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Springfield. Ill Ap. 9 /64
To Richard Yates, Esq.
Dear Gov.
Please accept the enclosed, as the humblest but sincere acknowledgment of our personal admiration.
Beleiving these unpretending "Tablets" to be admirably adapted to the end for which they were intended, there seems to us to be no impropriety in presenting them to your Excellency, whose voice has so often become hoarse in advocating the Cause of the Country, and the rights of Humanity.
It is not to parade a trifling, though useful article of our manufacture, before your Excellency's eye, that we beg to express the hope that the day may be far distance, when you shall require any more radical remedy for physical ailments, than these "Toke Drops"; and that the voice which has been so eloquent for Liberty, may never be less loud, or strong, or persuasive, till, throughout our domain, at least Political Equality shall have been secured, and the Genius of Freedom an enthroned and,
worshipped Divinity, in the hearts of all our people.
With diffident but unfaltering Respect
We are Yours Truly,
McCulloch & Co
McCullock & Co
Springfield
April 9 1864
Presents Governor with "Bronchal Trochies" for clearing throat.