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O'Sullivan, John (1813-1895) → Global Index  → Persons Index
American columnist. Co-Founder of The United States Magazine and Democratic Review in 1837 and its editor through all 43 volumes, i.e. from October 1837 (vol.1, issue 1) to October 1859 (vol.43, issue 2).
"Annexation" (July-August 1845): → 8.11-8.13
July-August 1845, "Annexation":
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Why, were other reasoning wanting, in favor of now elevating this question of the reception of Texas into the Union, out of the lower region of our past party dissensions, up to its proper level of a high and broad nationality, it surely is to be found, found abundantly, in the manner in which other nations have undertaken to intrude themselves into it, between us and the proper parties to the case, in a spirit of hostile interference against us, for the avowed object of thwarting our policy and hampering our power, limiting our greatness and checking the fulfillment of our manifest destiny [dust-in-yer-eye] to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplyin[g] millions. [...]
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