On the recordFebruary 22, 1842
What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?
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In a speech on temperance, Lincoln asks the audience to recall personal examples of promising individuals ruined by the vice.
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