Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully,
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
