Did Lincoln believe in "Manifest Destiny?"

[JMadonna]

Seward was the strong expansionist. He wanted to annex Canada but Lincoln did not want another war in the North. After Lincoln's death, Seward bought Alaska and hoped to obtain at least British Columbia as reparation for the claims that the U.S. had against Britain for violating neutrality and building the Alabama warship for the South.

Seward felt by locking up the west coast Canada would eventually fall into the U.S. pocket.