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LOVEJOY, OWEN. 



LOWENTHAL, ISIDOR. 



nunciations of slavery contained in Rev. Mr. 

 Lovejoy's paper, a mob, mostly composed of 

 Missourians, crossed the river to Alton, and, 

 after destroying his press, murdered him. 

 Owen Lovejoy was present, and his life was 

 sought by the mob, but notwithstanding his 

 utter fearlessness of danger, he escaped death 

 at their hands, and from that day he devoted 

 himself not to revenging his brother's death, 

 but to seek the overthrow of slavery as having 

 been the cause of it. At that time the laws of 

 Illinois forbade the holding of anti-slavery 

 meetings, and visited those who participated in 

 them with fines. Mr. Lovejoy, who entered the 

 ministry (of the Congregational Church) soon 

 after his brother's death, and was pastor of a 

 church in Princeton, Bureau County, Illinois, 

 was in the habit of holding anti-slavery meet- 

 ings at different points throughout the State, 

 and when arrested, as he often was, and con- 

 victed and fined, lie invariably announced at 

 the close of the court at what time and place 

 the next anti-slavery meeting would be held. 

 He was often threatened with violence at these 

 meetings, but the lion-like spirit of the man was 

 only evoked the more strongly by such demon- 

 strations, and the bursts of his eloquence, as he 

 defended his position, thrilled his audience and 

 Avon for him many warm supporters. 



The authorities soon found that it was use- 

 less to punish a man of such a spirit for advo- 

 cating views which he conscientiously held, and 

 for which he was willing, if need be, to lay down 

 'iis life, and after a time these odious laws fell 

 into desuetude and eventually they were re- 

 pealed. In 1854, Mr. Lovejoy was elected to 

 the State Legislature, and in 1856 his district 

 sont him to Congress, where he continued by 

 successive reflections till his death. In Con- 

 gress he was always an active working member, 

 and an influential, eloquent speaker. His death 

 was the result of Bright's Disease of the Kid- 

 neys, and though he had suffered from it for 

 some time, his last sickness was brief. 



On the 22d of February, 1864, only a month 

 before his death, he wrote to his friend William 

 Lloyd Garrison, giving his views with reference 

 to Mr. Lincoln's reelection. The following were 

 the sentiments ho then expressed : 



" I write you, although ill-health compels me 

 to do it by the hand of another, to express to 

 you my gratification at the position you have 

 taken in reference to Mr. Lincoln. I am satis- 

 fied, as the old theologians used to say in regard 

 to the world, that if he is not the best conceiv- 

 able President he is the best possible. I have 

 known something of the facts inside during his 

 Administration, and I know that he has been 

 jv.st as radical as any of his cabinet. And 

 although he dous not do every thing that you 

 or I would like, the question recurs, whether it 

 ia likely we can elect a man who would. It is 

 evident that the great mass of Unionists prefer 

 him for reelection ; and it seems to me certain 

 that the Providence of God, during another 

 term, will grind slavery to powder. I believe 



now that the President is up with the average 

 of the House." 



LOWELL, CHARLES RUSSELL, an American 

 soldier, born in Boston, in 1835; died near 

 Cedar Creek, Va., October 20th, 18C4. He 

 was educated at the Public Latin School of 

 Boston, and in 1854, when scarcely nineteen 

 years of age, graduated at Harvard College 

 with the first honors. After several years of 

 travel in Europe he entered into commercial 

 pursuits, and at the outbreak of the present re- 

 bellion was superintendent of some iron-works 

 in Maryland. He immediately sought service 

 in the army, and was commissioned a captain 

 in the Sixth regiment of regular cavalry. Dur- 

 ing the next two years he saw much service 

 as a cavalry officer and as a member of Gen. 

 McClellan's staff, and after participating in the 

 Peninsular campaign and in the military oper- 

 ations in Virginia and Maryland of the suc- 

 ceeding autumn, was appointed early in 1863 

 to command the Second Massachusetts cavalry, 

 then organizing in the neighborhood of Boston. 

 In this capacity he on one occasion, by his cool- 

 ness and personal courage, repressed a danger- 

 ous mutiny among a portion of his command. 

 The regiment, upon being recruited to its full 

 number, was sent to Washington, where for 

 more than a year Col. Loweh 1 held command 

 of all the cavalry about the city, a post re- 

 quiring no little vigilance and activity, in view 

 of the daring depredations by Mosby's guerrillas, 

 whom his troopers frequently encountered and 

 dispersed. Becoming weary of this guard duty, 

 and longing for the opportunity to serve in a 

 regular campaign, he gladly transferred his 

 command to Sheridan's army in the valley of 

 the Shenandoah, and in every subsequent en- 

 gagement and reconnoissance showed such 

 ability and courage, that a brigadier-general's 

 commission would undoubtedly have been soon 

 conferred upon him, had he lived. He was 

 mortally wounded at the battle of Cedar Creek, 

 Oct. 19th, and died on the succeeding day. He 

 had hitherto seemed to bear a charmed life, 

 having had twelve horses killed under him 

 within three years, and escaped without a 

 wound. In social position, in culture, and in 

 intellectual gifts, Col. Lowell was one of the 

 most promising, young men that New England 

 has sent to the war. Almost every great quality 

 belonging to the soldier seemed to be his, and his 

 whole soul was absorbed in the cause for which 

 he fought and died. 



LOWENTHAL, Rev. ISIDOE, a philologist 

 and missionary of the American Presbyterian 

 Board of Missions, born in Posen, Prussian 

 Poland, 1827, killed in Peshawur, Northern 

 India, April 27, 1864. His parents were Jews, 

 his mother being a strict adherent to the Rab- 

 binical traditions or oral law. He was instruct- 

 ed carefully in the tenets of the Jewish faith, 

 and in his early childhood attended a Jewish 

 school, where he became familiar with the 

 Hebrew and the rudiments of science, and ex- 

 hibited that intense thirst for knowledge which 



