Which of the following sentences from the article BEST explains the purpose of the journey westward? A. ride of one hundred miles from Independence has brought us into the midst of the scene the most grateful and animating my eyes ever beheld!
B. This morning the warlike news from England reached the camp, at the announcement of which all declared that they went equally determined to settle and to conquer.
C. They go to plant a new people in a new and attractive country—to create new states—to give to us a new commercial empire—to open a new field to the growing energies and wants of our expanding Republic.
D. We may expect a continual annual increase in their numbers, as the importance of Oregon and California becomes more fully known, the intervening difficulties removed, and the connexion with us more fully confirmed.