Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2 [Sept. 3, 1848-Aug. 21, 1858].

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Title: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2 [Sept. 3, 1848-Aug. 21, 1858].
Author: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press; 1953.
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To Henry C. Whitney1Jump to section

H. C. Whitney, Esq Springfield,
My dear Sir: June 7. 1855

Your note containing election news is received; and for which I thank you. It is all of no use, however. Logan is worse beaten than any other man ever was since elections were invented---beaten more than 1200 in this county.

It is conceded on all hands that the Prohibitory law is also beaten.2Jump to section Yours truly A. LINCOLN---

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[1] ALS, owned by Mrs. Logan Hay, Springfield, Illinois. Whitney was a young attorney at Urbana, Illinois, whose association with Lincoln became elaborated in his book Life on the Circuit with Lincoln (1892), which contained some valuable and much questionable material.

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[2] The so-called ``Maine Law'' prohibiting the sale of intoxicants.

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