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To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan

Jackson did good on the banking issue. But I would never call myself a ‘Jacksonian’ and any politician who does ignores the genocide Jackson perpetrated on a sovereign nation. The supreme court ruled against Jackson and the state of Georgia, but that didn’t stop him.

Some historians contend Congressman David Crockett’s political career ended because of his support for the Cherokee against President Jackson’s removal plans. Crockett explains his position in 1834:
“.......His famous, or rather I should say infamous, Indian bill was brought forward, and I opposed it from the purest motives in the world. Several of my colleagues got around me, and told me how well they loved me, and that I was ruining myself. They said this was a favourite measure of the president, and I ought to go for it. I told them I believed it was a wicked, unjust measure, and that I should go against it, let the cost to myself be what it might; that I was willing to go with General Jackson in everything that I believed was honest and right; but further than this I wouldn’t go for him, or any other man in the whole creation.
I voted against this Indian bill, and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good honest vote, and that I believe will not make me ashamed in the day of judgment.”

http://jesusweptanamericanstory.blogspot.com/


42 posted on 08/05/2009 1:16:44 PM PDT by AuntB (Tired of Left/right coast globalist party power brokers? How 'bout THE HEARTLAND AMERICA PARTY??)
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To: AuntB

Jackson represented the American Frontier. The Rednecks loved him.


43 posted on 08/05/2009 1:24:38 PM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (Sarah Palin is our Iron Lady from the North)
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