Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln (58 page)

Illinois River,
38–39

Illinois State Bank,
68

Indiana,
16
,
18–19

Indians of Northwest,
39–40

Iowa,
109
,
122

Irving, Washington,
26

Islam,
53

Israel,
54

Jackson, Andrew (Old Hickory),
26
,
156–157
,
182
,
293

     
conspiracy theory of,
46

     
as president,
45
,
46
,
49
,
68–69
,
92
,
236–237

     
temperament of,
45–46
,
62
,
63
,
125
,
206

Jackson, James,
155–156

Jacksonians,
45

     
See also
Democratic Party

Jaffa, Harry,
123

James I,
169

Jay, John,
209
,
234

Jefferson, Thomas,
7
,
26
,
137
,
194
,
267

     
correspondence of,
159–162

     
Declaration of Independence and,
162–167
,
239

     
descendants of,
35

     
diffusion theory of,
161–162

     
Lincoln, Abraham, and,
156–166

     
politics and,
2
,
44
,
116
,
158

     
triad of rights by,
143

Jesus,
53–54
,
59

     
metaphors for,
269–270

     
saying of,
279–280

Jews,
126

Johnson, Andrew,
217
,
227
,
252
,
278
,
288
,
298

Johnston, John (Lincoln’s stepbrother),
23–24
,
106

Johnston, Joseph E.,
295

Johnston, Sarah Bush.
See
Lincoln, Sarah Bush

Judaism,
53

Judd, Norman,
174–175

Kansas,
109
,
115
,
168–169
,
249

     
slavery and,
127–128

     
as state,
187
,
255

Kansas State Capitol,
168

Kansas-Nebraska Act,
110–118
,
120
,
126–128

Kentucky,
90
,
94
,
185
,
223
,
255

     
farms in,
17–18

     
land ownership in,
18

     
neutral,
216
,
222

     
schools in,
16

King Andrew,
46

King James Bible. See
Bible

Kirkbride, Eliza.
See
Gurney, Eliza

Know-Nothings.
See
American Party

Knox, William,
59

Lafayette, Gilbert du Montier,
25–26
,
153

Lake Michigan,
46–47

Lamartine, Alphonse de,
84

Latin,
28
,
44
,
241–242

Learning,
16–17
,
19–20

Lecompton Constitution,
127
,
130
,
141–142
,
148
,
176

Lee, Robert E,
287
,
289

Leutze, Emanuel,
250

The Liberator
(Garrison),
49

Liberia,
220
,
288

Liberty,
230–231
,
242–243

     
case for,
143–144
,
230–231

     
champions of,
6
,
33–34
,
84
,
99–101

     
genius of,
32

     
political institutions and,
61–64

     
Union and,
32–33

Liberty Party,
80
,
92–93
,
173

Life of General Francis Marion
(Weems),
65

The Life of Washington
(Weems),
7
,
33

     
chapters of,
31–34

     
purpose of,
27–31
,
59
,
96

Lincoln, Abraham,
286–287
,
297–301

     
appearance and characteristics of,
19
,
21–22
,
40
,
205–206

     
assassination and death of,
257
,
293–295

     
beard of,
178–179
,
206

     
cabinet of,
180–184
,
204–205

     
during childhood and youth,
1
,
3–4
,
13–24
,
37

     
children and family of,
24
,
81

     
chords, usage of,
192

     
courtship and marriage of,
41–43
,
71–75
,
228

     
Declaration of Independence and,
230–231
,
242–243

     
depression, fatalism, grief and,
41–42
,
48
,
72–74
,
76

     
education of,
3–4
,
16–17
,
40–41
,
76–77

     
humor and jokes of,
42
,
57–58
,
66
,
76
,
111
,
113–114
,
140
,
163
,
175–176
,
204
,
208
,
296

     
inauguration of,
180
,
230

     
Jefferson and,
156–166

     
lectures of,
140

     
letters and writings of,
8
,
40–141
,
56
,
60–61
,
68–69
,
153
,
184–187
,
276–277

     
midlife of,
107

     
names and,
270–271

     
paternity and heredity of,
14
,
34–35

     
poetry and,
59–61

     
riddles, storytelling and,
15
,
20–23
,
204
,
258–259
,
270

     
rube/boob persona of,
43–44
,
75
,
107
,
113
,
119
,
133
,
174
,
214

     
sadness and sentiments of,
206

     
skills of,
203–205

     
support for,
217–218

     
on value of hard work,
14–15
,
19
,
30

     
words and,
206–209

Lincoln, Abraham (paternal grandfather of the president),
13
,
256

Lincoln, Edward (president’s son),
81
,
105–106
,
257

Lincoln, Mary Todd (president’s wife),
120
,
258

     
characteristics of,
71–72
,
74
,
188
,
260–261

     
courtship and marriage to,
71–75
,
228

     
recollections of,
76

Lincoln, Nancy (president’s mother),
14
,
34–35

     
death of,
15
,
17
,
30
,
41
,
59
,
256

     
Zebedee riddle and,
15
,
20
,
22

Lincoln, Robert (president’s son),
81

Lincoln, Sarah (president’s sister).
See
Grigsby, Sarah

Lincoln, Sarah Bush (president’s stepmother),
38
,
273

     
marriage of,
16

     
on stepson,
16–17
,
19–21
,
23
,
55
,
187–188

Lincoln, Tad.
See
Lincoln, Thomas

Lincoln, Thomas (president’s deceased brother),
16

Lincoln, Thomas (president’s father),
7
,
38
,
55
,
165
,
236
,
255
,
268

     
characteristics of,
21
,
34–35

     
during childhood and youth,
13–14

     
death of,
24

     
on labor,
18–19

     
remarriage of,
16

     
on son,
18–21
,
149

     
storytelling and,
21
,
267

     
work of,
15
,
17–18
,
30

Lincoln, Thomas (president’s son),
81
,
270

Lincoln, William (president’s son),
81
,
260
,
270

Lincoln-Douglas debates,
149

     
of 1857,
124–126

     
of 1858,
111
,
128–138

     
Cooper Union,
144–148
,
151–154
,
158
,
171
,
233–234
,
280

     
joint,
131–138

     
in Peoria,
112–113
,
116–118
,
135
,
151
,
158
,
165
,
261
,
280
,
298

     
during presidential election of 1856,
121–122

     
in Springfield,
112
,
113–116

Lincolnisms,
113–114

Little Napoleon.
See
McClellan, George

Livingston, Robert,
162

Locke, David Ross (Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby),
208

Log Cabin Campaign,
70–71
,
107
,
174

Logan, Stephen,
75–76
,
87

Louisiana,
91
,
146

     
focus on,
289–290

     
plan,
290–291
,
299

Louisiana Purchase (1803),
80

Louisiana Territory,
91
,
109

Lovejoy, Elijah,
62–63
,
65
,
167

Lovejoy, Owen,
121

Lynchings

     
abolitionists on,
65–66

     
in Illinois,
4–5
,
62–63
,
65

     
mobs and,
4–5
,
62–63

     
in states,
4–5
,
62–63

Macbeth
(Shakespeare),
60

Madison, Dolley,
83

Madison, James,
2
,
95
,
152
,
154
,
156
,
209–210
,
227
,
233