But after the firing on Fort Sumter, Reed "realised [sic] he had a country to save" and abandoned "narrow views" about states' rights.
But as a candidate Trump had abandoned those views, and he was forgiven: at gun shows this year, venders have been selling olive-green "Trump's Army" T-shirts, alongside shirts in red and white, lifeguard-style, marked "Waterboarding Instructor".
Labour leaders have not abandoned their view that Mr Osborne's cuts are proceeding too quickly.
Historians long ago abandoned the view that Eisenhower's was a failed presidency.
A segregationist in his early years, he later abandoned that view.
Putnam eventually agreed with these and other criticisms, and in the 1990s he abandoned the view he had created.
On October 24 , 2002 he abandoned his view that AOL was the best online service, and declared that Microsoft's MSN now offered "an overall cleaner, fresher look and feel".
Scientists have long abandoned the view that puberty inevitably induces periods of temporary insanity akin to that portrayed in "The Exorcist".
Much that is found in traditional Christian morality, with its shame about the body and guilt about sexual pleasure, and its glorification of piety, self-abnegation, and asceticism, might have to be abandoned if viewed rationally.
His first ventures in "imperialism"—a speech at the Crystal Palace in 1872, the purchase of the Suez Canal shares in 1875, and the proclamation of the queen as "Empress of India"—showed that he had abandoned the view, popular during the middle years of the century, that colonies were millstones around the mother country's neck.
