State of Michigan
	     AUDITOR GENERAL'S OFFICE
	     Lansing Feby 6, 1860
Hon. D.L. Case:
	Dear Sir:

     I hereby tender my resignation as
clerk in the Auditor General's office,
to take Effect on the 1st day of July next.
     Circumstances may occur which
will render it necesary for me to sever
my connection with the office at an
Earlier day, in which Event, I shall
Endeavor to give you due and timely 
notice.
	The precarious state of my
health, and the counsel of my medical
advisers admonish me that the seden-
tary labor of this office is prejudicial to
my recovery.

	I also desire, if possible, to spend
my remaining days on the Pacific

      beloved
shore of our ^ country, as better suited
to my health, and as opening a
wider and more appropriate field
for laboring in the Republican cause
which is the cause of justice and
humanity. For the success of Anti-
Slavery principles I have spent
     a large portion
^ the best years of my life. For the
triumph and perpetuity of those
principles, I desire to devote the balance
			   to my family
as far as health and duty ^ will per
-mit.
	In resigning my position
in your office, I deem it a fitting
occasion to bear unequivocal testimony
to the ability and fideltiy with which 
you have discharged the arduous
and responsible duties of the office
of Auditor General, and to Express
my Earnest desire that you may
be re-elected to the station which
you now fill so honorably to yourself,
and so beneficially to the State

	Yours Truly
		        David M. Bagley.

copy of a letter
	resigning my position
	in the Auditor General's
	office. Lansing Feby 6, 1860.