Lincoln buys $15.56 worth of merchandise from a Springfield merchant.Account (copy), 11 March 1842, Irwin & Corneau Account Book, 252, microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.

[In long article on Washington Temperance Society, "Register" concludes: "does any rational man believe for a moment that Abraham Lincoln, B. S. Clement and Edward D. Baker have joined the Washingtonian Society from any other than political motives. Would they have joined it if it had been exceedingly unpopular?" Register, 11 March 1842.]