Posted on 03/07/2015 6:55:03 AM PST by rktman
>>The law authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands, including that of the Five Civilized Tribes.
At that time in human history or at any time prior to that, the alternative to this relocation would have been what?
For instance:
"...there have always been those who wish to enlarge the powers of the General Government. There is but one safe rule...confine (it) within the sphere of its appropriate duties. It has no power to raise a revenue or impose taxes except for the purposes enumerated in the Constitution....Every attempt to exercise power beyond these limits should be promptly and firmly opposed." - Andrew Jackson's Valedictory
"We have received it [the Constitution] as the work of the assembled wisdom of the nation. We have trusted to it as to the sheet anchor of our safety in the stormy times of conflict with a foreign or domestic foe. We have looked to it with sacred awe as the palladium of our liberties, and with all the solemnities of religion have pledged to each other our lives and fortunes here and our hopes of happiness hereafter in its defense and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance to the Constitution . . .? No. We were not mistaken. The letter of this great instrument is free from this radical fault. . . . No, we did not err! . . . The sages . . . have given us a practical and, as they hoped, a permanent* Constitutional compact. . . . The Constitution is still the object of our reverence, the bond of our Union, our defense in danger, the source of our prosperity in peace: it shall descend, as we have received it, uncorrupted by sophistical construction, to our posterity. . . ." - President Andrew Jackson's Proclamation of December 10, 1832
*Underlining added for emphasis
" However much we may differ in the choice of the measures which should guide the administration of the government, there can be but little doubt in the minds of those who are really friendly to the republican features of our system that one of its most important securities consists in the separation of the legislative and executive powers at the same time that each is acknowledged to be supreme, in the will of the people constitutionally expressed." - Andrew Jackson, 7th Annuel Message to Congress, December 7, 1835
"The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble." - Andrew Jackson, Message to Congress, January 16, 1833
>>Lot of divorced men here would probably beg to differ with you on that.
Good point. A lot of MARRIED men would agree with you too.
Put two profiles on the $20 bill, Victoria Woodhull and Frederick Douglas - both would break US paper currency barriers, both are historically noteworthy, and both ran together as presidential and vice presidential candidates, as the first woman and first black, respectively, to do so (they were on the “Equal Rights Party” ticket).
LOL!
The obvious choice is Mary Jo Kopechne. She gave her life to save the nation from ever having Teddy Kennedy as President.
Isn’t Hillary Clinton on the $3 bill?
“Negotiation” with the various tribes was at the point of a gun, and was at best only slightly less bloody than outright slaughter. Some Seminoles were also removed to Oklahoma, but it was estimated that for every two Seminoles that were actually removed from Florida and south Georgia, one army soldier died.
Not really a very good ratio, as there would have been considerable more Seminoles killed for each one captured and successfully removed.
>>Negotiation with the various tribes was at the point of a gun, and was at best only slightly less bloody than outright slaughter.
But it was better. They refused to assimilate. In those days, we knew how to deal with people who refused to assimilate into the better and more powerful culture. We could learn a thing or two from the 1830 Congress right now if we are to survive as a nation.
Satan Spoke Through Margaret Sanger Founder of Planned Parenthood
Margaret Sanger, the alcoholic and Demerol addict, who spawned the International Planned Parenthood Federation, was a proponent of forced eugenics, segregation, abortion, birth control and sexual immorality. Here are some of her quotes.
“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood.
“Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.”
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood
“We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population
” Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood
“Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.” Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood
“Eugenics is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems. Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood
“Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.” Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood
“The unbalance between the birth rate of the ‘unfit’ and the ‘fit,’ [is] the greatest present menace to civilization the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.” Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood
“The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.” Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood continues~~
“Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying a dead weight of human waste an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.” Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood
“The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.” Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood
“The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped.” Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood
“The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order...” Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood
“[Our objective is] unlimited sexual gratification without the burden of unwanted children...” Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood
“[Mandatory] sterilization for [the insane and feeble-minded] is the answer.” Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood
“Give dysgenic groups [people with ‘bad genes’] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.” Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood “.
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood, proposed the Population Congress with the aim, “...to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.”
“As we celebrate the 100th birthday of Margaret Sanger, our outrageous and our courageous leader, we will probably find a number of areas in which we may find more about Margaret Sanger than we thought we wanted to know...” Faye Wattleton, Past-president of Planned Parenthood
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3117950/posts
2/27/2014
Andrew Jackson was a great President who was idolized by an even greater President - James K. Polk. Without their drive and determination, the U.S. would be a much smaller country and weaker country. We should never apologize for anything. I say this even though I have some Cherokee ancestry.
Sojourner truth was as instrumental as Tubman. Just not as well known.
Change the picture every few years. The format can remain the same.
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