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As the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican Party, Lincoln
confronted Radical Republicans, who demanded harsher treatment of
the South, War Democrats, who called for more compromise, anti-war
Democrats (called Copperheads), who despised him, and irreconcilable
secessionists, who plotted his assassination. Politically, Lincoln fought
back by pitting his opponents against each other, by carefully planned
political patronage, and by appealing to the American people with his
powers of oratory. His Gettysburg Address became an iconic
endorsement of the principles of nationalism, republicanism, equal
rights, liberty, and democracy.

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