It is time for opposition to the annexation of Texas to cease.... Texas is now ours.... let their reception into the family be frank, kindly, and cheerful....  Other nations have undertaken... hostile interference against us.... limiting our greatness and checking the fulfillment of our Manifest Destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence God for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.   California will, probably, next fall away from Mexico.... the Anglo-Saxon foot is already on California's borders... armed with the plot and the rifle, and marking its trail with the school and colleges, courts and representative halls, mills, and meeting houses... John L. O'Sullivan, "Annexation," 1845 Question - What is John L. O'Sullivan point of view of America's destiny?

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It is time for opposition to the annexation of Texas to cease.... Texas is now ours.... let their reception into the family be frank, kindly, and cheerful.... 

Other nations have undertaken... hostile interference against us.... limiting our greatness and checking the fulfillment of our Manifest Destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence God for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions. 

 California will, probably, next fall away from Mexico.... the Anglo-Saxon foot is already on California's borders... armed with the plot and the rifle, and marking its trail with the school and colleges, courts and representative halls, mills, and meeting houses... John L. O'Sullivan, "Annexation," 1845

Question - What is John L. O'Sullivan point of view of America's destiny? 

 

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