[DoodleDawg]

By the standards of that era, was Lincoln a Liberal or not?

The standards of the era means nothing to you. What counts, and all you care about, is your opinion of the standards of the era.

[DiogenesLamp]

The standards of the era means nothing to you.

It is not about what I prefer them to be, it is what I recognize them to be. I prefer that slavery hadn't been enshrined into the US Constitution, but i'm not going to lie about it and pretend it wasn't.