I am very loath in any case to withhold my assent to the enjoyment of property acquired or located in good faith; but I do not admit that good faith in taking a negro to Kansas to be held in slavery is a probability with any man.
In a letter to Joshua Speed, Lincoln expressed his reluctance to deny property rights but asserted that taking an enslaved person to Kansas could not be considered an act of good faith.
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