User:CoolerBrian/Manifest destiny

The filibusterism of the era even opened itself up to some mockery among the headlines. In 1854, a San Francisco Newspaper published a satirical poem called "Filibustering Ethics". This poem features two characters, Captain Robb and Farmer Cobb. Captain Robb makes claim to Farmer Cobb's land arguing that Robb deserves the land because he is Anglo-Saxon, has weapons to "Blow out" Cobb's brains, and nobody has heard of Cobb so what right does Cobb have to claim the land. Cobb argues that Robb doesn't need his land because Robb already has more land than he knows what to do with. However, due to threats of violence, Cobb surrenders his land and leaves grumbling that "might should be the rule of right among enlightened nations."

These events related to the US-Mexican War and had an effect on the American people living in the Southern Plains at the time. A case study by David Beyreis depicts these effects through the operations of a fur trading and Indian trading business named Bent, St. Vrain and Company during the period. The telling of this company shows that the idea of Manifest Destiny wasn't unanimously loved by all Americans and didn't always benefit Americans. The case study goes on to show that this company could have ceased to exist in the name of territorial expansion.