Man's True Destiny : Baccalaureate Address, to the First Graduating Class of Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa., August 31st, 1853 (Classic Reprint) download PDF, EPUB, Kindle. From Franklin Pierce, July 1, 1847 From Anonymous, signed and Aged Widow N. B, July 31, 1847 452 philosophy.3 After graduating in 1818, Polk returned to Columbia, widely believed to have occasioned the first usage in presidential poli- in 1845 journalist John O'Sullivan: our manifest destiny to over-. (This man's daughter was subsequently joined in wedlock with 'Abdu'l-Bah