Lincoln, Abraham, 32, 36;
in Republican party, 241, 242;
against Douglas, 255;
debate with Douglas, 256;
"house-divided-against-itself," 256;
Presidential timber, 257;
Chicago Convention of 1860, 261;
nominated for President, 263;
character, 263, 265;
election of, and South, 268;
conciliatory, 269;
inaugural, 272;
yields to radicals, 273;
saves Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, 275;
calls for volunteers, 282;
war to preserve Union, 289;
Douglas supports, 289;
calls for more men, 290, 320;
and finance, 292;
dark hours, 300;
promises emancipation, 302;
arbitrary arrests, 304;
opposition to, 304, 316;
hope in Grant, 317;
nominated for President by National Unionists, 320;
asked to withdraw, 321;
appoints day of thanksgiving, 321;
strongly supported, 322, 324.
Literature, flower of American culture, 226.
Live stock, exported by West, 29;
to cotton belt, 141.
Liverpool, capital of, invested in United States, 100, 205.
Livingston, Edward, Secretary of State, 65;
Minister to France, 78;
for Bank, 78;
and French claims, 85.
Loco-focos, 108.
London, capital loaned to West, 91;
in United States, 100, 205.
Longfellow, Henry W., 226.
Longstreet, A. B., 227.
Longstreet, General James, 299, 301;
sent to Bragg, 307.
Lopez, Narcisco, 198.
Louisiana, 8;
in cotton belt, 12, 86;
"slavery a blessing," 119;
secession of, 271.
Lovejoy, Elijah P., anti-slavery leader, 164;
murdered, 166.
Lowell, James Russell, 227.
Lowndes, William, 5.
Macon, Nathaniel, in Senate, 16.
McClellan, George B., at Cincinnati, 283;
drilling army, 293;
Peninsula campaign, 296;
failure, 298;
army withdrawn, 299;
removed from command, 299;
popular with army, 300;
restored to command, 301;
Antietam, 302;
again removed, 303;
mentioned for President, 317;
nominated by Democrats, 321.
McClelland, Robert, Secretary of the Interior, 232.
McCormick, Cyrus, 199, 202.
McCreary, James, 34.
McDowell, General Irvin, commanding in Virginia, 283;
Bull Run, 285, 299.
McDuffie, George, 6;
for Bank, 68;
debtor of Bank, 79, 82.
McLane, Louis, Secretary of the Treasury, 65;
Secretary of State, 78;
for Bank, 78.
McLeod, Alexander, trial in New York, 123.
Madison, James, in Virginia Convention of 1829, 10.
Maine, 14;
population, 39, 41, 48;
Democratic, 55, 105;
northeastern boundary settled, 124;
"Aroostook War," 124, 187, 264.
Malvern Hill, battle of, 298.
Manassas, battles of. _See_ Bull Run.
Mann, Horace, and public schools, 223.
Manufacturing, Cincinnati a center, 35;
growth in East, 1820-30, 41;
cotton and woolen, 42;
product and return on capital, 42;
factory life, 43;
men in control, 47;
industrial area, 47, 49;
transition from agriculture, 50;
political power, 54, 55;
eastern area, 187, 205.
Marcy, William L., in Polk's Cabinet, 147;
Secretary of State, 231, 234.
Marshall, John, 10, 22, 32, 51, 99.
Marshall, Thomas, 33.
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