DOC The Doctrine of God (A Theology of Lordship) by John M. Frame in History

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Jane McManus Storm Cazneau (1807–1878) 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; promoting 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 representative government was the norm rather than the exception.As a journalist; an advisor to national political figures; and publicist; she helped shape United States domestic and foreign policy from the mid–1840s into the 1870s. Cazneau’s most unique contribution was as a staff writer for John 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.A single parent and working mother; Cazneau was not a women’s rights woman who agitated for suffrage. She ridiculed the Seneca Falls housewives’ complaints because real oppression existed for women in the factories; in the needle trades; on Indian reservations; and in the Caribbean. Cazneau advised working women to educate themselves and take better-paying men’s clerical jobs.Although it appeared that her schemes and speculations failed; many of the policies she advocated eventually succeeded. She promoted the need for a steam navy and merchant marine fifty years before Alfred T. Mahan. She wrote about the problems of the working class sixty years before it became a Progressive crusade; advocated agrarian reform fifty years before Populists took up the cause; and assisted republican revolutionaries a hundred years before the United States awoke to the needs of the ordinary people in the sister republics of the Western Hemisphere.Cazneau's letters; books; journal; and newspaper articles leave little more than a hint of her intelligence and conversational wit; a mere suggestion of her sexuality and explosive temper; a glimpse of her courage and spirituality; and a trace of her sense of humor reflected in the sparkle of violet eyes beneath raven hair and a dark complexion that was her distinguishing trait. She was dedicated to the expansion of republican government; she had a special place in her heart for the abandoned and neglected; whether persons or animals; and she had a deep and abiding love for her country and faith in its people and in its future.