Victoria C. Woodhull: “What may appear absurd to-day will assume a serious aspect to-morrow.”

Whatever may have been the arguments favorable for the continuance of the institution of slavery, the destruction of it has rendered them nugatory, and but few of those who once used them could now be found to favor its resurrection.

To do so carries no conviction nor prophetic knowledge of what must be next, as a necessary sequence.

This conclusion rouses the spirit of independence in the laborer, and he determines to redress his wrongs.

What, then, should be the sphere of justice in maintaining equality in freedom?