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:''But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by "our fathers who framed the Government under which we live;" while you with one accord reject, and scout, and spit upon that old policy, and insist upon substituting something new. True, you disagree among yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. You are divided on new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the old policy of the fathers. Some of you are for reviving the foreign slave trade; some for a Congressional Slave-Code for the Territories; some for Congress forbidding the Territories to prohibit Slavery within their limits; some for maintaining Slavery in the Territories through the judiciary; some for the "gur-reat pur-rinciple" that "if one man would enslave another, no third man should object," fantastically called "Popular Sovereignty;" but never a man among you is in favor of federal prohibition of slavery in federal territories, according to the practice of "our fathers who framed the Government under which we live.''

:''But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by "our fathers who framed the Government under which we live;" while you with one accord reject, and scout, and spit upon that old policy, and insist upon substituting something new. True, you disagree among yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. You are divided on new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the old policy of the fathers. Some of you are for reviving the foreign slave trade; some for a Congressional Slave-Code for the Territories; some for Congress forbidding the Territories to prohibit Slavery within their limits; some for maintaining Slavery in the Territories through the judiciary; some for the "gur-reat pur-rinciple" that "if one man would enslave another, no third man should object," fantastically called "Popular Sovereignty;" but never a man among you is in favor of federal prohibition of slavery in federal territories, according to the practice of "our fathers who framed the Government under which we live.''

He also nominated [[conservative]] [[Stephen Johnson Field]] to the [[Supreme Court]] and foreshadowed future arguments by [[conservatives]] that opposed the [[Federal Reserve]]. Senate Minority Leader and [[Old Right]] [[Republican]] [[Everett Dirksen]], who helped write and pass the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] and the [[Civil Rights Act of 1968]], said Lincoln called himself a "conservative Republican" and that the Republican party "was the only party to still adhere to the gospel of Abraham Lincoln"<ref>https://youtu.be/lm6fnQ5no0o</ref> in a 1967 interview.

He also nominated [[conservative]] [[Stephen Johnson Field]] to the [[Supreme Court]] and foreshadowed future arguments by [[conservatives]] that opposed the [[Federal Reserve]]. Senate Minority Leader and [[Old Right]] [[Republican]] [[Everett Dirksen]], who helped write and pass the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] and the [[Civil Rights Act of 1968]], said Lincoln called himself a "conservative Republican" and that the Republican party "was the only party to still adhere to the gospel of Abraham Lincoln"<ref>https://youtu.be/lm6fnQ5no0o</ref> in a 1967 interview.