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American annexationism (and Anglicization) of the entirety of both American continents (and beyond, honestly) was prevalent throughout the 1800s.

>“This was a Texas inkling of the Houston idea formally stated on February 16, 1858, when [Sam Houston] introduced into the Senate a resolution that the Committee on Foreign Relations investigate **the establishment of a protectorate over Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and San Salvador**, “in such form and to such extent as shall be necessary to secure to the people of said States the blessings of good and stable republican government.” There was startled reaction at the national level. Henry Wilson of Massachusetts described the resolution as “of a most extraordinary character… intended to encourage that spirit of filibustering which has disgraced this country.” In April, Houston moved to amend his resolution to confine the proposed protectorate to Mexico, then in the throes of its fourteenth revolution, because the Central American states were in better condition than **“our poor, distracted adjoining neighbor,” with whom “good neighborhood” was “next to an impossibility.”** In his speech on the substitute proposal Houston outlined the expenditure which would be involved, the expense to be “defrayed by the protected.” Five thousand reliable troops would insure the establishment and preservation of internal order, and a good police force would subdue bandits. He related Mexican failure to meet payments due British bondholders and intimated that England would be pleased to have Mexican finances stabilized… Subsequent efforts to get a vote on his resolution brought rebuke and repartee from other senators. Wilson called the move a “gross insult to Mexico.” Hale amused the Senate when he proposed an amendment of his own—**“to extend the same inquiries to the Canadas and the other British possessions in our continent.”** Only Toombs of Georgia concurred, saying that he was prepared to adopt Houston’s resolution as national policy. Mason of Virginia, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, thought the resolution was an indignity to the Latin American states.” **~ Lierna Friend**; *Sam Houston: The Great Designer*, pp. 298-9; 1954

>“In 1860 neither the gathering clouds of civil conflict nor the approach of the Republican nominating convention was sufficient wholly to divert Seward's gaze from the constantly enlarging vision which his crystal revealed. By this time he saw a United States covering at least all the continent of North America, with its capital in the valley of Mexico.” **~ Dan E. Clark**; “Manifest Destiny and the Pacific;” *Pacific Historical Review*, vol. 1, no. 10, p. 1; March 1932

>“Early American statesmen believed in a continental destiny. Jefferson imagined a time when “our rapid multiplication will . . . cover the whole northern if not southern continent, with people speaking the same language, governed by similar forms, and by similar laws." John Quincy Adams thought that "North America appears to be destined by Divine Providence to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs. For the common happiness of them all, for their peace and prosperity, I believe it is indispensable that they should be associated in one federal Union.” **~ Walter A. McDougall**; *Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776*, p. 78; 1997

>“W. Grayson Mann, who had served recently as secretary to the U.S. Minister in Brazil, urged the infamous soldier-of-fortune, William Walker, in mid-1857 to change his focus from seizing the minnow that was Nicaragua and turn his attention to the whale that was Brazil, claiming that he would then join Walker to help prevent the fairest portion of God’s Creation rotting away in the hands of a decrepit race incapable of developing its resources.’ Mark Twain was among those in the U.S. who ‘was fired with a longing to ascend the Amazon’ and ‘tried to contrive ways to get to Para’ there. He left Keokuk, floating down the Mississippi heading for this town, though—in a journey that may have been more fanciful than real—he never got any further than New Orleans. Not surprisingly, the articulate African American, J. H. Banks, agreed with the not uncommon opinion on the eve of the Civil War that the aim of the slave power is to unite with Brazil and extend the disunion of slavery to the Pacific.” **~ Apichai W. Shipper**; *The Deepest South*; 2007

>“A notable exponent of the argument that Mexicans were worthless was Robert J. Walker, the Pennsylvania-born senator from Mississippi. Walker made the Texas cause his own and for the next thirty years was to be one of the most rampant of expansionists, urging the extension of American power over all North and South America, Iceland, and Greenland, endlessly promoting trade ties to the Pacific, and arguing that ultimately the Anglo-Saxon race would reunite under the American federal system to bring a reign of peace throughout the world… The movement promoting expansion in and rule over Central and South America and the whole Caribbean region was seen by some ardent Southerners as a means of giving greater strength to the South within the union or even as the basis for a distinct southern nation. Many of those who advocated such a movement, though willing to accept immediate colonialism, often incorporated the more general idea that the existing mixed races would eventually fade away before the Anglo-Saxons and their black slaves. The whole of Latin America, like Mexico, was viewed as an area that had been ruined by racial mongrelization and by subsequent misrule… Ultimately, as the Anglo-Saxons multiplied, many inferior races would disappear. As early as 1843 a writer in the Merchants' Magazine suggested that the name Hawaii should be retained — "the indigenous population, after they may have disappeared before, or become absorbed in, the tide of western civilization, should still yield a trace of their former existence, though it be but a name.” The superior American race, said a writer in De Bow's Review in 1852, was to achieve world dominance through replacing other peoples. Already, by rapid colonization, the United States had supplanted the "inferior" race on the Pacific coast. The same process would take place in Mexico, South America, Asia, and the Pacific as the American race advanced: "wherever they go, this inferior native population, as a result of amalgamation, and that great law of contact between a higher and a lower race, by which the latter gives way to the former, must be gradually supplanted, and its place occupied by this highest of races." Eventually, without wars of conquest, but through the laws of contact between superior and inferior races, the United States in all probability "will occupy the entire extent of America, the rich and fertile plains of Asia, together with the intermediate isles of the sea, in fulfilment of the great purpose of heaven, of the ultimate enlightenment of the whole earth, and the gradual elevation of man to the dignity and glory of the promised millenial day.” This, of course, was not the regeneration of the peoples of the world, but the creation of a better world by the replacement of a variety of other races by a superior race.” **~ Reginald Horsman**; *Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo–Saxonism*, pp. 215, 280, 291; 1981