Abraham Lincoln to Henry Clay Whitney, June 7, 1855

Source citation
Abraham Lincoln to Henry Clay Whitney, June 7, 1855, Springfield, IL, in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (8 vols., New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 2: 313, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/.
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Transcriber
Transcription adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953), edited by Roy P. Basler
Adapted by Matthew Pinsker, Dickinson College
Transcriber's Comments
Stephen T. Logan was Lincoln's former law partner.  Henry Clay Whitney was a young attorney. The "Prohibitory Law" was an attempt to introduce the "Maine Law" or temperance to Illinois.
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