Victorian Culture - Oh that Noxious Weed! Cigars in the 19th Century

[Eva Elisabeth]

(12-17-2015 08:22 PM)maharba Wrote:  Stephen Douglas at one of their debates said that the very first time he saw him Abraham Lincoln was serving whiskey in a tavern. And Lincoln did have a license to sell whiskey from his store. When Lincoln was shot and they inventoried his personal effects, he had snuff with him in one of his pockets. I think too much is made of 'the evils of drink and tobacco'. And it's fair to say that he was very moderate in using both.

Abraham Lincoln got to know Douglas when they served together in the state legislature in the late1830s in Vandalia.
http://abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/abra...a-douglas/
What is your source for Lincoln working in a tavern then, respectively what is Douglas' o-quote? And for the stuff in his pockets at the assassination? Here's the LOC list (no stuff):
http://www.loc.gov/item/scsm001049/