In the early days of the republic, which was constructed by men whose souls were imbued with these principles—or at least the fraternal principle—it may be fair to admit that something nearly assimilating to the true kind of government did exist.
Woodhull reflects on the early republic's alignment with fraternal principles of governance.
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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?
If he will not labor, society should compel him.
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.
To do so carries no conviction nor prophetic knowledge of what must be next, as a necessary sequence.