Victoria C. Woodhull: “There was one way by which the slave war could have been avoided—the abolition of slavery.”

Steam and water have relieved muscle of nearly all its most laborious occupations and increased the capacity of production a thousand fold.

It is well enough to cry peace when war rages, but the crying will not bring it.

That kind of money which has elasticity, that will be plenty when business is active, and that can be readily put to other use for profit when business is less demanding, is the kind the prosperity of a country demands.

In such a condition of things, courts of justice, with all their attendant judges, bailiffs and attorneys-at-law, would find their occupation gone.