The Manifest Destiny of the United States

In 18 forty four, in considering texas annexation, because the whigs generally seem to oppose, a democratic journalist wrote an article and coined the term manifest destiny. It's got that anglo saxonist and anti catholic o rhetoric imbedded deep within. In other words, it's about who's going to occupy the territory. And what the whigs are doing than by opposing taxas annexation, is standing in the way of the obvious, god given destiny of the united states to expand westward. That's how they're talking about god. Providence is god's unfolding plan. The implication is: How you like that for haggling? I'm having a yard sale