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Treasurer-Delos R. Ashley (R). 2.021; Joel T. Landrum (D D), 1,606; Thomas Findley (D), 949. Controller-Gilbert R. Warren ( R), 2.006; James E. Nuttman (D D), 1,654; S. H. Brooks (D), 896. Surveyor-General-J. F. Houghton (R), 1,998; J. J. Gardner (D D), 1,654; Horace A. Higley (D), 912. State Printer-B. P. Avery (R), 2.020; J. R. Ridge 'D D), 1,636; M. D. Carr (D), 901.
The county nominees received the following votes: Senate-W. D. Harriman (R), 2,005: H. Fitzsim- mons (D D), 1,691; E. McDonald (D), 777.
Assembly-John Yule (R), 2,074; E. W. Hillyer (R). 1,934, J. J. Lynn (R), 1.774; C. C. Dudley (D D), 1,815; J. L. Brown (D D), 1,651; T. L. Chamberlain (D D), 1,406; Wm. H. Parkinson (D), 759; J. R. Nickerson (D), 840; T. B. Harper (D), 927.
Superintendent of Common Schools-A. H. Good- rich (R), 2,000; J. W. Scobey (D D), 1,557; James Moore (D), 845.
The total vote of the county, 4,654.
The Legislature met January 4, 1862, and organ- ized by electing James McM Shafter (Republican), President pro tem. of the Senate, and George Bar- stow (Republican), Speaker of the Assembly. Jan- uary 14th, Sacramento was inundated by the sever- est flood ever experienced since the American oceupa- tion of the State, and the Legislature adjourned, and made a temporary capital at San Francisco. In March, an Act was passed authorizing Placer County to vote upon the proposition of subscribing $100.000 to the stock of the Sacramento, Placer and Auburn Railroad. One of Placer's Members of Assembly was E. W. Hillyer, who was also a Lieutenant and afterwards a Lieutenant-Colonel of volunteers, and was stationed at Walla Walla, in Washington Terri- tory. He obtained a leave of absence from his com- pany, and served his term in the Assembly.
The Legislature adjourned sine die April 14, 1862.
CAMPAIGN OF 1862.
At the election to be held on the first Wednesday of September, 1862, the people were required to vote for a Superintendent of Public Instruction, and upon four amendments to the State Constitution, through- out the State, and in Placer County for Legislative and county officers. The amendments to the Consti- tution provided for biennial sessions of the Legisla- ture, making the session begin the first Monday of December in 1863, and every two years thereafter, limiting the session to 120 days; and separated the election of the judiciary and school officers from the purely political officers.
THREE PARTIES IN THE FIELD.
Efforts were made to form combinations of parties to dissolve the Douglas, or, as it was commonly ealled, the Union Democratie Party, that seemingly being the only movable or dissoluble organization. The effort prevailed in some counties, but in Plaeer the three parties entered the field, as in the previous campaign. The Republicans and the Douglas Dem- ocrats represented the Union element, and the Dem- ocraey the peace-at-any-price and rebel element. The war was progressing with great fiereeness and energy, and party and sectional feeling was intense and bitter. The Union element was much the strong- est, and at times expressed itself in the violent treat- ment of its opponents, as the Republicans had been treated four or five years before. Hon. James Ander-
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son, in this campaign Democratic candidate for County Judge, was rudely assaulted with eggs thrown at him, when addressing a political meeting at Dutch Flat. So bitter was the feeling against those called Secessionists that many were deterred from expressing their opinions in public.
The election occurred September 4, 1862, resulting in the election of John Swett as Superintendent of Publie Instruction. The candidates and the votes each received in Placer County was:
Superintendent of Public Instruction-John Swett (R) 2,001; J. D. Stevenson (U D), 1,829; O. P. Fitz- gerald (D), 695.
Senate-Felix B. Higgins (R), 1,948; Lewis G. Smith (U D), 1,837; Joseph Walkup (D), 714.
Assembly-S. R. Bradley (R), 1,799; John Yule (R), 2,053; N. W. Blanchard (R), 1,925; C. C. Dud- ley (U D), 1,975; Lathrop L. Bullock (U D), 1,843; Titus Ewing (U D), 1.774; Edward Barrett (D), 694; Geo. W. Applegate (D), 656; S. B. Wy man (D), 636. County Judge-Hart Fellows (R), 2,068; Alvin S. Higgins (U D), 1,734; James Anderson (D), 683.
District Attorney-Jo Hamilton (U D), 2,210; P. H. Sibley (R), 1,893; James P. Dameron (D), 315.
Sheriff-Henry Gooding (U D), 2,193; John C. Boggs (R), 1,960; O. H. Ballinger (D), 358.
County Clerk-Wm. Cory (R), 1.874; Augustus Williams (U D), 1,807; W. H. Kruger (D), 790.
Treasurer-E. M. Banvard (U D), 2,151; E. F. Hoyt (R), 1,757; J. W. Brady (D), 573.
Recorder-W. H. Patton (U D), 1,936; W. A. Sel- kirk (R), 1,820; J. Jones (D), 698.
Publie Administrator-Charles T. Palmer (U D), 1,879; Henson Hazel (R), 1,873: W. A. Henry (D), 668.
Surveyor -- A. N. Davidson (R), 2,002; S. G. Elliott (U D), 1,771; C. W. Finley (D), 731.
Coroner-Francis O'Neil (U D), 1,862; Thomas Jamison (R), 1,861; Otto Johnson (D), 657.
Constitutional Amendments-Article 4-No, 1,431; Yes, 1,021; Article 5-No, 1.543: Yes, 856; Article 6 -No, 1,433; Yes, 1,233; Article 9-No, 1,491; Yes, 869. Total vote of the county, 4,582.
ABOLITION OF SLAVERY.
The Legislature met January 5, 1863. The parti- san representation was classed as follows: Senate- 31 Republicans, 5 Union Democrats, and 4 Demo- crats. Assembly 63 Republicans, 10 Union Demo- crats, and 4 Democrats. A. M. Crane was elected President pro tem. of the Senate, and T. N. Machin, Speaker of the Assembly, both Republicans. Nearly the first business introduced was a resolution approving the Emancipation Proclamation of Presi- dent Lincoln, by which slavery was abolished in the United States January 1, 1863. This was violently opposed by Assemblyman C. C. Dudley, of Placer, who had been elected on the Union Democrat ticket, defeating Lynn, who had declared himself an Aboli- tionist of olden time, but prevailed by the largo vote of 65 yeas to 11 noes.
JOHN CONNESS ELECTED SENATOR.
The question of the election of United States Sen- ator occupied a great part of the business of the session until the 10th of February, when the choice fell upon John Conness, of El Dorado. The leading candidates had been T. G. Phelps, A. A. Sargent and James McMI Shafter.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS ADOPTED.
The Legislature by resolution declared that the Constitutional Amendments proposed by the two preceding Legislatures had been adopted and were part of the organic law. The Legislature passed an Act, approved April 2, 1863, authorizing an election in Placer County, on the proposition to subscribe $250,000 to the stock of the Central Pacific Railroad. The election was held May 12th, and decided in favor of the subscription. An Aet regulating elections to con- form to the provisions of the Amendments to the Con- stitution provided that all county officers should be elected in 1863 and every two years thereafter, tak- ing their offices on the first Monday of March follow- ing. This statute shortened the terms of the county officers of Placer nearly one year. This was charged as an act of partisanship, as nearly all the officers were Union Democrats, and that the Republican Legislature exercised its power for the benefit of the party. The Legislature adjourned sine die, April 27, 1863, and the event was celebrated in Auburn by the firing of 100 guns.
CAMPAIGN OF 1863.
In the campaign of 1863 the political parties had become more defined, and the great questions of national importance had so developed as to leave two sides plainly visible, leaving no possible question for a third party npon which it could claim a principle. The great war was at its height, and was fought with an energy and force of men and means, of blood and treasure, of skill and courage, of enthu- siam and determination, of patriotism and suffering, never before recorded in history. The abolition of slavery was deelared and, with the existence of the Union, depended on the issue of the war. The political question of the campaign was the support of the Administration in the war on one side, and disap- proval and enmity on the other.
There were to be elected three Members of Con- gress, a Governor and State officers, Legislative and county officers at the political election to be held September 21; and a Superintendent of Public Instruction, District and County Judge, at the judi- cial election to be held October 21, 1863. Two State Senators were to be elected in Placer County.
DEMOCRATIC SONG.
The following verses are taken from a popular Democratic campaign song of 1863, entitled " A New Dixie," and are an example of the argument and feeling of the period :-
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The people 'lected Old Abe Lincoln, Wonder what they were a thinkin'? Abraham was an old deceiver, Rail-wood splitter-Union cleaver. Look away-Away- Old Abe won't save the Union! On Union ground He is not found- He will not save the Union.
Years of warfare ! bloodshed! horror! Years of broken hearts and sorrow; Widows, orphans, bankrupt Nation.
And yet our eyes see no Salvatiou! Look away-Away- They will not save the Union! On Union ground They are not found, Who favor war for Union!
Down with Wade and Chase, and all such, Weak or wicked we will call such- Give us men as rulers o'er us,
Like Vallandligham and Voorhies! Look away-Away; Such men will give us Union; On Union ground They're always found, And loyal to the Union.
" LONG HAIRS " AND " SHORT HAIRS " UNITED.
The election of Conness to the United States Sen- ate by the Republican Legislature, bad united the Union Democrats adhering to him, known as "Short Hairs," to the Republican party, which had been designated as " Long Hairs." The County Convention of this party met at Auburn, June 13th, nominated Legislative and county officers, and appointed delegates to the State Convention, which met at Sacramento June 15th. The "Short Hairs" were in the majority, and secured all the nominations, with the exception of Controller and Clerk of the Supreme Court, the latter, the Hon. Wm. D. Harri- man, Senator from Placer, having been an outspoken Republican from the organization of the party and an able advocate of the abolition of slavery. The term " Long Hair" was given the early Republi- cans in derision of the many leaders who affected that fashion of wearing their hair; and the reverse to the rougher element who had formerly been the adherents of Broderick, coming into the party via the Douglas branch, and who were supposed to crop their locks in fighting style. The prominent candi- dates for Governor were, A. A. Sargent and F. F. Low. The former received 93 votes, and the latter 176.
The Union Democratie County Convention met at Auburn, June 22d, nominated Legislative and county officers, and appointed delegates to a State Conven- tion to be held at Sacramento on the 24th. At this Convention only the Chairman of the Central Com- mittee, D. D. Colton, and the Placer delegates were present, and no nominations were made. With the exception of in Placer, the Union Democrats affilli- ated with the other parties as their principles or interests dictated.
DEMOCRATS UNITED.
The Democrats of Placer held no County Conven- tion, but in township meetings selected delegates to the State Convention, which met at Sacramento
July 8th, being a union of the Democratic elements. The prominent candidates for Governor were R. T. Sprague, of Shasta; Wm. N. Leet, of Placer; J. G. Downey, of Los Angeles; John B. Weller, of Ala- meda, and Joseph W. McCorkle, of Butte, the honor falling upon ex-Governor Downey.
The Stars and Stripes newspaper was established as an advocate of the Republican cause July 29th, by J. C. Boggs, with W. A. Selkirk as editor, being the first avowed Republican paper in the county.
The election was held September 2, 1863, electing the Republican candidates. The following was the vote for Governor: Low (R), 64,283; Downey (D), 44,622. At the judicial election, held October 21st, the Republican candidates received 45,000 votes and the Democratic 20,000.
The vote in Placer County was as follows :-
Governor-F. F. Low (R), 2,066; J. G. Downey (D), 1,529.
Lieutenant-Governor-T. N. Machin (R), 2,057; E. W. Mckinstry (D), 1,616.
Congress-T. B. Shannon (R), 2,039; Wm. Higby (R), 2,039; Cornelius Cole (R), 2,059; J. B. Weller (D), 1,561; John Bigler (D), 1,470; N. E. White- sides (D), 1,682.
Secretary of State-B. B. Redding (R), 2,055; S. W. Bishop (D), 1,614.
Controller-Geo. Oulton (R), 2,052; Robert O. Cra- vens (D), 1,620.
Treasurer-R. Pacheco (R), 2,042; T. Findley (D), 1,631.
Attorney-General- J. G. Mccullough (R), 2,054; L. C. Granger (D), 1,614.
Surveyor-General- J. F. Houghton (R), 2,054; Presly Dunlap (D), 1,616.
State Printer - O. M. Clayes (R), 2,054; Beriah Brown (D), 1,612.
Clerk Supreme Court-W. D. Harriman (R), 2,017; A. C. Bradford (D), 1,640.
Harbor Commissioner --- Taylor (R), 2,059; MI. Hayes (D), 1,614.
The candidates for Legislative and county officers and the votes received were as follows :-
Senate-John Yule (R), 2,154; James E. Hale (R), 2,117; E. L. Bradley (D), 1,684; C. C. Dudley (D), 1,674.
Assembly-J. D. Pratt (R), 2,207; E. H. Snyder (R), 2,144; M. C. Winchester (R), 2,180; J. C. Ball, (D), 1,639; Wm. Dana Perkins (D), 1,702; S. A. Boutwell (D), 1,653.
Sheriff-Wm. Sexton (R), 2,174; 1I. Gooding (D), 1,692.
County Clerk-D. W. Spear (R), 2,192; A. Hunt- ley (D), 1,668.
Treasurer-J. W. Dickerson (R), 2,100; E. M. Banvard (D), 1,744.
Recorder-W. B. Lyon (R), 2,221; W. H. Patton (D), 1,638.
District Attorney-C. A. Tweed (R), 2,127; Jo Hamilton (D), 1,733.
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Public Administrator-H. Hazel (R), 2,205; C. T. Palmer (D), 1,631.
Superintendent of Schools-A. H. Goodrich (R), 2,212; D. W. Hammond (D), 1,634.
Surveyor-E. A. Phelps (R), 2,189; E. C. Uren (D), 1,668.
Coroner-Thomas Jamison (R), 2,192; Thomas Shanley (D), 1,660.
JUDICIAL ELECTION.
At the judicial election, October 21, 1863, the vote was as follows :-
Superintendent of Public Instruction-John Swett (R), 1,789; O. M. Wozencraft (D), 802.
Justices of Supreme Court-S. W. Sanderson, John Curry, Lorenzo Sawyer, A. L. Rhodes, and O. L. Shafter (R), 1,784; Royal T. Sprague, Wm. T. Wal- lace, J. B. Hall, Tod Robinson, and H. H. Hartly (D), 793.
District Judge of Fourteenth Judicial District (comprising the counties of Placer and Nevada)-T. B. McFarland (R), 1,857.
County Judge-H. Fellows (R), 1,634; Hugh Fitz- simmons (Ind), 936.
PLACER COUNTY MATTERS.
On the 1st of January, 1864, Placer County ceased to be a part of the Eleventh Judicial District, and, with Nevada County, became the Fourteenth Dis- trict.
December 1, 1863, C. J. Hillyer, a citizen of Placer, resigned his position as Reporter of the Supreme Court, and Charles A. Tuttle, also of Placer, was appointed by Governor Stanford in his stead.
By an Act passed by the Legislature of 1863 the terms of county officers commenced on the first Monday of March ensuing their election.
The new administration went into power on the first Monday in December. The Legislature organ- ized by the election of R. Burnell, of Amador, as President pro tem. of the Senate, and Wm. H. Sears, of Nevada, as Speaker of the Assembly.
Among the Acts of the Legislature was one pro- viding for levying a poll tax of two dollars upon each inhabitant of Placer County liable to such tax under the general law. The revenue derived from this was to be devoted to the payment of the interest on the $250,000 bonds issued by the county in purchasing the stock of the Central Pacific Rail- road Company.
CAMPAIGN OF 1864.
With the campaign of 1864, again occurred the Presidential election. The war had been prosecuted during the past year with geat vigor on both sides, and the decisive victories of Gettysburg and Vicks- burg and the opening of the Mississippi had been won by the Federal forces; but the rebel government was still maintained at Richmond, and several for- midable rebel armies continued in the field. The political position was the same as in the preceding campaign; that was, the support of the war or oppo-
sition to it. The abolition of slavery had given the Democrats the opportunity to make strong accu- sations against the Republican administration, slav- ery being regarded as the most sacred institution of the Government, as it had been declared to be the corner-stone of the Southern Confederacy, and negro equality was the frightful picture presented to the people.
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS.
National Conventions to nominate a President and Vice-President had been called-the Republican to meet at Baltimore June 7th, and the Democratic to meet at Chicago, July 4th, which was postponed to August 29th. A Convention styling itself " Radical Democrats," claiming to be Republicans opposed to the tender policy of Lincoln, was held at Cleveland the last of May, and nominated J. C. Fremont for President and John Cochrane for Vice-President.
The Baltimore Convention nominated Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, for President, and Andrew John- son, of Tennessee, for Vice-President; and the Chicago Convention nominated George B. McClellan, of Penn- sylvania, for President, and George H. Pendleton, of Ohio, for Vice-President. The Democrats declared " unqualified condemnation of the Emancipation Proclamation of the President as tending to pro- tract indefinitely the civil war, excite servile insurrec- tion, and close the door forever to a restoration of the Union of these States." The war for the Union was declared a failure, and a cessation of hostilities urged with a view to a Convention of all the States to make peace on a basis of the Federal Union of all of the States.
The Proclamation of the Governor called for the election November 8, 1864, to choose five electors, three Members of Congress, and county officers according to law. By Act of the Legislature of 1864, the State had been divided into Congressional Districts, with Placer County in the Second, which was composed of the following counties: Alameda, Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Contra Costa, El Do- rado, Mono, Nevada, Placer, Saeamento, San Joaquin, and Tuolumne; and the county divided into three Supervisor and Revenue Districts, in each of which a Supervisor, an Assessor, and a Collector, should be elected in the manner provided by statute. District No. 1, was comprised of Townships Nos. 1, 2, 9, and 10; District No. 2, of Townships Nos. 3 and 4; and District No. 3, of Townships Nos. 5, 6, 7, and 8. In District No. 1 a Supervisor was to be elected, and an Assessor and Collector in each in 1864.
THE ELECTION.
The election was held November 8th, resulting in the success of the Republican candidates. The electoral vote in the United States was: Lincoln, 212; McClellan, 21. The vote in California was: Lincoln, 62,899; Mcclellan, 43,865. For Represen- tative in the Second Congressional District the vote was as follows: William Higby (R), 23,414; James
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W. Coffroth (D), 14,581. In the First District, D. C. MeRuer, of San Francisco, and in the Third, John Bidwell, of Butte, were elected to Congress.
The candidates and the votes each received in Placer County were as follows :-
For Presidential Electors-Samuel Brannan (R), 2,303; J. G. M.cClellan (R), 2,313; Charles McClay (R), 2.315; W. W. Crane, Jr., (R), 2,314; W. Oliver (R), 2,310; H. P. Barbour (D), 1,476; John T. Doyle (D) 1,478; B. F. White (D), 1,476; Jo Hamilton (D), 1,485; E. J. Lewis (D), 1.474.
Congress-William Higby (R), 2,310; James W. Coffroth (D), 1,458.
Assessor, District No. 1-A. C. Barmore (R), 631; James Moore (D), 541.
Assessor, Distriet No. 2-John Kneeland (R), 674; W. A. Himes (D), 503.
Assessor, District No. 3-William Van Vactor (R), 829; Thomas Dodds (D), 360.
Collector, District No. 1 -- W. Dana Perkins (D), 641; G. L. Grilley (R), 522.
Collector, District No. 2-William E. Miller (R). 620; Thomas Curley (D), 392; C. M. Kopp (Ind). 171.
Collector, District No. 3-J. S. Stackhouse (R), 719; J. D. McCormick (D), 659.
Total vote, 3,788.
Mr. William Dana Perkins, as Collector of District No. 1, had the honor of being the only Democrat elected in Placer County.
CHAPTER XXII.
POLITICAL HISTORY OF PLACER COUNTY.
(CONTINUED.)
Campaign of 1865-Death of Lincoln-Split in the Republican Party-Judicial Election-The Legislature-Registry Law -Campaign of 1867-Political Changes-Meeting of Con- ventions-The Election-Judicial Election-The Legisla- ture-Eugene Casserly Senator-Presidential Campaign of 1868-Republican Victory-Campaign of 1869-Negro Suf- frage -- The Election-Judicial Election-The Legislature- Edgar M. Banvard-Campaign of 1871-The Election-Judi- cial Election, 1871-The Legislature-Sargent Senator- Dunnam's Election-Campaign of 1872-Grant and Gree- ley-Que-tions at Issue-The Election -- Campaign of 1573 -" Dolly Vardens "-The Election-Judicial Election-The Legislature-Senators Elected-Campaign of 1875 -- Com- plieated Parties -- The Election -- Judicial Election, 1875 -- The Legislature-The Debris Question -- William M. Crutcher -Campaign of 1876-Centennial Year -- Presi- dential Election, 1876.
GREAT political changes occurred between the close of the campaign of 1864 and the opening of the campaign of 1865. The last great battles of the Rebellion had been fought, the rebel armies sur- rendered, and as peace and good-will were prom- ised by President Lincoln, he was assassinated on the 14th of April, 1865, dying the following day. The great triumph which had sent joy throughont the land was turned to sincerest mourning. 'The newspapers of Placer County, without distinction of politics, were issued in mourning and published articles of sorrow and abhorrence of the great crime.
The funeral obsequies of the murdered President were observed in all the prominent towns of the county, as well as throughout the State, on the 19th of April following the sad event. Business was suspended, public and many private buildings were draped in black, whole communities assem- bled in procession; sermons, poems, and orations were delivered, and the form of funeral observed with feeling and solemnity. This dark tragedy closed the terrible war. The Union was maintained and slavery forever forbidden in the territory of the United States. Many of the citizens of Placer had participated in the war, whose records are given in the chapter devoted to military affairs.
The political campaign of 1865 opened with timid and cautions action. The great events preceding it attracted the chief attention, and no question of importance seemed to demand the exertions of pol- itieians. The Democrats were overwhelmed with the rebel defeat, and the success of the Republicans was conceded. There were two wings of this party, denominated the " Long Hairs " and "Short Hairs." A United States Senator was to be elected by the next Legislature and the principal strife was which wing should win the prize. Conness had been elected by the " Short Hairs," and the Federal offices were held by his adherents.
The officers to be voted for in Placer County at the political election in September were a State Sen- ator, three Assemblymen, county officers and Super- visors.
SPLIT IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
The Republican County Convention was held at Auburn June 27th and made nominations, which were claimed as a triumph of the " Long Hairs," and so distasteful to the defeated party that a call was issued for a " People's Union Convention," to mect at Auburn July 11, 1865, for the purpose of nominating Legislative and county officers. This Convention nominated candidates, issued a platform, and organized as a party. The platform deelared in favor of the State adopting the Constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, and approved all acts of the late war, but opposed any change being made in the right of suffrage in this State. This last prop- osition was to oppose the granting of the right to vote to colored citizens, and was a pleasing plank to the Democracy. The new party also favored the "reconstruction " poliey of President Johnson, which was violently opposed by the Republicans, and thus party lines were drawn.
The Democrats made no county nominations. The Herald, while not advocating the " People's Union " ticket, vigorously attacked its opponents, who were strongly upheld by the Stars and Stripes, at Auburn, and the Enquirer, at Dutch Flat.
The election was held September 6, 1865, passing very quietly, as is indicated by the light vote. The candidates and the votes received are as fol- lows :-
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Senate-E. L. Bradley (R), 1.659; L. B. Arnold (P U), 1,311.
Assembly-John Yule (R), 1,632; Wm. Sexton (R), 1,760; John Bosquit (R), 1,710; J. N. Ifinman (P U), 1,330; J. B. Stevens (P U), 1,218; Titus Ewing (P U), 1,233.
Sheriff-A. W. Poole (R), 1,730; C. J. Garland (PU), 1,325.
County Clerk-D. W. Spear (R), 1,829; S. M. Jami- son (P U), 1,196.
Recorder-W. B. Lyon (R), 1,942; D. Choate (P U), 1,020.
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