Victoria C. Woodhull: “Don’t flatter yourselves, gentlemen despots, that you are going to escape under that assumption.”

At no time since the close of the Revolutionary War has there been a time more fitting and inviting for such a work.

Steam and water have relieved muscle of nearly all its most laborious occupations and increased the capacity of production a thousand fold.

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.

Being so vastly in the majority, every office should be filled by them.