Conversely, as Abraham Lincoln pointed out, it’s just as easy for the left to claim the mantle of preservation as it is for the right. “You say you are conservative,” he declared to the slaveholders. 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
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