It was a grand—almost a fatally grand—mistake which the people made when they considered that they had obtained complete freedom when they emancipated themselves from the so-called “tyranny” of England.
Woodhull critiques the belief that freedom was fully achieved after the American Revolution, suggesting it was a misconception.
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Where are all the great of the past; its orators, philosophers and statesmen; Confucius, Zoroaster, Moses, David, Solomon, Lycurgus, Demosthenes, Cicero, Bonaparte, Washington, and many others, of all nations and climes, to whom history…
Who will dare to assert that they are not even now seeking another Moses to lead “His people” up out of Egypt?
Are not their minds expanded to the comprehension of the great principles of governmental justice?
Prisons would be converted into asylums and workshops for the weak and unfortunate, and their keepers into superintendents and teachers.