The Polk County signal., September 14, 1868, Image 2

A
STORAGE! STORAGE!
Johnson). In any Other government the Constitution and the Uriioh. I f we costs the government annually nearly The State Senate—How Shall
It be Organised!
be prosperity, progress, liberty, God than ours, usurpation so flagrant and would accomplish that for which we half the whole sum required to carry
W HEAT BOtlQHT
wild us misfortune, reaction, despot­ fundamental would have led to revolu­ fought—if, in short, we would save the on the entire governmental machioeiy
DOTY
A CO., SOLA, HAYS T H U S
In
view
of
certain
contingencies
it
ism ! (Applause.)
tion. In ours they can be overthrown Union and restors to those States their
m
splendid
new
The radicals attempt to smooth the hy the people at the ballot box. The liberties and their laws, we must unite under Mr. Buchanan. Then what has become a question with some, just R
W ARE
hideous visage of this reconstruction, people this Fall will decide whether with the Democracy. (Applause.)— amount of eheek must it require to as­ how the State Senate, which meets to­
Completed and are prepared to store an indefi­
by telling us who served in the army the radical party shall retain or surren­ We must not ask of men what they sert that the government hosts less than
nite quantity of Wheat, Oats, Barley, etc.,eto.,
day,
will
be
organized?
The
Demo­
that it is indispensable to prevent the der the powers it has thus used for the have been, but what they are— not it did under Buchanan?
and are paying the highest
crats, on a proper roll-call, have a ma­
Deuiooratio party from coming into destruction of our liberties through our who loved and defended the Union, but
CASH F B I C S
power, lest they should reverse the re­ form of national government. If the who now defends it (Applause.) In
jority
of
three
members
in
that
body.
for
W
H
E
A
T
and O A T S .
Political Correspondence.
Their facilities for receiving and sacking grain
sults uf the war and repudiate the na­ appeal could he taken so as to present the path which the Democratic party
But if, as is claimed by some, the old arc unsurpassed anywhere iu the State.
tional debt. I t is to prevent repudia* the living issues between the parties, treads to day, we see the footsteps of E ditor S ignal :—
Steamboats land regularly alongside of
clerk may call the roll, and if Secretary
tion ot the national debt that a scheme free trorn the rubbish of dead questions, Washington, of Madison, ot Governor
their Ware House at all seaeons of tho year.
Let me ask my radical friends. “ In May has dropped the names of Judge
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must be devised by which the majority who can doubt the result!' I f we Hamilton, and all the sages and heroes
voting
the
radical
ticket,
why
do
you
of the white electors of the States shall could present a candidate who would so ofthe Revolution—of Webster, of Clay,
Stout and Col. Dribblesby, both mem'*
C. V. T B A T O lk
J . K. G IL L.
not be permitted to rule them. I f the thoroughly uuite the oppoucuts of rad­ of Andrew Jackson—(applause,) and vote it ?" The party came into power bers elect under the law, from the roll,
calamity of national repudiation and ical rale as General Grant’s supporters of all those giants of the generation with the country prosperous and happy;
G I L L 4c V E A T O IÏ,
and has substituted the man Sels from
dishonor be really impending over this — (Hisses)--we would give to that just gone before us.
And while it
HOLES ALS ASD BETAIL DSALSBf
Republic, the feared event will not be candidate niue tenths of the votes of keeps that line of march, and bears al­ out of dabt and at peace with all the Grant county and retained on the said
long postponed by devising in the inter­ the electoral college. (A pp’ause )— ways iu view the Constitution and the world. I t has fastened upon the roll, the names of both Dolph and Pow­
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est of a sectional party a scheme of re­ The strength of the radicals lies, uot Union, we cuu follow it with pride and country a debt so heavy that the people ell from Multnomah—one of whom School B ooks,
construction which violates the Con* iu their cause, but in the divisions of unfaltering footsteps.
M usic Books,
‘
groan under the payment of the inter­ must go out according to a law of the
B la n k Books,
stitution and the fundamental princi- their adversaries. The war was a sue
est ; it has destroyed the Union of the radicals’own making—why, the Senate,
S ta tio n e ry ,
pies of our Government, breaks the cess y not a failure.
It settled the
and F a iiey Goods*
pledges of the war to the soldiers, of doubtful question of secession against She JJlfcklj) j3o!k irautj £ijnal. States, and established in one third ol for the purposes of an organization, will Our goods were purchased in the East, by our­
them the most arbitrary and oppressive be a tie. Should law and justice pre. selves, and we feel confident that we can give
infinitely more sacred obligation than the right to secede. I t settbd, too, the
the money debt, cripples every industry subject of slavery. (Appluuse.) These, OFFICIAL PAPER OF POLK CO. military despotism; it has destroyed vail, Judge Stout, who holds a certifr perfect satisfaction to all who may favor os
with their patronage, both as -to price and
of the land, and while reducing one however, were unsettled questions in
the
sacredness
of
the
ballot
box
and
quality.
cate of election, and Col. Dribblesby,
MONDAY MORNING, SEPT. 14, 1868. -
half the ability of every taxpayer to pay 1804, and were supposed to enter iuto
State street, Salem, Oga.
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made
popular
elections
a
farce;
it
has
contestant at the last session for the
hia taxes, doubles the amount of them, the political conflict of that year.—
created thousands of offices for the sole seat usurped by the drunken vagabond
the inseparable and sole aim of which whether fortunately or unfortunately.
BAML H B A D R tC B .
GKO. A . BO SS.
reconstruction is to secure the contin I think unfortunately, the pas-ions of
purpose of giving positions of profit to Stearns, will both take their seats at
GEO. A EDES A C O .,
tied supremacy of a party which at this the war and of that political conflict of
its votaries; it has made bribery thepow once and either Dolph or Powell will
SALES! IS
•day does not repreacut one third of the 1864, are not as dead as those issues in
er
which
enacts
laws,
and
perj
ury
the
in-
withdraw, leaving the Senate as the D
white people of this nation. Thank which they played their part. Upon
For
President,
strumentality
which
acquits
oraconvicts
God, fellow citizens, the faith of a Re­ them rest all the hopes of the radicals,
people dictated it should be. The D rug*,
ifftediclne»,
public, like the Union of the States, and all the fears of the frieuds of the
criminals. And this is little of what course we would advise, in view of
P a in ts
rests secure in the hearts of the people. Constitution and the Uuion. Housing
it has done, to say nothing of ¿be fur. Se.-retary May’s ringing in and ringing
OP NEW YORK.
O ils
(A p p lau se) The vast majority of the slumbering passioas ofthe war, and
ther
evils
with
which
it
proposes
to
af
AND DYE STUFFS,
For Vice President,
out dodge, would be th is :
them, of all parties, will preserve and led on by one of its foremost Generals,
flict the couutry. Then, why will you
defend it, as they did the Union. But the radicals hope to fight over again
Let the 13 Demooratio members At the Old Stand formerly occupied by M. R.
F
R
A
N
K
P
.
B
L
A
I
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,
COX A CO.,
if anything could shake or destroy the the conflict of 1864. Shall they be
vote that ticket? Now, would it not hold a caucus and agree upon a plan of
UNION BLOCK, Com m ercial Street,
OF MISSOURI.
national credit, it would he to have the permitted to do it 1 (“ No,” no.") I
be better for you to lay aside your action, proceed to the Senate Chamber
public creditors flock all into one party, wish I could leave it to this Convention
SA LEM , O REG O N.
prejudices and consult your better and, in conjunction with the nine re.
FOR P R E S ID E N T IA L ELECTORS,
and under the panoply of the national to answer. Another Convention must
to country trade.
judgm ent; to act independently and for publican members, proceed to organize A liberal discount made
honor seek to perpetuate the power of answer that question. It is for the
GEO.
A. EDES,
8. F. CHADWICK, of Douglas County.
SAML. HEADRICK.
that party at the cost of the established Democratic Convention, by its choice of
the
best
interests
of
the
country
?
You
the Senate by the appointment of a
JOHN BURNETT, of Benton County.
Constitution and the liberties of the leaders, to decide what shall be the
want
taxes
reduced;
you
want
their
temporary President, Secretary and SELLING OFF 8ELUNB OFF!!
JA 8. H. SLATER, of Union County.
States in the nation.
battle grouud ; and, in short, whether
burdens equally distributed: you want Sergeant at arms, under whose tempo,
M IT C H E l , Ac R O S E S D O R F ,
Now, gentlemen, it is not alone for the Democracy shall triumph on living
the Union of the States preserved and rary administrations a permanent organ­
INDEPENDENCE,
driving ten States out of the Union, issues or be ruuted on deud ones (ap­
A Specious Plea.
the
liberties
of
the
people
perpetuated
I
L
L
SELL
THEIR ENTIRE STOCK
and the destruction of the liberties of plause), whether the radicals shall be
ization can be effected independently of
The Unionist has the bald faced ef­ forever. You know the radical party
one third of the people of this country, tried for what they are doing, or the
Sam May’s roll and the “ old Secretary,” o j C lothing ,
that wc complain of the radical party. Democracy for what they did or failed frontery to assert that the current civil has uniformly acted in direct opposi­
D ry Goods,
when the body will be ready for busi.
By prosecuting these unconstitutional to do four years ago.
Boots and Shoes,
expenses ot the Goyernment will be less tion to these things; you know it has
designs, they have, moreover, funda­
Carprtiny
Gentlemen, the records of the Adju­ for the year to come than were the ex­ been actuated by no other motive than ness. I f it is true that the Secretary of
mentally changed our form of govern­ tant-General's office in Washington
Crocker u,
State has dropped the names of Messrs.
a n d Notions ai
ment, by Congress usurping most of the show that 2,670,000 men were enrolled penses per year under Buchanan!— the perpetuation of party power, the Stout and DribtJesby, his object is ob­
great faculties and powers confided to in the armies of the Union from the be­ Think of i t ! The highest figure of enslavement of the laboriug classes,
PO R T L A N D P R IC E « !
the President by the Constitution.— ginning to the end of the war. Of annual expenditure ever reached prior and the downfall of Republican forms vious enough, and he has thereby for­ For the next
feited decent respect at the hands ol
They took from him the command of that number, making a deduction for
N I N E T Y DAYS.
to
1861
was
sixty-six
million
dollars.
of
government
on
this
continent.
Then
the army, which the Constitution gives re-enlistment, two millions will repre­
the majority of the Senators.
Being obliged to Refurnish our Store, befora
to him, and confided the command ot sent the number of men from first to The interest on the republican debt will you not cut loose from it, and by
winter sets in, and h*viug un time to move our
these in the Southern States to Gener­ last actually in the service. Less than alone now amounts to over o n e so doing throw your influence with that
G e n . E w in g s G r e a t S p e e c h . —We goods, we will sell at the aforesaid rates,
charge made for showing goods, so call
al Grant and five District Commanders. three hundred thousand died on the HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION DOL­ (arty, upon the success of which, de­ print in this issue the great speech and No learn
the price*
(Hisses.) By this bold act of usurpa­ battle field and in the hospitals. A lit­
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M liCHEL A ROSENDORF.
pends the welfare, the prosperity, and deliverod by Maj. Gen. Ewing in tha
tion, whose boldness strikes the milita­ tle over twenty thousand, perhaps, have LARS ! The Unionist says that the
ry mind, t)iey have converted to radi­ died from wounds received, or in sick amount appropriated for the civil ex­ the happiness of the people, and the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Convention in
calism a large part of the officers of the ness incurred in the service, or from penses of the government for the cur­ Union of States. Then vote down rad­ New York. We direct the special
regular army, and made them the the casualities of ordinary life; leaving rent year is only $106,000,000. icalism, and when victory perches upon attention of repub licsns to this honest
A TTO R N EY A N D C O U N S E L O R A T
willing instruments of their despotism. 1,500,000 present voters who fought
LAW ,
Did that paper know there was a trick the standard of Democracy, the glori­ expose ofth e principles and tendencies
(Voices, “ Not m any/') The regulars, under the flag in the war for the Union.
Salem , Oregon.
1 am talking about, aud not all of them. It is not assuming too much—no, nor in this “ estimated ” expenses. Thereis ous sun of liberty will again rise, to of the radical party. No person can
ILL practice in all the Courts of Record
They took lrom the President the pow­ enough—to say that this Convention a presidential election pending and it give life and warmth to the Republic. object that this speech is the etnana*
and inferior Courts of this State.
er of removal, which the Constitution represents fully ouc half of those sol­ behooves the powers that be to make
tion of a “ rebel copperhead.” Gen. Office, iu Watkiuds A Co’s Brick, up stairs.
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confides to him alone, prohibiting him diers. (Voices— “ More than one
Ewing has always been opposed to the
as good a showing as possible, and
even from removing the Cabinet officers, half,” “ Two thirds," “ Three fourths."
W e overheard a republican in the
F arm ers’ {«tore—
the adjutants, through whom he gives I do not believe one third of the per­ hence the one hundred and six million streets of Dallas the other day beratiug Democracy— never voted with them iu
his life—has been a republican ever
orders and receives reports.
They sons who served in the Union army dodge. Congress might just as well,
M O N EY S A V E D I
strip off the power of pardon by a and navy have to this day made up while it was about it, only appropriated the “ copperheads ” for wanting the since that party was organized—fought
sweeping hill of pains and penalties, in­ their minds to vote for General Grant. one hundred aud six dollars. That c «n Freedmen’s Bureau abolished. In or­ with honorable distinction during the
LOOK A T T H IS I
flicting the punishment of total depri­ (“ No,” “ no.” ) But to make the es­
der to impress upon his hearers the
vation of all right to hold office on al­ timate safe, I say that this Convention all be fixed up during a future session. enormity of the proposition, he ex late war and was enthusiastic in his r i U l E LARGEST AND BEST STOCK O r
support of many measures of Mr. Lin­
most all white men of the South, not­ represents at least one half of these 1,- “ Deficiency bills ” rushed through
withstanding the pardons of the Presi­ 5U0.UU0 soldiers who are now voters.— would make matters all right after the claimed : “ I f that Bureau is taken coln's administration. But he has be* D r y Gootls,
Clothing.
dent. Aud they now, themselves, avow Of that half, one half or more, like my­ electiou, though not one cent had been from the niggers what will the govern­ come convinced that the radical party,
Boots.
their purpose to grant the Congressional self, are of convictions so strong that
ment do with it ? I t will be of no use
Shoes,
if
allowed
to
continue
in
power,
will
pardon to no Southern man who will they will vote for any Democratic can­ appropriated. The Unionist challenges to any one, it’s so large, and why not let
Groceries ,
totally destroy the government, aud
not eat the leek of radicalism. (Hisses.) didate who has been named tor the office. investigation. We bad thought the
and Crockery,
Men like Governor Brown, of Georgia, (Great applause.) I refer to my posi editor of that paper too sagacious and the poor darkies keep it ?” We were hence quits it and joins the Democracy, That has ever been offered in Polk Co., is ju st
who, before the war broke out, drove tion of 38, not from vanity, but only well posted to have fallen into so glar* ccvinced that this simple yet honest
We ask honest republicans to read and received at
and dragged their people into rebellion, to give weight to the further estimate
republican had about as clear a con­
CROAK A W O L F ’S
and coward-like, seized our ports and that the other half, 375,000 voters who ingan error. The same Congress that ception of what the nigger bureau is, pouder his speech carefully.
New two story building at INDEPENDENCE,
made this deceitful appropriation ought
arsenals while yet wearing the mark of
which wc will sell CHEAPER than the CHEAP­
served in the Union army, may be lost
T he more ignorant of the republi­ EST.
loyaiity, are accounted loyal; while or won to the Democratic cause, as the to have reduced our taxes correspond­ and the end it is to subserve, as most
We are prepared through recent arrange­
men like George \V. Jones, of Tennes nomination may prove wise or otherwise. ingly. This it did not do. If, accord­ persons who favor the prolongation o! can press constantly assert that more ments
made iu San Francisco, to find constant
see, who was true to the Union from (Laughter and applause.) We have
the term of the nuisance.
sale for all kinds of Produce, and paying tha
whites
down
South
are
relieved
through
highest market price for WHEAT.
the first—whe will not swallow the dose assembled here in no spirit of dictation, ing to the Unionist editor’s estimate, it
the agency of that nuisance, the Freed*
We also have in connection with our store,
will
cost
less
for
the
current
year
than
of radical reconstruction, are denounced hut animated by a love for the Union
Gen. Butler is being beseiged and
men’s
Bureau,
than
blacks—that
they
A LARGE W AREHOUSE,
as hot malignants, deserving only of and Constitution, and a kindness toward it cost under Buchanan’s administra­ doluged with packages by mail and ex­
are
fed
and
clothed
from
its
bounty,
and
where
we offer storage on good terms.
proscription at the hands of Sumners all who would aid in securing a harmo­ tion to carry on the government, why
press containing old spoons, tin spoons,
and Kelleys and Butlers in Congress. nious nomination, and in securing a vic­
istf
CRONE > WOLF.
so on. If this were a fact; if the Bu­
are
not
the
millions
of
tax
gatherers
pewter
spoons,
iron
spoons
and
worth­
(Great Hisses. Cries of “ Who stole tory. I cannot permit myself to doubt
reau is so prompt and efficient an agent
the spoons ?” “ Dutch Gap.") Coun that the Democratic Convention assem­ called off? Why was not the income less spoons of all grades. I t annoys
MUST SETTLE IIP-
in the relief of the wants and necessities
sellors who write down judgments with bles in the same patriotic spirit, and law repealed? Why are we still re­ the old cock-eyed wretch terribly, but
of the white people down S outh; if
HAVE SOLD MY ENTIRE STOCK OF
pens hard-nibbed ; and Congress crowns
that they will present a candidate for quired to pay a government license for he has no way of helping himself.
Goods and Groceries to J! G. Brown,
its usurpation by an impeachment found­
they are fed and supplied with the and Dry
all those indebted to mo by book account,
the Fresideocy. who, whether he has the privilege of carrying on business,
ed upon a statute it had passed, declar­ served in our army or not, incontesta.
will confer a favor, by coming forward immed­
B ishop Marvin, of St Louis, is now necessaries of life by it, why are they so iately and making settlement, either by Cash
however small and insignificant? Why
ing it to be a crime for the President
bly sustained the war (great applause),
in this State. He represents the M. unanimously opposed to it and why# do or Note. J . G. Brown is aurhorisod to settle
to exercise the power conferred up jq
and for whom all the soldiers and sail­ are consumers still compelled to pay
they clamor so loudly for ita removal all accounts.
him by the Constitution as interpreted
E.
Church
South,
aud
is
said
to
be
a
W. C. BROWN.
the
enormous
tariff
of
from
40
to
70
ors oan vote without seeming inconsist­
among
them
?
And
how
is
it
that
des­
hy every Administration and Congress ency. Gentlemen, the RepwWfcffin par
per cent, on articles of prime necessity ? very talented gentleman. The Bishop
In pursuance of arrangements jnst entered
from the time of Washington down.— ty represent no principles for which wu
titution prevails to so alarming an ex­
has
lately
been
in
attendance
upon
the
into
as per above announcement, I make my
Why
did
not
the
same
Congress
that
(Applause.) After having impeached
tent among the white people in many bows to all customers of the house and desir«
fought. We fought not for negro suff­
Conference
and
a
series
of
religious
discovered that we could get along
him, while giving him a lynch law trial,
a continance of their favors. Those desiring
rage. (No, no. A voice—We wouldn’t
of the States where the “ Bureau ” is good bargains in dry goods, groceries, etc.,
the radical party, through its spokes­ have given a cent for it.) Nor did we cheaper now than we did under B u­ meetings at Roseburg.
in full blast ? Liars ! and hypocrites etc., will do well te remember Brown’s fir*
men and leaders, in Convention, with a
fight for white disfranchisement. (No, chanan repeal the “ Stamp A c t" and
proof brick. Dalles.
diabolical ferocity never before equalled no; never.) Nor for forcing unequal
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J. G. BROWN.
N
ew B ooks .— We have received that they must be who set up so silly a
in the politics of this country, attempt­ fellowship on any State of the Union. thus relieve the people of the annoy, from the publishing house of Bancroft plea.
ed to force Republican Senators to com* (Never, never.) Nor for changing the ance and cost of affixing stamps to all
N o tice o i F in a l S ettle m e n t
A
Co.,
San
Francisco,
“
McKenzie’s
m it moral «perjury by an insincere ver­ fundamental principles of the Govern writings in the details of business
S tealing on a G rand S cale .—
In th# County Court of Polk County
10,000 Receipts,”, a very valuable and
dict. (Applause.) So vast an a<$t
Oregon. In the matter *f the estate *f
ment. (No, never.) Nor did we fight transactions ? Buchanan got along
The
telegraph
teems
of
late
with
no-
never before was attempted by a party
Sarah Wood, deceased.
interesting
book;
also,
“
Power
and
for the supremacy of any party in the sans any of the above cumbersome and
counts of robberies of the government
John Waymire, Administrator d* bonis non,
of this nation. Had the President
Union. (No, no.) Of the 3,000 Union vexatious machinery. Under his ad­ Wealth," a book of rare interest and on a larger scale than has been usual. ot said estate, having filed hi* final aeeount,
•ought only personal ease or personal
in said Court, praying a final eetJsment of
soldiers who lie in fields washed by
value from the great variety and im­
ambition, aud consented to become the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific, not ministration we had no Revenue As.
Postoffice delinquencies loom up from tho same. Therefore, notio* is hereby given
portance of the subjects treated in it.—
to nil persons interested in said astute, that
instrument of this faction, his great ex­
one laid down his life for any of these sessor—no Collector— no 70 per cent, The public only want to know what all directions, and stealings of all sorts th* said application will he heard and deter­
ecutive powers wouid not have been
mined at the Court Houso iu Dallas in said
objects. Of the fifteen hundred thou­
usurped, nor would he as a criminal sand of their surviving comrades not tariff—no Inoome tax— no stamp tax these books contain, to give an im­ are being constantly reported. Com­ Couoty, on Tuesday the 6th day of October,
— no army of tax gatherers to eat out
W. C. WHITSON,
missioner Rollins—a bright and shining 1868.
have been dragged to the bar of the
mense popularity and sale. Sold only
one will say he would have risked his
County Judge .
Senate. But to his eternal honor (ap­
our substance—no pimps, spies or “ in­
Mongrel luminary is under arrest but Sept 14,1868.
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life for any of these objects.
by
subscription.
Agents
wanted
every­
plause) be stood by the Constitution
formers " nor any of the thousand nod
is likely to escape. This state of things
These theories of the Republican
where. Address Bancroft A Co., San
when assailed hy his political friends,
SCHOOL F U N D .
one petty annoyances which now beset
grows out of the action of the «Senate
is bo stood by the Union when the party are not only not the theories of
Francisco.
the war, hut they are so prosecuted as the citizen on every turn as a concomi­
abridging the President’s right to re­
h e r e is about ti,so o interest
storm burst over him..
due on the School Fnnd Bonds, end
to
defeat
the
accomplishment
of
those
tant of raising revenue to support the
E nterprise .—The boats having move offenders from office. They oan those who
Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified,
are in arrears, are requested to call
purposes, and to inflict on the nation
Hia loyal tj be kept, hia lore, hia faith,
nt once and pay the same to tha County Trane«
government.
The
editor
of
the
Union­
steal
to
their
hearts’
content
and
the
disappointed
G.
B
Stiles
last
week,
he
Nor number nor example with him w r o u g h t ,
evils as great as those which the war
urar.
to swerve from truth or change his con- was waged to prevent. The Democrat ist cannot but confess that the single immediately rushed off teams for more President is powerless to prevent it.—
M. CANTERBURY,
Supt. Com. Schools, Polk (hi,
fln st mind. (Three cheers for Andrew io party is now the only party true to item of Frecdmen’s Bureau machinery goods.
Rumpism is a costly commodity.
( Conti* wed fr o m ftr» t page.)
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HORATIO SEYMOUR,
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C. G. C U R L .
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