It was a lonely battle—“Our adversaries greatly outnumber us,” he told Madison upon arriving—yet he showed unflagging courage as he stared down a large audience of hostile faces.
He wrote non-stop for 7 months, the book flopped in his home state, in his hone state he and his ideas were held in great antipathy, and he would discourse on the topic for 6 weeks straight to people who did not want to hear it. He really believed in this cause despite all opposition.
