Victoria C. Woodhull: “Can a system organized by a people perform acts not in the power of the people themselves to perform?”

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

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.

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

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