Harriet Martineau Research Paper

Harriet Martineau was a political reformer from Great Britain who was thirty-two years old when she started a tour of United States. Harriet Martineau states, “The pride and delight of Americans is in their quality of land.” (73 Martineau). This means everything starts with the land you own and the more fertile it is the more valuable it is going to be. The acquiring of this land was a heavy force in manifest destiny because it expanded the territory of the United States. Harriet Martineau was told in triumph of the hasty sales of land; of the grand additions which had been made by the addition of Louisiana and Florida, and the possibility of annexing Texas. Harriet Martineau believe land was the wealth of a nation and the possession of land …show more content…
Jane Swisshelm was only twenty-one years old when the United States declared war on Mexico. She was very religious abolitionist and supporter of women’s rights, she also wrote news articles anonymously in her hometown in Pittsburg. Jane Swisshelm was against the Mexican War which was a factor in the annexation of Texas a Manifest Destiny movement because she believed it would result in a greater demand of slaves. Jane Swisshelm states, “the great Whig argument against the election of Polk was, that it would bring on a war with Mexico for the extension of slavery, and when the war came, Whigs and Liberty Party men vied with each other in their cry of “Our Country, right or wrong!” and rushed into the army over every barrier set up by their late arguments.” (105 Swisshelm). Jane Swisshelm believed “the nation was seized by a military madness, and in the furore, the cause of the slave went to the wall…It was a dark day for the slave, and it was difficult to see hope for a brighter.” (105 Swisshelm). Jane Swisshelm was against this form of Manifest Destiny because of the military violence and the abolishment movement would be