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A 4 page review of one of President Andrew Jackson’s 1830 addresses to Congress concerning the Indian situation. The author of this paper contends that Jackson had a tendency to justify his actions and even to sugar coat them so that they appeared to be in the best interest not only of the white population which had elected him to office but also in the best interest of the people he was, in reality, dealing with so harshly. Such is the nature of political rhetoric! No additional sources are listed.
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Andrew Jackson is remembered with disdain by most individuals of Native American heritage. His name has not
been tainted without reason. It was Jackson, after all, who fabricated the Indian Removal in which the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Creek were forcibly removed from their homelands
in the Eastern United States. Jackson had a tendency, however, to justify his actions and even to sugar coat them so that they appeared to be in the best
interest not only of the white population which had elected him to office but also in the best interest of the people he was, in reality, dealing with so harshly.
Such is the nature of political rhetoric! Jacksons First Annual Message to Congress on December 8, 1830 is a direct reflection of this rhetoric.
Jacksons message to Congress has one example after another of flagrant lies. He states, for example, that:
"The tribes which occupied the countries now constituting the Eastern States were annihilated or have melted away to make room for the whites"
If this were the case then why was the forced removal necessitated? Indeed the tribes
had been the subject of annihilation attempts and many individuals had moved to escape those attempts but the Native presence in the Eastern states was indeed very strong at the
time of Jacksons statement. Jackson interlaces his address to Congress with terms like "benevolent" and "fair exchange" in an attempt to make a horrendous situation more palatable for those
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