Legal tender: debated, 1, 203, 274, 275–
280, 286–287; Taney opposes, 203;
Congress authorizes, 203, 224;
Spaulding proposes, 223; war
financed by, 274–275; Miller and,
282–283. See also Bronson v. Rodes;
Chase, Salmon P.; Hepburn v.
Griswold; Legal Tender Cases; Roose-
velt v. Meyer; Veazie Bank v. Fenno
Legal Tender Cases, 284–287
Lewis, Ellis, 93
Lewis v. Lewis, 18
Lincoln, Abraham: as lawyer, 2, 3, 8–9,
18, 60, 113–114, 124, 288; Lyceum
Speech, 3; on honesty, 3–4; practice
in U.S. Supreme Court, 3, 18; at
Cooper Union, 4–5, 61–62; and
Dred Scott, 4, 7, 8, 30, 58–60, 61,
62–63; on slavery, 5, 29–30, 31, 59–
60, 61; on secession, 5, 30, 102,
287–289; on Constitution, 6, 7; view
of Supreme Court, 7–8, 17–18, 30–
31, 59–60; as commander in chief, 7,
69–70, 135; first inauguration, 12–
14, 28–32; calls on justices, 19–20;
and constitutional amendments, 31;
cabinet, 32–33, 123, 188, 210, 221–
222, 226–227, 237; and habeas cor-
pus, 68–71, 80–82, 304–306; and re-
organization of federal judiciary, 97–
99, 102; and appointment of Su-
preme Court justices, 102–104, 242;
and Vallandigham, 187–192;
Corning letter, 191–192, 312–313;
Gettysburg Address, 192, 315, 316;
assassination, 236–237; and Thir-
teenth Amendment, 240; estimates
of, 300–316
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 115, 142, 297
Lincoln, Robert Todd, 247
Lincoln, Thomas (Tad), 247
Lincoln, William Wallace (Willie), 112,
115
Logan, Mrs. John A., 207
Logan, Stephen T., 98
Lord, Daniel, 134
Lothrop, Thornton K., 136, 141–142
Low, Frederick F., 229
Luther v. Borden, 68, 86, 87, 189
Lyons, Lord, 122, 123
Marbury v. Madison, 83
Marr, Robert, 252, 261, 262
Marshall, John: death, 15; and Justice
Story, 21; on citizenship, 54; on ha-
beas corpus, 78, 85; and Marbury v.
Madison, 83; and McCulloch v.
Maryland, 275–276, 281, 282; bust
in Supreme Court, 292, 296, 297
Marvin, William, 131, 132, 134
McAllister, Matthew Hall, 103, 108, 178,
179, 180
McCardle, Ex parte, 269–271. See also
Yerger, Ex parte
McClellan, George B., 112, 212, 225, 228
McCulloch, Hugh, 237
McCulloch v. Maryland, 275–276, 281
McDonald, David, 248, 249, 250
McDonald, Joseph E., 249, 252, 253
McDougall, James, 294, 297
McLean, John: dissents, 18, 23, 33, 53–
54; Jackson appointee, 21; back-
ground and characteristics, 22–23;
political ambitions, 23–24, 219–220;
and Dred Scott, 23, 53–54, 56; op-
poses slavery, 54, 95; death, 94–95;
hopes Swayne will succeed him, 98;
and Jones v. Van Zandt, 217, 218
Medill, Joseph, 113, 230
Merrick, William, 99–100
Merryman, Ex parte, 65–91; Lincoln’s re-
sponse to, 80–83; as circuit court
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