LIBERIA. 



LINSLEY, JOEL H. 



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himself to his work most faithfully and assid- 

 uously. His death was caused by apoplexy, 

 superinduced by the intense heat. 



LIBERIA, a republican state of Western 

 Africa, founded in 1822 by free negroes from 

 the United States of North America, under 

 the auspices of the American Colonization So- 

 ciety. As the frontier of the republic is not 

 fixed, its area cannot be ascertained. It is es- 

 timated at about 9,567 square miles. The ex- 

 tent of the territory along the Guinea coast is 

 about 225 miles. The population, in 1867, 

 was estimated at 18,000 civilized and 700,000 

 uncivilized negroes.* The President of the re- 

 public is elected for a term of two years, and 

 may be reflected at the expiration of his term. 

 At the presidential election held in 1867, none 

 of the candidates received an absolute majority, 

 and the election consequently devolved upon 

 the Legislature, which elected J. Spriggs Payne ; 

 Vice-President, Joseph J. Gibson. The Cabinet 

 was composed as follows : Secretary of State, 

 J. Nostedler Lewis (January 7, 1868); Fi- 

 nances, Daniel E. Beams (February 7, 1868) ; 

 Attorney-General, W. M. Davis (January 7, 

 1868) ; Comptroller of the Treasury, John R. 

 Freeman (February 14, 1868) ; Treasurer, Bev- 

 erly V. R. James (January, 1868). The Uni- 

 ted States are represented in Liberia by a min- 

 ister-resident and consul-general (at present, 

 John Seys, who was appointed in 1866). The 

 budget for 1868 estimates the receipts at $108,- 

 297 ; the expenditures at $106,745 ; surplus, 

 $1,552. The exports of 1866 were estimated 

 at about $400,000. 



LIECHTENSTEIN, a principality, which, 

 until 1866, formed part of the German Con- 

 federation ; but has been, since 1866, without 

 connection with any other State of Germany. 

 Prince, Johann II., born October 5, 1840 ; suc- 

 ceeded his father November 12, 1858. Area, 

 62 square miles; population, in 1867, 8,320. 

 Revenue and expenditures amount to about 

 55, 000 florins annually. 



LINCOLN, LEVI, LL. D., an eminent citizen, 

 statesman, and jurist, of Massachusetts, born 

 in Worcester, Mass., October 25, 1782 ; died 

 in that city, May 29, 1868. He inherited from 

 his distinguished father a singular capacity 

 for public affairs. He was early instructed in 

 the rudiments of classical knowledge, and en- 

 tered Harvard College, whence he graduated 

 in the class of 1802, and, having studied law in 

 his father's office, was admitted to the bar in 

 1805, and began practice in Worcester. He 

 was a member of the State Senate in 1812, 

 and from 1816 to 1822 represented the town 

 in the House of Representatives ; was a mem- 

 ber of the Constitutional Convention of 1820 ; 

 was Speaker of the House in 1822, when a ma- 

 jority of the members were opposed to him 

 in political sentiments; was Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor in 1823 ; associate justice of the Supreme 



* See the ANNUAL AMERICAN CYCLOPAEDIA for 1867 

 for a list of Presidents from 1848 to 1868, and for an ac- 

 count of the Legislature. 



Court in 1824; Governor from 1825 to 1834; 

 representative in Congress, from 1835 to 1841 ; 

 collector of the port of Boston under President 

 Harrison, and subsequently in various places 

 of duty and service for the State and city to 

 which he belonged. In the convention of 

 1820, which contained the flower of the talent 

 of the Commonwealth, others bore a more ac- 

 tive, but none a more creditable part. He 

 spoke without ornament or pretension, always 

 with clearness and to the point. The period 

 during which he administered the State gov- 

 ernment is often referred to as one of the high- 

 est political felicity. He was chosen by the 

 concurrence of all parties, when the singular 

 desire prevailed that the best man should be 

 selected for office without reference to names 

 that had lost their meaning. When he retired 

 from office, it was the universal testimony that 

 Massachusetts had never had a better chief ma- 

 gistrate. His retirement from public life was 

 not made an excuse for abandoning labor 

 where his experience, judgment, and unim- 

 paired energy could be of service. When the 

 town of Worcester became a city in 1848, the 

 first citizen was naturally selected as the first 

 mayor, and its requirements were met with 

 unfailing zeal and fidelity. He was for many 

 years president of the Worcester Agricultural 

 Society, and a regular exhibitor at its annual 

 fairs. He was a Fellow of the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member and 

 counsellor of the American Antiquarian So- 

 ciety, and a member of the Massachusetts His- 

 torical Society. The honorary degree of Doc- 

 tor of Laws was conferred upon him by Wil- 

 liams College in 1824, and by Harvard College 

 in 1826. The last office of a public nature 

 conferred upon him was to give one of the elec- 

 toral votes of Massachusetts for Abraham Lin- 

 coln in 1864, when the exigencies of the 

 country seemed to have renewed his youth, 

 and to have stimulated anew the patriotism 

 which neither time nor his long retirement 

 from its affairs had begun to extinguish. 



LINSLEY, Rev. JOEL HAEVET, D. D., a Con- 

 gregational clergyman and college president, 

 born in Cornwall, Vt., July 16, 1790 ; died in 

 Greenwich, Conn., March 22, 1868. He pur- 

 sued his preparatory studies for college under 

 the tuition of Rev. Jedediah Brown, pastor of 

 the Congregational Church in Cornwall, entered 

 Middlebury College at the age of seventeen, 

 and graduated in the class of 1811. After 

 spending eighteen months in the study of law, 

 he was appointed tutor in Middlebury College, 

 and remained there two and a half years. In 

 1815 he was admitted to the bar, and practised 

 law in Middlebury for seven years. His choice, 

 however, had been from the first the ministry, 

 and, having become satisfied in regard to some 

 points of religious experience, he commenced a 

 course of theological study, was licensed in 

 June, 1822, attended lectures at Andover during 

 one summer, and then accepted an appointment 

 as a domestic missionary in South Carolina. 



