Daily Quiz for December 20, 2011

John L. O’Sullivan, editor of the New York Morning News and a magazine titled The Democratic Review, first dropped the phrase into the July – August 1845 issue of the Review. At the time, he was arguing in favor of annexing Texas, but that question had pretty much become moot. He must have liked the turn of phrase, because he used it again in the News on Dec. 27 regarding America’s claim to Oregon, "The right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent."