The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 105, July 2001 - April, 2002 Page: 133
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MISTRESS OF MANIFEST DESTINY
A BIOGRAPHY OF JANE MCMANUS STORM CAZNEAU, 1807-1878
By Linda S. Hudson
Jane McManus Storm Cazneau was a complex person
who died at sea the way she lived-at the center of a storm
of controversy. Whether as Aaron Burr's mistress, land
speculating in Texas, behind enemy lines during the
Mexican War, filibustering for Cuba or Nicaragua, promot-
ing Mexican revolution from a dugout in Eagle Pass, or
urging free blacks to emigrate to the Dominican Republic,
Cazneau seldom took the easy path.
She foresaw a nation with equal
rights for all in a world in which rep-
resentative government was the
norm rather than the exception.
As a journalist, an advisor to
national political figures, and publi-
cist, she helped shape United States
domestic and foreign policy from
the mid-1840s into the 1870s.
Cazneau's most unique contribu-
tion was as a staff member forJohn
L. O'Sullivan, editor of the United States Magazine and
Democratic Review, where she described the mission of the
United States as "Manifest Destiny," thereby coining one
of the most significant and influential phrases in
American political history.
Cazneau was dedicated to the expansion of republian
government; she had a special place in her heart for the
abandoned and neglected; and she had a deep and abidng
love for her country and faith in its people and its future.
Linda S. Hudson is a professor of history at East Texas
Baptist University in Marshall.
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