Moderate Republicans

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Timeline Of Events Leading To The American Civil War - Compromise of 1850 Through 1860 Election
... in Ripon, Wisconsin in February, and subsequently meet in other Northern states, to form the Republican Party ... Republicans win most of the Northern state seats in the U.S ... Abraham Lincoln emerges as a Republican leader in the West (Illinois) ...
Factions In The Republican Party - By Ideology - Moderates
... See also Republican In Name Only and Compassionate conservatism Moderates within the GOP tend to be, to varying degrees, fiscally conservative and socially liberal, though there are others who are socially ... While they often share the economic views of other Republicans - e.g ... taxes, free trade, deregulation, welfare reform - moderate Republicans differ in that some are for same-sex marriage and gay adoption, legal access to and even federal funding for abortion, gun control ...

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    “If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are honored, the extremists of the other wing cry out against it. I suspect I am right in both cases.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “One will seldom go wrong in attributing extreme actions to vanity, moderate ones to habit, and petty ones to fear.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)