Congressman Robert C. Winthrop famously invoked "the right of our manifest destiny to spread over this whole continent" in a debate preceding a House vote to end the joint Anglo-American occupation of the Oregon Territory. (By Matthew Pinsker)
Source Citation
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., ed., The Almanac of American History (New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1993), 250.
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