Victoria C. Woodhull: “It does not seem possible that any should be returned to office who entertain opinions antagonistic to the general…”

How has it been possible thus long for leaders to control the masses, except that the masses have permitted others to act for them, and that without rendering any account for such action?

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

To do so carries no conviction nor prophetic knowledge of what must be next, as a necessary sequence.

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.