Admit minority representation, and the Republican party in Massachusetts would be abolished, except that part who carry the loaves and eat the fishes.
Victoria C. Woodhull: “Admit minority representation, and the Republican party in Massachusetts would be abolished, except that part who carry…”
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Woodhull argues that allowing minority representation would significantly change the Republican party in Massachusetts.
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The chief value, then, of an intimate knowledge of the past is, that from it the future may be foreseen, and that the lesson it teaches may assist in the formation of aids to the natural order of things.
Every thinking person knows that no such persons or principles are in authority now, and that they have not been these many years.
It is in the people themselves, and in the fundamental principles upon which society is built, and those which the people allow government to be administered upon.
To begin a work right, is to have it half accomplished; and most powerfully does this apply in the matter of determining who shall be your representatives.