I have said a hundred times, and I have now no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States, to enter into the slave States and interfere with the question of slavery at all.
In a public address, Lincoln firmly stated his belief that free states had no right or inclination to interfere with slavery in the states where it was already established.
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