sentences:  However he made it clear that he was unalterably opposed to anything which would allow the expansion of slavery into any new states or territories.On December 6, Lincoln wrote to Congressman Orlando Kellogg, a Republican on the special House committee, saying that Kellogg should "entertain no proposition for a compromise in regard to the extension of slavery.The instant you do, they have us under again; all our labor is lost, and sooner or later must be done over.