| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America. By Robert E. May. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xx, 426 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2703-7.)

John Berrien Lindsley knew the enigmatic William Walker, the greatest filibuster of them all, as well as anyone. Both Tennesseans were graduated as precocious teenagers from the University of Nashville; both received medical degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1843. Lindsley reminisced with his old chum over dinner on several occasions two years before a Honduran firing squad, in 1860, put a well-publicized end to Walker's manifest destiny. Although the high-browed Lindsley, a Presbyterian clergyman, educator, and Unionist, never accompanied Walker on any of his paramilitary adventures, he shared with him several operative assumptions, which he confided to a journal on the eve of the Civil War. The great empires of the world, he reflected, were also great civilizers. The Anglo-Saxon race, more so even than the Turks and Arabs, had demonstrated its ability to govern inferior peoples. In 1860, the South stood poised to extend its reach southward, to create a modern republican empire "distinguished from all the governments in the world by a peculiar institution, which would serve as a strong band of nationality, as well as a badge of separation from the rest of mankind."

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