- Series
- Lincoln as a social prophet
- Air Date
- 1968-07-01
- Duration
- 00:28:46
- Episode Description
- Episode 2: Six years after Abraham Lincoln made his speech to the Young Men's Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois, on the urgent need to rule out most violence and democracy, he spoke with similar force during his amazingly contemporary temperance address before the Springfield Washington Temperance Society on February 22nd, 1842. At that time, DRAM was a synonym for "liquor."
- Series Description
- A series of readings from letters and speeches by Abraham Lincoln, prepared and delivered by Marvin Ceynar, speech instructor at Northern Illinois University.
- Subject(s)
- Creator(s)
- WNIC (Producer)Northern Illinois University (Producer)
- Contributors
- Genre(s)
- Geographic Region(s)
- regions
- Time Period
- 1961-1970
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