Victoria C. Woodhull: “Decrees are sealed in Heaven’s own chancery, Proclaiming universal liberty.”

Prisons would be converted into asylums and workshops for the weak and unfortunate, and their keepers into superintendents and teachers.

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?

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…