Victoria C. Woodhull: “You should know by this time that “the purity of the ballot box” is simply a “play upon words,” and that elections are…”

Every thinking person knows that no such persons or principles are in authority now, and that they have not been these many years.

In such a condition of things, courts of justice, with all their attendant judges, bailiffs and attorneys-at-law, would find their occupation gone.

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.

Thousands possessed of comprehensive principles in a semi state of application have sunk with them into obscurity for lack of appreciation and support.