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290 INDEX Kitchen cabinet, Jackson s, i. 285, 290. Know-nothing party, ii. 166, iii. 6. Knox, Gen. Henry, i. 27, 43; secre tary of war under Washington, 38, 133, 134. Knox, Philander C., attorney-general under McKinley, iv.82; secretary of state in Taft s cabinet, 174; so- called "dollar diplomacy" invented by, 182, 185-186. Kortright, Lawrence, i. 212, 214. Kosciuszko, i. 140. Kossuth, Louis, ii. 161. Koszta, Martin, affair of, ii. 189. Labor, the menace found in combina tions of, iv. 107-108; attitude of President Roosevelt toward, 108- 110. See Strikes. Labor unions, an enemy to California, iv. 123. Lafayette, Madame de, i. 214. Lafayette, Marquis de, i. 30; na tional reception of, 207. "Laird Rams," case of the, i. 245. Lake-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway Association (1909), iv. 136. Larnar, L. Q. C., iii. 254. Lament, Daniel S., secretary of war under Cleveland, iii. 264. La Quasima, battle of, iv. 70. Laurens, Henry, i. 78. Lawrence, Charles B., iii. 130. Lear, Washington s secretary, i. 44. Lee, Arthur, minister to Spain, i. 75. Lee, Fitzhugh, Cleveland s consul- general to Havana, iii. 270; re tained as consul-general in Cuba by President McKinley, 55. Lee, Francis Lightfoot, i. 125. Lee, General Henry, eulogy on Wash ington by, i. 45. Lee, Henry, vice-presidential candi date in 1832, i. 298. Lee, Richard Henry, i. 121, 122; moves Declaration of Independence, 73; a leader in opposition to rati fication of Federal constitution by Virginia, 178; U. S. senator from Virginia, 200. Lee, Gen. Robert E., i. 55, ii. 266, 279, 282, 283, iii. 47 ff.; takes command of Confederate forces, ii. 263; sur render of, ii. 291, iii. 62-63; pun ishment for treason, threatened by Johnson, averted through efforts of Grant, iii. 65-66. Lee, Mrs. Robert E., quoted on Mrs. Pierce, ii. 201. Legare, Hugh S., Tyler s attorney- general, ii. 74, 78. Leigh, Benjamin Watkins, ii. 64. Lemmon slave case, iii. 199-200. Lenox, James, i. 42. Leonard, Daniel, loyalist articles by, i. 69. "Leopard" and "Chesapeake" af fair, i. 145, 186, 224-225. Lewis, Andrew, i. 56. Lewis, Edward Parke Custis, i. 58-59. Lewis, Fielding, i. 56. Lewis, George, i. 56. Lewis, Major Lawrence, i. 55, 56, 58. Lewis, Morgan, ii. 4. Lewis, Robert, i. 56. Lewis, William B., i. 280, 285, 289. Liberal Republicans, iii. 85. Lincoln, Abraham, grandfather of President Lincoln, ii. 247-248. LINCOLN, ABRAHAM (16th President), " spot resolutions " of, ii. 104; birth, ancestry, and education, 247-250; experience as pioneer merchant s assistant, 250-251; service as of ficer and private in Black Hawk war, 251; unsuccessful canvass for election to Illinois legislature, 251; store-keeping experience, 252; post master of New Salem, 111., 252; serves four terms in state legisla ture, 252; builds up law practice, 252-253; elected to congress in 1846, 253; an influential exponent of principles of Whig party, 253; returns to successful practice of law, 253-254; roused by repeal of Missouri compromise and encroach ments of slavery in new territories, 254; retires from senatorship con test in favor of Lyman Trumbull, 254-255; becomes head of new Re publican party in Illinois, 255; speeches against pro-slavery reac tion, and famous debates with Douglas, 255-257; speech at Cooper Institute, New York, 258; election to presidency, 258-259; cabinet, 259-260; treatment in inaugural address of acts of secession, 260- 261; action upon attack on Fort Sumter and beginning of war, 261- 262 ; measures of, looking to eman cipation of slaves, 266-267; final proclamation of emancipation, 272; works for passage of thirteenth amendment to constitution, 273 274; Gettysburg speech, 280-281; appoints Grant commander-in- chief, 281; letter to Grant, 282; renominated and re-elected in 1864, 284-285; lofty eloquence and aus-