What Jackson did was just a naked land grab. He did it out of hate. He did most things out of hate.
“What Jackson did was just a naked land grab. He did it out of hate. He did most things out of hate.”
Jackson’s friend John Walker was half Cherokee. Strange for a hater of Cherokee. John Walker’s son John was part of the negotiation process. The Cherokee National Council threatened to kill those in favor of removal. Sure enough they murdered John later as he was riding his horse. The witness identified two Cherokee. The Cherokee killers did not even deny it at trial but instead said that U.S. did not have the right to try them. You could call that state sanctioned terrorism. They got off lucky. BTW, The Supreme Court in that decision chronicled a long legislative history of that land and ruled that the land had been taken by right of conquest, and that some of the current laws “protecting” the Cherokee were unconstitutional.
BTW it was Thomas Jefferson who had instituted the plans to remove the Indians. The many that left on their own in years previous when told to did so with little problems.