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United States... world empire (United States of America, Congressional Record, Washington: Government Printing Office, vol. 33, part 1, 1900)

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Text: none Quote: [...] We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world. And we will move forward to our work, not howling out regrets like slaves whipped to their burdens, but with gratitude for a task worthy of our strength, and thanksgiving to Almighty God that He has marked us as His chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world. United States of America, Congressional Record , Washington: Government Printing Office, vol. 33, part 1, 1900, p. 704. [...] The founders of the nation were not provincial. Theirs was the geography of the world. [...] and they knew that the Republic they were planting must, in obedience to the laws of our expanding race, necessarily develop into the greater Republic which the world beholds to-day, and into the still mightier   Republic which the world will finally acknowledge as the arbiter, und...

Manifest Destiny and Canada (The Congressional Reporter: ... of the twelfth congress, ... commencing on the first Monday of November 1811, Printed at Concord)

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Text: none Quote: [...] The gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Randolph) has objected to the destination of this auxiliary force; the occupation of the Canadas and the other British possessions upon our borders, [...] I should not wish to extend the boundary of the U. States by a war, if Great Britain would leave us to the quiet enjoyment of independence; but considering her deadly and implacable enmity, and her continued hostility, I shall never die contented until I see her expulsion from North America and her territories incorporated with the United States. [...] The Congressional Reporter: containing, a list of members of the twelfth congress, the president's message, the public documents, and the debates on all interesting questions agitated during the session, commencing on the first Monday of November 1811 , Printed at Concord, [no. 8,]  p. 114 . [...] The waters of the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi interlock in a number of pl...

Manifest Destiny and North America (The United States Magazine, and Democratic Review, new series, vol. 17, 1845 Jul-Dec)

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Text: none Quote: [...] our [the United States's] manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions. [...] The United States Magazine, and Democratic Review , new series, vol. 17, 1845 Jul-Dec, [no. lxxxv, July & August, 1845,] p. 5 . Online Source:   babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015018403736&view=1up&seq=1 Book Images:

Virginia as the first Creation (Oldmixon; Moll, cart., The British empire in America, 1708)

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Text: none Quote:    Queen Elizabeth was her self so well pleas'd with the Account these Adventurers gave of the Country, that she honor'd it with the Name of Virginia , either because it was first discover'd in her Reign, a Virgin Queen; or, as the Virginians will have it, because it still seem'd to retain the Virgin Purity and Plenty of the first Creation , and the People their Primitive Innocence. Oldmixon, John; Moll, Herman, cart., The British empire in America, containing the history of the discovery, settlement, progress and present state of all the British colonies, on the continent and islands of America, with curious maps of the serval places, done from the newest surveys , London: Printed for John Nicholson ..., Benjamin Tooke ..., and Richard Parker and Ralph Smith ..., 1708, pp. 211 - 212 . Online Source:   archive.org/details/britishempireina00oldm Book Images:

Virginia as the first Creation (Stith, The history of the first discovery and settlement of Virginia, 1747)

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Text: none Quote: [...] the Queen herself was pleased to name the Country V irginia , in Memory of it's having been first found out in the Reign of a Virgin Queen. Or as some have been pleased to gloss and interpret it, because it still seemed to retain the Virgin Purity and Plenty of the first Creation, and the People their primitive Innocency of Life and Manners. [...] Stith, William, The history of the first discovery and settlement of Virginia: being an essay towards a general history of this colony , Williamsburg [Va.]: Printed by William Parks, 1747, p. 11 . Online Source:   https://archive.org/details/historyoffirstdi00instit Book Images:

New heavens and new earth (Columbus; Major, Select Letters of Christopher Columbus, 1847)

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Text: "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth : for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea." Revelation 21:1 "For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth : and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind." Isaiah 65:17 "For as the new heavens and the new earth , which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain." Isaiah 66:22 "Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth , wherein dwelleth righteousness." 2 Peter 3:13 Quote: [...] God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth, of which He spoke in the Apocalypse by St. John, after having spoken of it by the mouth of Isaiah; and He showed me the spot where to find it. [...] [...] I undertook another voyage to the new heavens and new earth, which had been hidden hitherto; [...] Columbus,...

Manifest Destiny and Canada (Miller, Great debates in American history, 14 vols., 1913, vol. 2)

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Text: none Quote: [...] The gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Randolph] has objected to the destination of this auxiliary force---the occupation of the Canadas and the other British possessions upon our borders [...]  [...] I should not wish to extend the boundary of the United by war if Great Britain would leave us to the quiet enjoyment of independence; but, considering her deadly and implacable enmity, and her continued hostility, I shall never die contented until I see her expulsion from North America, and her territories incorporated with the United States.    The waters of the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi interlock and the great Disposer of Human Events intended those two rivers should belong to the same people. Miller, Marion Mills, Great debates in American history: from the debates in the British Parliament on the Colonial Stamp Act (1764-1765) to the debates in Congress at the close of the Taft administration...