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La Salle February 9th 1864
His Excellency Richard Yates Governor of the State of Illinois
My Dear Governor
It was with patriotic pride & pleasure that I received by the hands of some kind friend the Chicago Journal of Jan 14th containing the Oath you administered and the Speech you delivered. to the Illinois. State. Teachers' Association By it you steped one round higher on the ladder of fame. You may be shure Dear Sir that I feel an increased pride at all your successes, claiming as I do to be the first man in the State that named you as their first choice for Governor. The political campain of 1860 was the most glorious one I ever expect to take part in. & the most disastrous to me starting out as I did spending large amounts of money thinking I might get the post office here the canal collectorship or something by which I would be compensated financially, but when the time came there was so many
wanted the loaves & fishes so much worse than I did that I stood back & saw those that done the least compensated by all that was worth haveing. then came the war I being a cripple could not volunteer & knowing nothing about military affairs did not think my self competent to fill any situation in that department. Then came the needs of the Soldiers which continues up to this time & I have divided my means with them till I am poor. I would be very thankful if I could get some situation civil or military by which I could recruit my finances a little. not haveing a relation in the country & but few influencial acquaintences. I hardly know where or how to make application with sufficient recommendation to get a paying situation My business here scarcely makes me a liveing. My Dear Sir I make these statements privately to you so that if you can without inconvenience help me to a situation you will greatly oblige
Yours Respectfully
Arthur McGirr
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McGirr. Arthur.
La Salle. Ills.
Feb 9, 1864.
Having suffered in a pecuniary point of view from the part he took in the political campaign of 1860, and being at its close disappointed in not obtaining some one of the lucrative posts, he anticipated. Now trusts his services meet with some recompense.
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