...right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent [italics mine] which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us. ... The God of nature and of nations has marked it for our...

...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...

...space of time. . . ."3 John L. O 'Sullivan termed the movement "our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence...development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us." The second reason was a fear of foreign nations, particularly...

...described in the New York Morning News of December 27, 1845, as "our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence...development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us." Manifest destiny became the catchword of the day. It was...

...obtained in order to fulfill "the right of our Manifest Destiny to overspread and to possess the whole continent, which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of Liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us." In the midst of these developments, General Paredes y Arrillaga,...

...the Democratic Review, John O'Sullivan declared that it was America's "manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence...development of the great experiment of liberty and federated government entrusted to us."'3 Dismayed by the speed and disruption of Northern industrial...

...true title to Oregon and Texas belonged to America "by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence...of the great experiment of liberty and federative self government entrusted to us." Manifest destiny included the themes of providence, progress, and...

...territory, O'Sullivan asserted that the American claim "is by right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the Continent which Providence has given for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us"...

...O'Sullivan had written the year before, ' [Our claim] is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence...of the great experiment of liberty and federative self-government entrusted to us.' In this mood, President Polk ordered General Zachary Taylor to occupy...

...asserted with typical bombast. "The American claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence...of the great experiment of liberty and federative self-government entrusted to us." Polk similarly blustered in public, but in private he arranged an...