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→‎Lincoln's conservatism: On second thought, I do not think Lincoln said anything about central banking. I don't know where I got that from.
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:''The chief and real purpose of the Republican Party is eminently conservative. It proposes nothing save and except to restore this government to its original tone in regard to this element of slavery, and there to maintain it, looking for no further change . . . than that which the original framers of the government themselves expected and looked forward to.''<ref>http://www.mrlincolnandfreedom.org/pre-civil-war/1859-1860/speech-columbus-ohio-september-16-1859/</ref>
 
:''The chief and real purpose of the Republican Party is eminently conservative. It proposes nothing save and except to restore this government to its original tone in regard to this element of slavery, and there to maintain it, looking for no further change . . . than that which the original framers of the government themselves expected and looked forward to.''<ref>http://www.mrlincolnandfreedom.org/pre-civil-war/1859-1860/speech-columbus-ohio-september-16-1859/</ref>
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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.
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He also nominated [[conservative]] [[Stephen Johnson Field]] to the [[Supreme Court]]. Senate Minority Leader [[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.
    
==Lincoln's style of writing==
 
==Lincoln's style of writing==
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