Lincoln, the advocate of abstinence

Description:

Relates the story of Lincoln's temperance speech of 1842. Sixty-five years before the founding of the Lincoln Legion (a pledge program which asked for abstinence from the use of alcohol by its signers), farmers and their families gathered at the South Fork School House in Sangamon County, Illinois to hear an appeal for total abstinence and to sign the pledge presented by a young lawyer named Abraham Lincoln.

subjects: Views on temperance

People: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)