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Lot #241
Salmon P. Chase Autograph Quotation Signed

"They deserve to lose their liberties, who will not spare time from selfish pursuits to guard them"

Estimate: $400+

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"They deserve to lose their liberties, who will not spare time from selfish pursuits to guard them"

Politician (1808-1873) who served as secretary of the treasury for the first three years of Abraham Lincoln's term, after which Lincoln appointed him chief justice of the Supreme Court. In that role Chase presided over the 1868 impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. AQS on an off-white 4.75 x 7.5 sheet, signed at the conclusion in ink, "S. P. Chase, Wash'n Mar. 15, 1871." Chase pens a quote from 'Zenobia; Or, the Fall of Palmyra' by William Ware, in full: "They deserve to lose their liberties, who will not spare time from selfish pursuits to guard them." Nicely double-matted and framed with an engraved portrait to an overall size of 16 x 13.75. In fine condition, with a light diagonal bend across the top blank area.

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