Victoria C. Woodhull: “The welfare and the individual rights of three-fourths of the people are at stake.”

Or will they sell their birthright for less than a “mess of pottage?” Is it necessary that some great calamity come before an awakening to the reality of the condition will occur?

It is well enough to cry peace when war rages, but the crying will not bring it.

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.

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