...editor in 1845, provided political and theological license for the United States to possess the whole continent, "which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment in liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us." Neutrality as espoused by Wilson during...

...progress.'2 In the July 1845 issue of the Democratic Review, John O'Sullivan declared that it was America's "manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the...development of the great experiment of liberty and federated government entrusted to us."'3 Dismayed by the speed and disruption of Northern industrial development,...

...editor of the Democratic Review, argued that the true title to Oregon and Texas belonged to America "by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread...development of the great experiment of liberty and federative self government entrusted to us." Manifest destiny included the themes of providence, progress,...

...tissues of rights of discovery, exploitation, settlement, contiguity, etc. . . . [The American claim] is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread...development of the great experiment of liberty and federative selfgovernment entrusted to us." 7 In 1598 "Padre Jesús" entered the homelands of the Pueblo...

...tissues of rights of discovery, exploration, settlement, contiguity, etc. . . . The American claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread...development of the great experiment of liberty and federative self-government entrusted to us. It is a right such as that of the tree to the space of...

...settlement, continuity etc.," proclaimed New York writer John O'Sullivan, who declared that it was the "right of our manifest destiny to overspread and...development of the great experiment of liberty and federative self government entrusted to us." 1 The entire Western Hemisphere, O'Sullivan prophesied,...

...O'Sullivan, a New York newspaper editor, memorably expressed this idea when he wrote that it was America's "manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the...given us for the development of the great experiment in liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us."5 Over the decades, O'Sullivan's "manifest...

...cobweb tissues of rights of discovery, exploitation, settlement, contiguity, etc. [The American claim] is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread...development of the great experiment of liberty and federative self-government entrusted to us." Quoted in Gutierrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers...

...inch nearer than it is now." In his editorial, O'Sullivan asserted that the American claim was "but the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and...development of the great experiment of liberty and federative self-government." The argument rested on a curious form of circular reasoning: By what right...

...general election. What validated the president's expansionist military policy, O'Sullivan wrote, was "the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and...development of the great experiment of liberty and federative self-government entrusted to us." Days later, the term began appearing in congressional...