Legal-tender Act, 281 ; author of
the, 285; assumed necessitv for,
286-288, 315-317; origin of* 288;
alternative to, 290-296; hostility
of Secretary Chase to, 301 ; causes
of Chase's conversion to, 302 ;
House debate on, 303-310 ; Senate
debate on, 310-313; passage of,
313; Supreme Court decision on
the, 392, 393; effort to reverse de-
cision on the, 395-398, 400.
Lincoln, Abraham, President of the
United States, decides on adhesion
to the Declaration of Paris, 239;
his attitude towards the recogni-



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ticta of uulbeni bclli^reDcy, SAT,
268.
nans, gavernmsnl, principliis of,
397-399.
Duiaiuim, Napoluoa's abject in mi-
quiring, 122 ; his eecret inBtruu-
tiDDS regniling, IH, 12&j dsmantU
iltlivery n(, [mm Spoin, 126; iigl-
Uleg Ihe United Sutei, 141.
Paul, HaitiBD brigadier

ouvertuni, ToUBaHint, GovurDor of
St. DomiiiKO, 12b ; hii cooMilu-
tign, 139 ; Nnpoieon'B views re-
girding, lSS-131; Nnpoleon'B let-
ler to, 133, 133] begiriE war, 139;
bolda the moantaine, 144; subtnita,
KB, 146; to be arreatGd, 148, 149;
seized and sent to Fnace, lMI-153;
imprisoned iii UieFortreaaof Joux,
153 ; no proota ot his goilt, 1B3;
rigor of hia imprlBonmeat, 154,
ISS; his death, 1S5 ; his opinion of
Napoleon and Leclerc, 15T; his
arrest not enuugli to save Leeterc,



Lovejoy, Owen, member ot Con-
groMi, 309.
Lyons, l.oril, Britiab mioisler at
Wsshingtnn, 943, 345, 2IHJ-S63 ;
his report In Eunnell on the in-
tended adhEsion of the United
Slates tu the Declaration oi Paris,
248, 254, 3T1; with Mercier eoni-



218, 249; reports Scward'a con
plaint, 349; reporta Seward's ri
marks on adhesion to the Declsn
tioQ of Paris, 359-363.
HoCuuocn, HcoH, Secretary ot
the TreasDiy, his policy aa to gold
fluctuatJons, 335.
HcCnlloch, J, R., his theory on Ihe
fluctuation in gold, S21.
HcHenry, Jamea, S47.
