Boy done youse guys realize it's " Honest Abez " Birfday???

[Drew]

Not a drop...

Drew

The following snippits taken from the below link from the Univ. of Illinois Library "Licoln vs. Liquor"
http://www.archive.org/stream/lincolnvsliquor00bake/lincolnvsliquor00bake_djvu.txt

Lincoln's mother warned him against the vice
of intemperance. She showed him that the use of liquor degraded the mind and that it was destructive of the soul. There is absolutely" no evidence to show that in his entire life he ever took a drink
of liquor. There is plenty of evidence to the effect that he was as abstemious as an anchorite; that he never took a drink of liquor, and that he persuaded
others to leave it alone. Lincoln viewed liquor and slavery as twin evils.

" And when the victory shall be complete:
when there shall be neither a slave or a drunkard on the earth, how proud the title of that land which may truly claim to be the birthplace and the cradle of both these revolutions that shall have ended in that victory. How nobly distinguished that people, -who shall have planted, and nurtured to maturity, both the political and moral freedom of their species."