“There is much controversy about the delivering up of fugitives from service or labor. The clause I now read is as plainly written in the Constitution as any other
of its provisions:
No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping
into another, shall in consequence of any law or regulation therein be discharged
from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom
such service or labor may be due."
2. Lincoln is expressing that he would execute the laws and follow the Constitution. What
law is he referring to in this passage?