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February 08, 1842

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Tuesday, February 8, 1842.
 Springfield, IL.

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Before fellow Washington Temperance Society members, Lincoln delivers short eulogy on Benjamin Ferguson who died February 3, 1842. He laments that Ferguson was not longer spared to carry on temperance work. "In very truth he was, the noblest work of God—an honest man." Eulogy on Benjamin Ferguson, 8 February 1842, CW, 1:268-69. 

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