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Title: Lincoln and prohibition
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: White, Charles T. (Charles Thomas), 1863-1954
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati, The Abingdon Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Iowa;W. A. Buckingham, who with Charles Sumnerdrafted the memorial to Lincoln, asking for theappointment of Merwin, was governor of Connecti-cut. Austin Blair was governor of Michigan;Zachariah Chandler was senator from Michigan;James Dixon was senator from Connecticut;Richard Yates was governor of Illinois; J. L.Scripps was postmaster of Chicago, and founderof the Press-Tribune; Thomas H. Drummond wasjudge of the United States District Court; AlexW. Randall was governor of Wisconsin; A. B.Palmer was surgeon of the 2nd Michigan Volun-teers and professor of medicine in the Universityof Michigan, All of these men were outstandingpolitical and social figures at the time, and strongsupporters of President Lincoln. Their signatureson Merwins petition prove that there was a care-fully thought-out plan to have temperance workdone among the soldiers. The autograph indorsement of Merwin by Gen-eral John A. Dix, and the official pass for Merwinand driver to pass the lines, are self-explanatory.
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o ^4 ^ ^ CHAPTER XX LINCOLN AND GENERAL GRANTSLIQUOR DRINKING The liquor interests capitalized to the fullesta humorous utterance attributed to Lincoln withreference to General Grants well-known use ofardent spirits. When just before the fall of Vicks-burg, a certain committee urged Lincoln to re-move Grant because he drank too much whisky,Lincoln is said to have replied: If I knew whereGrant gets his whisky, I would send a barrel of itto every general in the field. If Lincoln ever saidit at all, he said it to stop the mouths of over-zealous men who utterly failed to appreciate thatthe great task of the hour was the preservation ofthe Union through the defeat of the Confederatesat Vicksburg and elsewhere. Lincoln trustedGrant, and his confidence was beautifully justi-fied. It would seem from the record that GeneralGrant, following his reproof at the hands of Gen-eral Rawlins, his chief-of-staff, never allowed hispersonal habits to interfere with an efficient dis-charge of his duties.

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