Victoria C. Woodhull: “If it is found that its power under the Constitution to remedy such evils is doubtful, amendments granting it should be…”

I have deliberately and of my own accord placed myself before the people as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States, and having the means, courage, energy and strength necessary for the race, intend to contest it to the close.

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.

The same laws that bring fruit to perfection and dissolution perfect and dissolve societies.