If you think that now, and did not think it then, the next thing that strikes me is to remark that there has been a change wrought in you, and a very significant change it is, being no less than changing the negro, in your estimation, from the rank of a man to that of a brute....
Lincoln observes a significant shift in public opinion, where some now regard Black people as brutes rather than men, a change he finds alarming.
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