![]() ![]() Thompson over whether or not Soule could trick readers by forging a Greeley article. Īuthor Ralph Keyes also suggests Soule as the source, offering an account in which the line originated from a bet between Soule and Indiana Congressman Richard W. Selch, in a letter to William Deminoff on Dec. Wall wrote that Indiana State Library Newspaper Librarian John L. Wall wrote that an account of the true source of "Go West, young man" and Greeley's disavowal of being the author of the phrase is in Dictionary of Quotations by Bergen Evans and published by Delacourte Press in New York in 1968 (p. Grinnell College historian Joseph Frazier Wall claims that Greeley himself denied providing that advice and " the rest of this life vigorously protesting that he had never given this advice to Grinnell or anyone else. It is a wide country, but I do not know just where to go." "It is all room away from the pavements." There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles." "That," I said, "is very frank advice, but it is medicine easier given than taken. Grinnell reports the full conversation as: Josiah Bushnell Grinnell claimed in his autobiography that Horace Greeley first addressed the advice to him in 1833, before sending him off to Illinois to report on the Illinois Agricultural State Fair. It is one of the most commonly quoted sayings from the nineteenth century and may have had some influence on the course of American history. The phrase came to symbolize the idea that agriculture could solve many of the nation's problems of poverty and unemployment characteristic of the big cities of the East. He saw the fertile farmland of the west as an ideal place for people willing to work hard for the opportunity to succeed. Webster advised him, “Go out there, young man go out there and behave yourself, and, free as you are from family cares, you will never regret it.” Samuel took the advice. As they spoke, Merritt admitted his fascination with the gold rush drawing people to California. Impressed, Webster befriended the young doctor. Webster lived in nearby Marshfield at the time. Merritt, originally from Harpswell, Maine, completed a difficult operation on a friend of the aging statesman Daniel Webster. In 1849, Samuel Merritt was making a name for himself as a physician in Plymouth, Mass. ( See text image)." The actual editorial instead encourages American Civil War veterans to take advantage of the Homestead Act and colonize the public lands. We earnestly urge upon all such to turn their faces Westward and colonize the public lands. The closest I could come is in 'The Homestead Law' article, page 4 column 4, where he mentioned: '. In 2010, Timothy Hughes of the "Rare & Early Newspapers" blog examined Greeley's writings and concluded that this text also does not appear in the Jissue of the Tribune: "Here is the Tribune of that date and I've scoured through the issue yet never found the quote. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations gives the full quotation as, "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country", from Hints toward Reforms (1850) by Horace Greeley, but the phrase does not occur in that book. like if you knock someone/something over, if you steal something from someone, if something goes flying, etc.- attributed to Horace Greeley, New-York Daily Tribune, J I think it is just kind of like an exclamation/sound effect, if you will, used when something funny happens. ![]() I was mistaken I think about what I said about it being used when something goes flying. I would recommend you just listen and pay attention to when the streamers say it because it is almost always in direct response/direct correlation to something that happened or something they did! I hope this helps a bit! □Īctually I agree with too. like if you knock someone/something over, if you steal something from someone, if something goes flying, etc. For example, Dang his sandwich just got yoinked right out of his hand by a seagull (actually happened to my brother in law) Otherwise I’d probably say “Dang, his sandwich just got snatched right out of his hands by a seagull” -there are a lot of words that mean steal, but this one is commonly used. I have heard it used with the other meaning though to mean like to steal. If I were playing halo or something and got catapulted by something or went flying or shot something or exploded something to go flying I might say “yoink!” while laughing In your situation they’re probably saying it when something goes flying. I’ve heard yoink with both of these meanings. ![]()
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