Lincoln’s election showed the strength of the feeling against the peculiar institution; my candidacy for the Presidency will, I confidently expect, develop the fact that the principles of equal rights for all have taken deep root.
Woodhull draws a parallel between Lincoln's election and her own presidential candidacy, highlighting the deep-rooted principles of equal rights.
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Churches would be converted into lecture-rooms; and preachers, now hurling their anathemas against unrepentant sinners, would become professors of the great principles through and by which the world, and all things, have been brought from…
Are not their minds expanded to the comprehension of the great principles of governmental justice?
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Prisons would be converted into asylums and workshops for the weak and unfortunate, and their keepers into superintendents and teachers.