Victoria C. Woodhull
exploits involving innocent girls. Woodhull’s accusers claimed she had used the U.S. mail for the purpose of distributing obscene material. She spent Election Eve in a cell.
The platform of the Equal Rights Party was transformed into a gruesome circus. Although the sisters were found innocent of the charges in 1873 & 1874, they were discouraged beyond all hope. They immigrated to England and settled there. Though she occasionally lectured on her views Victoria C. Woodhull faded from the public eye. She has since been relegated to the annals of history as either a fraud or an addlepated fool. She was neither, and though extraordinary, lent certain brilliance to a somewhat lackluster age.
Victoria has many lessons to teach us – but her most important can be found in the following excerpt: “For mankind are one in spirit and an instinct bears along, Round the earth's electric circle, the swift flash of right and wrong; Whether conscious or unconscious, yet Humanity's vast frame Through its ocean-sundered fibres feels the gush of joy or shame; In the gain or loss of race all the rest have equal claim. Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the lift hand and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever twixt that darkness and the light.” (And The Truth Shall Make You Free: A Speech On The Principles Of Social Freedom, by Victoria C. Woodhull )
Sources:
Puz, Susan Kullman. “Legal Contender, Vicoria C. Woodhull: The Fisrt Woman to Run for President.” http://www.class.csupomona.edu/his/skpuz...
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