[BroJoeK]

quoting BJK: "Younger Pinckney claimed a lot of credit for writing the Constitution, and he is acknowledged to have inserted the fugitive slave clause into it."

DiogenesLamp: "And all the states of the Union voted for it."

Sure, just as Lincoln did in 1861, our 1787 Founders put Union first, abolition second.

[DiogenesLamp]

Sure, just as Lincoln did in 1861, our 1787 Founders put Union first, abolition second.

Given that the vast majority of the States were still slave states in 1787, had they tried to do abolition, there would have been no further Union.