little has been done of a judicious and decided character is more owing to the decision and promptitude of the Lord Lieutenant than to the Cabinet ; So far as its measures are concerned , they were and _, are ludicrously inadequate to the occasion . It is their ill fortune to have their heads bewildered with the mischievous crotchets of Political Economy ; and in the very midst of the awful distress which prevails , they are found gravely debating whether it should be relieved by the most obvious and ready means for fear that these means are not in accordance with the dogmas of a nonsensical and
pernicious theorv . r The obligations of the Irish people to the Whig government , very forcibly remind us of the Irish squire ' s obligation to his farrier , and of which he was thus reminded— " To curing your honour ' s horse till he died . " Such appears to he the general view of their conduct entertained in Ireland . The press and the people call loudly for the restoration of Sir Robert Peel to power . They have had enough of Whig imbecility , and are for tbe return to office of a statesman , who showed by his measures last year , and his speech on resigning office , that he
understands the nature of Ireland ' s malady , and has courage enough to apply radical remedies . In tbe event of his again taking office , he will find the way to the application of such remedies , has been much smoothed by theoccurrenceof this severe and afflictive calamity . It has driven writers and thinkers back on first principles . The horrible spectacle which the unhappy sister country presents , compels a dissection of the causes by which it has been produced . Such a state of society—if society it can be called—cannot longer be permitted to exist , no matter who or what the classes may be , whose supposed interests it sub
serves . This conviction is so strong that , as we remarked last week , the leading Journals have come out on the subject ofthe laud , with articles , which a short time ago would have been denounced as revolutionary . The Chronicle , in reply to the proposition of extensive emigration put forward by the Marquis of Westtneath and other landlords , reiterates its proposal to give " Ireland to the Irish" in reality . It . urges all those objections to compulsory and extensive emigration , which have so often been stated in this paper . To make the Irish ( savs our
contemporary ) work , they must have what makes their Celtic brethren , the French peasantry , work , and those of Tuscany , of the self-indulgent aud luxurious south . They must work , not for employers , but for themselves . Their labour must not be for wages only , it must be a labour of love—the love which the peasant feels for the spot of land from which no man's pleasure can expel him , which makes him a free aud independent citizen of the world , and in which every improvement which his labour can effect belongs to his famil y , as their permanent inheritance . "
Here is the true lever by which to raise , not only the population of Ireland , but of all others , in the scale of existence . « They must work , not for employers , but for themselves . " " We thank thee , Jew , for that word . " it is , to be sure , a little opposed to the " political economy" of which the Chronicl e has been a long and consistent exponent . But it is never too late to mend or learn , and seeing how aptly our new pupil is taking lessons from the _Slar and the Chartists , we cannot but pat him kindly on the head . We have also to enrol the Times in the list of disciples of the philosophy and political economy of the Star , it
savs—Before we can take the Irish landowner's view of " giving encouragement to emigration , to people who " are too closely packed at home for their own com-• 'fort and convenience , " we must first be satisfied aa to the facts . la there a larger population in Ireland than the land , if properly dealt with , could support ? All evidence is to the contrary . Where the land is properly cultivated , are the labourers " too closely packed , " or do thev complain of want
of '' eomfort and convenience ? " All evidence sayJ "O . — We protest against the consequences of the laud of Ireland not having been properly dealt with being borne wholly by the poorest of the Iris * people . —To compel the peasantry to crowi into the holds of emigration ships , and submit to aa unavavoidable exile , would , in effect , " create > " new felony for tlie benefit of Lord _Wesimcatlf _* - " order . "
The discussion on this subject is now fairly raised , never to be stilled again mull the land of Ireland is devoted to the support of its people , free from •¦* rapacious grasp of a band of monopolists , whose fancied individual mterest now dooms it to an artificial sterility , and keeps extensive tracts lying - " primeval waste . This , we repeat , is the true _vvaj to give IRELAND TO THB IRISH *
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 31, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_31101846/page/4/
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