 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1927 - 1048 pages
...our power, limiting our greatness and checking the fulfilment of our manifest destiny [italics mine] to overspread the continent allotted by Providence...free development of our yearly multiplying millions ".' Here, I am inclined to think, is the first appearance of " manifest destiny " — " our manifest... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1927 - 1058 pages
...our power, limiting our greatness and checking the fulfilment of our manifest destiny [italics mine] to overspread the continent allotted by Providence...free development of our yearly multiplying millions ".8 Here, I am inclined to think, is the first appearance of " manifest destiny" — "our manifest... | |
 | Ali A. Mazrui - Political Science - 1980 - 32 pages
...Magazine and Democratic Review of July 1845. The article referred to "the fulfillment of our Manifest Destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence...free development of our yearly multiplying millions". The phrase soon became popular with expansionist members of Congress, anxious for war with Mexico in... | |
 | William Anthony Camps - Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature - 1969 - 180 pages
...successor was (Tacitus, Annals 1.n eic.) not to advance the empire's existing frontiers. 10. 'Our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence...free development of our yearly multiplying millions'. J. O'Sullivan, in the US Magazine and Demoeratic Rfuiew, 1845. 'Take up the white man's barden . .... | |
 | Henry George, Kenneth C. Wenzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 338 pages
...Democratic Review, wrote that the annexation of Texas would herald "the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence...for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions."6 Such was the origin of this phrase that still lingers in American policy. In 1 846, Thomas... | |
 | Larry Sklenar - History - 2003 - 418 pages
...use of "Manifest Destiny" was in 1845, by John Louis O'Sullivan, who wrote: "Our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent allotted by Providence...free development of our yearly multiplying millions." Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, 552. 8. The description of the army enlisted man is from the New York... | |
 | Joy Hakim - History - 2003 - 438 pages
...wire behind her, while in front Indians and buffalo are in desperate retreat. % 4 /f tf our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence...free development of our yearly multiplying millions. / — Jane Cazeau, reporter, 1845 In 1846 Polk signed a treaty with Great Britain. England got western... | |
 | Tom Meltzer - Education - 2004 - 372 pages
...policy and hampering our power, limiting our greatness and checking the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence...free development of our yearly multiplying millions. GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE 285 Source: President James K. Folk's War Message to Congress, May 11, 1846... | |
 | United States. General Accounting Office - Land grants - 2004 - 238 pages
...on Americans to resist any foreign power that attempted to thwart "the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence...free development of our yearly multiplying millions." O'Sullivan further argued that such providential 1 Alan Brinkley, American History: A Survey (McGraw... | |
 | Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove - History - 2011 - 667 pages
...editor of the Democratic Review, used a phrase that would become famous, saying it was "Our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by providence...free development of our yearly multiplying millions." Yes, "manifest destiny." All that was missing in the plan was an incident. A patrol of American troops... | |
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... our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions. 
