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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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elivered before theSpringfield Washingtonian Temperance Societyat the Second Presbyterian Church, on February22, 1842, by Abraham Lincoln: Although the temperance cause has been inprogress for nearly twenty years, it is apparentto all that it is just now being crowned with adegree of success hitherto unparalleled. The list of its friends is daily swelled by theadditions of fifties, of hundreds, and of thousands.The cause itself seems suddenly transformed froma cold, abstract theory into a living, breathing,active, and powerful chieftain, going forth con-quering and to conquer. The citadels of his greatadversary are daily being stormed and disman-tled ; his temples and his altars, where the rites ofhis idolatrous worship have long been performed,and where human sacrifices have long been wontto be made, are daily desecrated and deserted.The trump of the conquerors fame is soundingfrom hill to hill, from sea to sea, and from land toland, and calling millions to his standard at ablast. 40
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Lincoln in 1847—His First Photograph LINCOLN AND PROHIBITION 41 For this new and splendid success we heartiljrejoice. That that success is so much greater nowthan heretofore is doubtless owing to rationalcauses; and if we would have it continue, we shalldo well to inquire what those causes are. The warfare heretofore waged against thedemon intemperance has, somehow or other, beenerroneous. Either the champions engaged, or thetactics they adopted, have not been the mostproper. These champions, for the most part, havebeen preachers, lawyers, and hired agents; be-tween these and the mass of mankind there is awant of approachahility, if the term be admissible,partial, at least, fatal to their success. They aresupposed to have no sympathy of feeling or in-terest with those very persons whom it is theirobject to convince and persuade. And, again, it is so easy and so common toascribe motives to men of these classes, other thanthose they profess to act upon. The preacher, itis said, advoca

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