What has made the wilderness to blossom as the rose?
Victoria C. Woodhull
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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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What has overcome time and space, and is now extending its arms to embrace the globe, that we may speak, and that the ends of the earth answer our call?
When legislation shall conform itself to general principles, instead of sectional, local or personal policy, and when its course shall be shaped by such broad action, it may be safely prophesied that the government it represents will be…
The great principle of unrestricted universal commerce can only be practically established by universal acquiescence in its wisdom and justice.
The political, national or personal advantages which are supposed to flow from restraints upon commerce, have nothing to do with the question of general reform.
The prophecies of the age point to this as a reform of sufficient magnitude to demand the immediate attention of the nations, and to call for a Christ to rise up for their salvation more powerful than the Democratic Party.
An international congress should be called to consider the subject, and to take proper measures for the inauguration of a system of general economy in production and consumption.
If its solution were possible now, coming generations would look back and bless us for the solving.
This is a vast problem, in the solution of which the whole world is vitally interested, and one which, sooner or later, must be solved.
The products of the world entering into commerce would localize themselves where they naturally belong—where most could be produced with the least labor; and, population obeying the laws of equalization, would adjust itself to the demands…
Under the rule of an unrestricted commercial intercourse throughout the world, the principle of supply and demand would control the movements of commerce without the aid of legislation; and, when once fully established, it would give…
Restrictions upon commerce is a system of commercial slavery, flowing from politic and special legislation, and is in violation of the eternal principles of right, because it renders equality in interchange impossible.