Now, I aver further, that, in the instance to which his observation refers, namely, in the act of petitioning against the annexation of Texas to this Union, the motive was pure, the means appropriate, and the purpose virtuous, in the highest degree.
Quincy defends the act of petitioning against Texas annexation as a virtuous and appropriate action taken by women.
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He knew how little a majority of the men of his own time were disposed or qualified to estimate his character with justice.
Though conscious, being then in his seventy-eighth year, that he stood on the threshold of human life, he sought no relaxation from duty, no exemption from its performance.
They have transmitted that freedom to you; and upon you now devolves the duty of transmitting it unimpaired to your posterity.
Adams replied: "I have no hesitation to say I hold that act unconstitutional and void.
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