Victoria C. Woodhull: “Can a system organized by a people perform acts not in the power of the people themselves to perform?”

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?

Production lies at the basis of all progress.

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.

This conclusion rouses the spirit of independence in the laborer, and he determines to redress his wrongs.