His language cut to the quick.

His calumniators were made to feel the force of his biting sarcasm.

They were convicted of injustice, and all their resolutions of censure were withdrawn.

The victory was complete.
After the year 1838 John Quincy Adams had the effective support of Joshua R.Giddings from the Western Reserve, Ohio--who also fought a pitched battle of his own which illustrates another phase of the crusade against liberty.

The ship Creole had sailed from Baltimore to New Orleans in 1841 with a cargo of slaves.