President stated the following: "in this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. with it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. whoever moulds public sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces judicial decisions."

President Abraham Lincoln, is the right answer.

Explanation:

Abraham Lincoln served the post of the 16th U.S. President. His tenure began from March 1861 until his murder in April 1865. He led the U.S. throughout the Civil War, its most ferocious combat and its greatest virtuous, legal, and political deadlock. It was during his presidency that he preserved the Union, emancipated the social system of slavery and strengthened the federal government, and refurbished the economy of the U.S.

it gave them more rights