| Monday, August 30, 1847.Springfield, IL. | Lincoln buys clothing material, 75ยข. Irwin Ledger. He and J. Robinson address meeting of Sangamon Temperance Union. One
listener signs pledge. William H. Townsend, Lincoln and Liquor (New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1935), 60. [Members of Constitutional Convention who favor Zachary Taylor for
President hold evening meeting in Capitol. Some 50 Whigs attend. Illinois Gazette, 11 September 1847.] |