Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.

Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.

Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.