On the recordOctober 16, 1854
The great majority, South as well as North, have human sympathies, of which they can no more divest themselves than they can of their sensibility to physical pain.
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In his Peoria speech, Lincoln asserts the inherent human empathy shared by people across the nation, regardless of their region.
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