Abraham Lincoln
He got elected as a moderate, but it seems that this was just camouflage, and that he was actually a keen abolitionist.
abraham lincoln
The election of Lincoln as a Republican president, moderate on the slavery issue.
The election of Lincoln as a Republican president, moderate on the slavery issue.
Although die-hard "lost cause" modern confederates don't like it, Lincoln was a moderate on tariffs until the War required higher tariffs to finance it. Lincoln was originally a Whig and a Midwesterner where moderate tariffs were the accepted view. The fact that everyone knows Lincoln's views on slavery but almost no one correctly knows his views on tariffs helps to demonstrate that the Civil War was not about tariffs.
they believed in equality of all americans,regardless of their race
He believed that this was the best way to heal the nation's wounds. "Let 'em up easy."
The election of Lincoln as the first Republican president, after the Democratic Party had split into two factions. Lincoln had been elected because he was moderate on the slavery issue.
Abraham Lincoln was, like the majority of the Republican party in the 1860s, a moderate. The party was made up of moderates like Lincoln, who believed that the Civil War was about the preservation of the Union and that slavery could be abolished through gradual emancipation, and Radicals, who thought that slavery had to be abolished at once and that was the point of the War. Although gradually Lincoln became more steadfast in his views of immediate abolition (he was instrumental in passing the 13th amendment abolishing slavery), he always remained moderate.
moderate/radical republicans
A 1924-D cent is considered to be a "semi-key" coin among Lincoln cents. As of 09/2008, retail values are roughly $19 in worn condition $30 with moderate wear $110 if almost like new