Lecompton Constitution framed, 150; accepted by Buchanan, 150; rejected and defeated by Douglas, 150 Lee proposes separation from Great Britain, 22 Lee, Robert E., sent by Davis to the Crimea, 170; sounded as to accepting command of Federal forces, 175; refuses, 176; resigns his commission, 176; accepts Virginian command, 176; on Slavery, 176; opposed to Secession, 176; his view of State Rights, 176-177; defeats McClellan, 186; defeats Pope, 187; invades Maryland, 187; his proclamation, 189; fights McClellan at Antietam, 189; retires into Virginia, 189; defeats Hooker at Chancellorsville, 192; defeats Burnside at Fredericksburg, 192; invades Pennsylvania, 196; defeated at Gettysburg, 196; gets back unhammered, 196; outmanoeuvres Grant, 198; fights in the Wilderness, 198; his proposal to recruit Negroes, 199; effect of Sherman's march on, 201; attempts to join Johnstone, 201; surrenders to Grant, 202; his views on Fourteenth Amendment, 217 _Liberator, the_, founded by Garrison, 133; Lincoln denounced by, 148 Lincoln, Abraham, joins Republican Party, 147; his career and character, 148-149; his contest with Douglas, 150; debates with Douglas, 151; chosen candidate for the Presidency, 153; elected President, 155; objects to Crittenden Compromise, 161; South ignorant of character of, 163-164; defines issue of Civil War, 167; his Inaugural Address, 168-169; his policy, 171-172; sends supplies to Fort Sumter, 172; calls for soldiers, 174; returns Mason and Slidell, 183; refuses to supersede McClellan, 185; replaces McClellan by Pope, 187; effect of his personality on Maryland, 188; decides to issue Emancipation Proclamation, 189; his reply to Greeley, 190; defends proclamation as a military measure, 191; on Grant, 196-197; appoints Grant commander-in-chief, 197; prepared to compensate Southern slave owners, 199; re-elected, 199; opposition of Radicals to, 200; his policy of Reconstruction, 204; on Negro Suffrage, 204; last public speech, 207; assassinated, 208; his advantages lacked by Johnson, 210 "Little Giant, the," nickname of Stephen Douglas, 140 Longfellow on John Brown, 153 Long Island, Battle of, 27 Look-Out Mountain, Battle of, 198 Louisiana, a French colony, 9; ceded to Spain, 10; re-ceded to Napoleon, 68; bought by U.S., 68; Burr's plans regarding, 73-74; secedes from the Union, 161; Lincoln's plan for reconstruction of, 204; Negro government of, makes fraudulent returns, 225 Lovejoy, killed, 135 Lowell, James Russell, expresses sentiments of Anti-War Whigs, 121; his satire on Taylor's candidature, 124 _Lusitania_, the, sunk, 238 Lyon, Captain, commands Union forces in Missouri, 176 Macaulay on Calhoun's dispatch, 118