Having coined the phrase "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny" id="mwZQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Manifest destiny">manifest destiny</a>" the previous July, journalist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._O'Sullivan" id="mwZg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John L. O'Sullivan">John L. O'Sullivan</a> argued in his newspaper <i id="mwZw">New York Morning News</i> that the United States had the right to claim the entire <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Country" id="mwaA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Oregon Country">Oregon Country</a>.<sup about="#mwt73" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"}}' id="cite_ref-11" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_27#cite_note-11" id="mwaQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 11;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwag">[11]</span></a></sup>
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