District after district sent champions to his side.

States reconsidered, and resolved in his behalf.

He saw the tide was turning, and then struck one bold blow, not now for freedom of petition and debate, but a stroke of bold and retaliating warfare.

He offered a resolution declaring that the following amendments of the constitution of the United States be submitted to the people of the several States for their adoption: From and after the fourth day of July, 1842, there shall be, throughout the United States, NO HEREDITARY SLAVERY, but on and after that day every child born within the United States shall be FREE.
With the exception of the Territory of Florida, there shall, henceforth, never be admitted into this Union, any STATE the constitution of which shall tolerate within the same the existence of SLAVERY.
In 1845, the obnoxious rule of the House of Representatives was rescinded.
The freedom of debate and petition was restored, and the unrestrained and irrepressible discussion of slavery by the press and political parties began.

For the rest, the work of emancipation abides the action, whether it be slow or fast, of the moral sense of the American people.