...of our day are the remnants thereof." In his 1 830 message to Congress, President Jackson explained, "In the monuments and fortresses of an unknown people,...upon a comprehensive view of the general interests, is to be regretted." The Moundbuilder scenario provided Jackson a much-needed pretext for forced removal...

...our day are the remnants thereof." ln his 1830 message to Congress, President Jackson explained, "ln the monuments and fortresses of an unknown people,...upon a comprehensive view of the general interests, is to be regretted." The Moundbuilder scenario provided Jackson a much-needed pretext for forced removal...

...suffered removal had driven off or killed the Indians who had built the mounds long before white contact. "In the monuments and fortresses of an unknown people,...interests of the human race, is to be regretted." Andrew Jackson, "Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress . ....

...mind to these vicissitudes as it does to the extinction of one generation to make room for another. In the monuments and fortresses of an unknown people,...disappeared to make room for the existing savage tribes.... What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our...

...mind to these vicissitudes, as it does to the extinction of one generation to make room for another. In the monuments and fortresses of an unknown people,...the general interests of the human race, is to be regretted.52 A similar argument is at the center of "The Prairies," where Indian removal is characterized...

...mind to these vicissitudes, as it does to the extinction of one generation to make room for another. In the monuments and fortresses of an unknown people,...room for the existing savage tribes. Nor is there any thing in this, which, upon a comprehensive view of the general interests of the human race, is...

...exterminated, or has disappeared, to make room for the existing uvagR tribes. Nor is there nnv thing in this, which, upon a comprehensive view of the general...Philanthropy could not wish to see this continent restored t» the condition in which it was found by our forefather*. What good men would prefer a country covered...

...mind to these vicissitudes, as it does to the extinction of one generation to make room for another. In the monuments and fortresses of an unknown people...the west, we behold the memorials of a once powerful tace, which was exterminated, or has disappeared, to make room for the existing savage tribes, &c....