Victoria C. Woodhull: “Let us have truth, then, even if it strips away the last of our preconceived opinions.”

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

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?

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.

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.