On the recordOctober 16, 1854
These sympathies in the bosoms of the Southern people manifest in many ways their sense of the wrong of slavery, and their consciousness that, after all, there is humanity in the negro.
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gutenberg.orgAbraham Lincoln: “These sympathies in the bosoms of the Southern people manifest in many ways their sense of the wrong of slavery, and…”
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Speaking at Peoria, Lincoln argues that the inherent human sympathies of Southerners reveal their underlying recognition of slavery's wrongness and the humanity of enslaved people.
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