February 22, 1842

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            <date value='1842-02-22'>Tuesday,
  February 22, 1842.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> At noon, in the Second Presbyterian
  Church, Lincoln addresses the Washington Temperance Society and declares that
  the recent progress of the temperance movement is due to the efforts of the
  "reformed drunkard" and not to the "warfare" of "denunciation" waged by
  "preachers, lawyers, and hired agents." <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title> (Springfield, IL), 25 February
  1842, 2:7, 26 March 1842, 1:4-7;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A294' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Temperance Address</xref>,
  22 February 1842, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  1:271-79.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>A Springfield merchant, who owns a
  store/bank where Lincoln trades, debits Abraham Lincoln's account $1.50 for
  "Profit &amp; Loss." <bibl default='NO'>Account of Abraham
  Lincoln (copy), 22 February 1842, Irwin &amp; Corneau Account Book, 252,
  microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl> 
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