 | Alexander Saxton - 2003 - Страниц: 424
...asserts the natural equality of man."'4 'What good man', President Jackson asked the Congress in 1830, 'would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged...thousand savages, to our extensive Republic, studded with towns and prosperous farms ... and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization and religion?"'5... | |
 | David M. Ricci - 2004 - Страниц: 326
...Democratic Moment 105 land speculator, spoke for most Americans of his day when he asked rhetorically: "What good man would prefer a country covered with...with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion?"87 After the Civil War, Washington transported many western tribes to Oklahoma. Then the... | |
 | Jill Norgren - 2004 - Страниц: 224
...not wish to see this continent restored to the condition in which it was found by our forefathers. What good man would prefer a country covered with...improvements which art can devise, or industry execute . . . and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion!27 Proremoval congressmen... | |
 | John Lewis Gaddis - 2005 - Страниц: 164
...no less severe, and as Jackson himself asked pointedly after entering the White House in 1829, who would "prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages" to one "occupied by more than 12,ooo,ooo happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization,... | |
 | Carol H. Behrman - 2004 - Страниц: 94
...vision for the United States — a vision in which white society had replaced Indian society. He asked: "What good man would prefer a country covered with...with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion?" That same year, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, which called for the relocation... | |
 | Holliston Perni - 2005 - Страниц: 320
...counsels, to cast off their savage habits and become an interesting, civilized, and Christian community. What good man would prefer a country covered with...with all the blessings of liberty, civilization and religion? The present policy of the Government is but a continuation of the same progressive change... | |
 | William Marder - 2005 - Страниц: 256
...powerful race, which was exterminated or has disappeared to make room for the existing savage tribes.... What good man would prefer a country covered with...studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms... and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion? Doubtless it will be painful... | |
 | Stephen Warren - 2005 - Страниц: 234
...cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise" to a "country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages." 48 Indian agents struggled to meet the demands of well-placed public officials who called for an end... | |
 | Tiya Miles - 2005 - Страниц: 348
...not wish to see this continent restored to the condition in which it was found by our forefathers. What good man would prefer a country covered with...with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion?"1 In Jackson's view, the removal of eastern Indians to a region west of the Mississippi was... | |
 | Steven G. Reinhardt, Dennis Reinhartz - 2006 - Страниц: 252
...the time. Compare these words from Pres. Andrew Jackson's State of the Union Address, Dec. 6, 183o: "What good man would prefer a country covered with...devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12,ooo,ooo happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion?"... | |
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What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute,... 
