Victoria C. Woodhull: “Yet stand they do, and with contemptuous pride, Fling Reason, Progress, Hope and Faith aside.”

It is well enough to cry peace when war rages, but the crying will not bring it.

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.

Can mouldering relics, or can fossiled creeds, Provide the quickening age her mighty needs?

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