These obstacles must be overcome, for the Government can not relinquish the execution of this policy without sacrificing important interests and abandoning the tribes remaining east of the Mississippi to certain destruction.
Van Buren stresses the necessity of overcoming resistance to Indian removal to protect both the tribes and national interests.
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