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This Autographed 7.5x11.5 Letter with the inscription of "Respectfully submitted to the Attorney General June 4, 1862" has been Personally Signed by Abraham Lincoln. This item is 100% Authentic to include a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) / hologram by Beckett Authentication Services. The authenticity can be verified on Beckett Authentication Services website. Abraham Lincoln Endorsement Signed on the reverse of this 1 page letter to Salmon P. Chase from Dr. Amos Pettijohn. Pettijohn's letter to Chase, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, in full, with spelling unchanged, "I crave your attention a moment. I am an applicant for the Marshallship of Arizonia Territory and desire you to Speak to the president on the Subject. Having been a member of the any Slavry political Party for the past Twenty five years, having in that lenth of time Suffered prosecution & persecution. Perhaps yourself recolict the J B Mahan fuss that took place in Brown County in the state Ohio about 20 odd years ago in which I was included in the Suit with Mahan, which utterally Broke me up. Having Since that time acted with no other party except the Republican Party. Believing that you think Such Men Since Such great changes have taken place Should be Recompensed to Some amount for their former difficulties. And ask your kind attention with the president in this matter for the truth of the above I Refer you to J D G Pettijohn & Z P Gunion of the Auditors department at Washington / Amos Pettijohn MD / My Papers and vouchers are in the hands of the Hon Mr Shanks M.C. of the 11th Cong District in Ind of which I am a citizen".
