In all these cases it is your sense of justice and human sympathy continually telling you that the poor negro has some natural right to himself,--that those who deny it and make mere merchandise of him deserve kickings, contempt, and death.
Lincoln argues that an innate sense of justice reveals the natural right of a Black person to self-ownership and condemns those who deny it.
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