Don't take my word for it. Read the debates.
Here is a rather good, and quite important, example, where he takes issue with the decision in Dred Scott:
"...Now, my opinion is, that the different States have the power to make a negro a citizen under the constitution of the United States, if they choose. The Dred Scott decision decides that they have not. If the State of Illinois had that power I should be against the exercise of it."
Abraham Lincoln, 4th Debate, Rejoinder
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