...never for a moment been arrested, and one by one have many powerful tribes disappeared from the earth. What good man would prefer a country covered with...the improvements which art can devise or industry executes, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty,...

...nineteenth-century advocates of Indian Removal insisted that people guided by "true philanthropy" could not possibly "prefer a country covered with forests and ranged...studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms," in the 1830 words of President Andrew Jackson, Native Americans perceived that such philanthropy required...

..."What good man," he asked in his Inaugural Address, "would prefer a country with forests ranged over by a few thousand savages to our extensive republic,...prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements art can devise or industry execute?" A cultural elite in Paris, London and New York might wish to preserve...

...Mississippi River. Contrasting the "country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages" with "our extensive Republic studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all of the improvements which art [technology] can devise or industry execute," Jackson intimated that...

...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...devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 1 2,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion?"51...

...maleficent, their moral purpose to destroy it.7 President Andrew Jackson asked in his 1830 inaugural address: "What good man would prefer a country covered with...the improvements which art can devise or industry can execute?"8 In Florida, the conventional wisdom was that the peninsula was far too wet, a malady...

...Jackson's thinking on Indian destiny. He asked rhetorically in 1830 in the language of Manifest Destiny: "What good man would prefer a country covered with...cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 1 2,000,000 happy...

...and in public messages phrased the fundamental question in this way: "What good man [italics added] would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged...Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms . . . occupied by more than 12,000,000 people and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization,...

...generation to make room for another. What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and reigned by a few thousand savages to our extensive republic studded with cities, towns, and prosperous homes? It is a propaganda radio show that legitimates the imperial politics of Canada and the USA and...

...forefathers. What good man would prefer a country covered wilh forests and ranged by a few thousand savage^ to our extensive republic, studded with cities, towns,...devise, or industry execute; occupied by more than twelve millions of happy people, and filled wilh all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion!...