Let a person be cast upon a fertile island, without pecuniary means, and he will live by labor from its fertility; but let him fall upon an utterly barren and sterile land, and all the millions of a Rothschild would not insure his existence.
Woodhull illustrates the necessity of labor for survival, regardless of wealth, using the metaphor of a fertile versus barren island.
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And this is no more true of the pauper laborers of Europe and the slave laborers of Asia than it is of the free labor of America.
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.
With its destruction the lives of two great political parties passed away, and left the people with no distinct lines of demarkation.