When analyzed, it thus appears that governments are independent of peoples, and always exist in some form while peoples come and pass away.
Victoria C. Woodhull
The Public Record
Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for the presidency, some disagree with classifying it as a true candidacy because according to the Constitution she would have been too young to be president if elected.
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It is evident that the old order of nature has completed a cycle, and that a new order will be commenced, and that, the new order is to spring from this country, and consequently, that we are its representatives.
It cannot be expected that the new order of events, we, as a country are inaugurating, will be characterized by the element of the old, just completed.
One of the principal features of natural events has been a tendency on the part of all great nations to acquire universal dominion.
Each in turn attempted it and failed, because of the imperfectly developed form of the government they sought to control by.
What are the evidences that all future forms may not fail from similar causes, or specially, that the form we represent will not fail?
The first and most important evidence is, that in its organic principles the Brotherhood of the Human Race is recognized.
All men are born free and equal, does not mean that all men born in the United States are free and equal, but that all men everywhere are.
This, then, is the basis idea upon which our Government is built; whether the structure is yet perfect or not the foundation is, and can never be overturned.
Another evidence is, that the world is becoming Americanized: that is, the world is assimilating to the American idea of freedom and equality.
All nations contribute to our strength, and by so doing render us not only peculiarly American in character, but cosmopolitan to the world.
Charity, with its long cloak of justice escaped, has long enough covered a multitude of sins.