...accomplished, certain, and not to be disputed. From this threshold we read the future. " The untransacted destiny of the American people is to subdue the continent...rush over this vast field to the Pacific Ocean — to animate the many hundred millions of its people, and to cheer them upward — to set the principle...

...its value is the characteristic of a narrow heart and a peddling politician. * * * The untransacted destiny of the American people is to subdue the continent...rush over this vast field to the Pacific Ocean — to animate the many hundred millions of its people, and to cheer them upward — to set the principle...

...theater for the fulfillment of eschatological prophecy. As William Gilpin wrote in 1846: The untransacted destiny of the American people is to subdue the continent...rush over this vast field to the Pacific Ocean ... to regenerate superannuated nations ... to confirm the destiny of the human race — to carry the career...

...destiny of the American people," wrote William Gilpin in 1846, expressing the convictions of many, "is to subdue the continent— to rush over this vast field to the Pacific Ocean ... to establish a new order in human affairs."18 While the precise nature of the historical project varied...

...Geographical, Social, and Political [Philadelphia, 1874 (quoting a letter of 1846)], p. 130.) The untransacted destiny of the American people is to subdue the continent...rush over this vast field to the Pacific Ocean — to animate the many hundred millions of its people, and to cheer them upward — to agitate these herculean...

...Manifest Destiny, William Gilpin, reported to the United States Senate, in 1846, that "the untransacted destiny of the American people is to subdue the continent, to rush over this vast field to the Pacific Ocean."14 National growth, in this report, demonstrates the efficacy of the nation's democratic principles:...

...Manifest Destiny, written in 1846 as the nation approached the Mexican Borderlands: The "untransacted" destiny of the American people is to subdue the continent...rush over this vast field to the Pacific Ocean — to animate the many hundred millions of its people, and to cheer them upward . . . — to teach old nations...

...the politician; Gilpin's that of the salesman or evangelical preacher. Gilpin wrote: The untransacted destiny of the American people is to subdue the continent...rush over this vast field to the Pacific Ocean — to animate the many hundred millions of its people, and to cheer them upward . . . — to agitate these...

...preparing documents encouraging American westward expansion for the Senate in 1846: The untransacted destiny of the American people is to subdue the continent...rush over this vast field to the Pacific Ocean - to animate the many hundred millions of its people, and to cheer them upward ... to teach old nations...

...beauty that seems lying in wait everywhere in the beautiful expanses of the desert. The untransacted destiny of the American people is to subdue the continent...to rush over this vast field to the Pacific Ocean. — WILLIAM GILPIN, Mission of the North American People Nothing must slow him down. Slowness is his...