The very effort of a late institution in opposition to physical freedom precipitated upon it its own destruction; such will doubtless be the result of an attempt now being made by a powerful institution to rivet religious bondage upon its subjects.
Woodhull warns that attempts to impose religious constraints will lead to their own downfall, as seen in history.
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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.
Or will they sell their birthright for less than a “mess of pottage?” Is it necessary that some great calamity come before an awakening to the reality of the condition will occur?
Charity, with its long cloak of justice escaped, has long enough covered a multitude of sins.
With its destruction the lives of two great political parties passed away, and left the people with no distinct lines of demarkation.