Victoria C. Woodhull: “Besides, these gradually consolidating interests are becoming too powerful and selfish to longer allow of the government…”

It will only be considered as a means to other and higher ends.

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.

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

With its destruction the lives of two great political parties passed away, and left the people with no distinct lines of demarkation.