And you took the side on slavery compromise that probably would have been common and did, in fact, prevail by the majority. So this is an historic fact.

However, I’d note that misguided complaints about your hypothetical position bring up what I think is an interesting point.

Conservatives at the time America has faced its major decision points held what are now widely regarded by TODAY’s Conservatives (and general public) as being the wrong view. Very few (some, but let’s agree a minority) would argue that America should turn back the clock on the issues I cite below.

Examples where contemporary conservatives, in the whole (we can find individual exceptions of course), held what we now (almost) universally consider the wrong if not downright reprehensible view:
1. slavery
2. race discrimination
3. women and voting rights
4. social security (in its original form as a minimum anti-poverty program)
5. government mandates in issues of public health, water, air quality
6. public funding of infrastructure (think ‘rural electrification’)
7. minimum wage
8. desegregation

Will this list in 50 years of things that almost all consider obvious in retrospect include some minimum universal health coverage and allowing marriage between any two partners?

Which makes me wonder - if the prevailing conservative view at the time is so consistently proven wrong later, perhaps it says something about the difference between conservatism=’hanging on to status quo’ vs. conservatism=’a coherent political philosophy’ that can be applied sequentially to each issue.