"We have not sought to extend our territorial possessions by conquest, or our republican institutions over a reluctant people. It was the deliberate homage of each people to the great principles of our federative union. If we consider the extend of territory involved in the annexation, it prospective influence on American, the means by which it has been accomplished, springing purely from the choice of the people themselves to share the blessings of our union, the history of the world may be changed to furnish a parallel ... We may rejoice that the tranquil and pervading influence of the American principle of self-government was sufficient to defeat the purposes of British and French interference ... From this example European Governments may learn how vain diplomatic arts and intrigues must ever prove upon this continent against that system of self-government which seems natural to our soil, and which will ever resist foreign interference."-- James Polk, from the State of the Union Address, Decemver 2, 1845. After this State of the Union Address, the statement that the annexation of Texas was born of a "Choice of the people themselves to share the blessing the of our union" was:
A. countered by devastating conflicts with Hispanics and American Indians
B. embraced and set the tone for further peaceful North American expansion.
C. reviled as a spin of political rhetoric to distract from the imperialistic spread of the republic.
D. upheld as a model for the idea and implementation of Manifest Destiny

I believe the answer is A, but I'm not confident. Please let me know what the valid answer is and why- 15 points & will give brainliest. :)

AP United States History