Talent Without Tact Is Only

The Republic Needed To Be Passed Through Chastening, Purifying Fires Of Adversity And Suffering: So These Came And Did Their Work And The Verdure Of A New National Life Springs Greenly, Luxuriantly, From Their Ashes.

If Any Young Man Is About To Commence The World, We Say To Him, Publicly And Privately, Go To The West

Nine-tenths Of The World Is Entertained By Scandalous Rumors, Which Are Never Dissected Until They Are Dead And, When Pricked, Collapse Like An Empty Bladder.

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.

While The Right Of Suffrage Is Conceded To Thousands Notoriously Ignorant, Vicious, And Drunken, ... A Constitutional Denial To Black Men, As Such, Of Political Rights Freely Secured To White Men, Is Monstrously Unjust And Irrational.