LINCOLN AS A PROHIBITIONIST.
Major J. B. Merwin and Abraham Lincoln—They Together Canvass
Illinois for State Prohibition in 1854-55—Lincoln's Arguments
Against the Saloon—Facts Omitted by Lincoln
Biographers—President Lincoln, Generals Scott and Butler
Recommend Merwin's Temperance Work in the Army—The President
Sends Merwin on a Mission to New York the Day of the
Assassination—Proposition for Freedmen to Dig the Panama
Canal—Lincoln's Last Words to Merwin—Merwin's Characteristic
Address at Lincoln's Tomb—"Lincoln the Christian
Statesman"—Merwin Living at Middlefield, Connecticut 57