1845 · New York
by Wilkes, George
, octavo, 23, [1] pp., removed from bound volume, lacking wrappers, text has scattered foxing, else very good.
Called the "second edition" on the titlepage as it first appeared in the author's History of Oregon, also published in 1845. The earliest issue's preface was dated June 1845, this issue's preface is dated November 1845. "
"The author in this work reflects upon the country's strong spirit of Manifest Destiny: "The Railroad is the Great Negotiator, which alone can settle our title more conclusively than all the diplomatists in the world. Let it but take us to the dividing ridge and spread before our choice the fields of Oregon and the plains of California, and the acquisitions\ of the latter and the title of the former will be decided without dispute… Arouse then, America, and obey the mandate which Destiny has imposed upon you for the redemption of a world! Send forth upon its mighty errand the spirit of the enfranchised man … till it enlarges the boundaries of freedom to the last meridian, and spreads its generous influence from pole to pole!"
One of the earliest transcontinental agitations; framed while California was still a Mexican province, an Oregon terminus was planned." – Howes W-419 (b); Eberstadt 113:593; Sabin 103999. (Inventory #: 31202)
Called the "second edition" on the titlepage as it first appeared in the author's History of Oregon, also published in 1845. The earliest issue's preface was dated June 1845, this issue's preface is dated November 1845. "
"The author in this work reflects upon the country's strong spirit of Manifest Destiny: "The Railroad is the Great Negotiator, which alone can settle our title more conclusively than all the diplomatists in the world. Let it but take us to the dividing ridge and spread before our choice the fields of Oregon and the plains of California, and the acquisitions\ of the latter and the title of the former will be decided without dispute… Arouse then, America, and obey the mandate which Destiny has imposed upon you for the redemption of a world! Send forth upon its mighty errand the spirit of the enfranchised man … till it enlarges the boundaries of freedom to the last meridian, and spreads its generous influence from pole to pole!"
One of the earliest transcontinental agitations; framed while California was still a Mexican province, an Oregon terminus was planned." – Howes W-419 (b); Eberstadt 113:593; Sabin 103999. (Inventory #: 31202)
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