Victoria C. Woodhull: “Little did our noble sires imagine what a century would do with what they set in motion.”

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.

Why do they advocate any general government at all?

It is in the people themselves, and in the fundamental principles upon which society is built, and those which the people allow government to be administered upon.

In this way, labor may hope to arise from its present position of degradation to sit side by side with capital in all public and profitable positions and those of honor and trust.