Victoria C. Woodhull: “While preparing for further and greater conquests he also determined to immortalize his name by making of Nineveh a city…”

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.

To do so carries no conviction nor prophetic knowledge of what must be next, as a necessary sequence.

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?

A fact isolated from all connections loses its significance.