Teddy Roosevelt: “The people of Tennessee were the wronged, and not the wrongdoers, and…”

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The people of Tennessee were the wronged, and not the wrongdoers, and it was upon them that the heaviest strokes of the Indians fell.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt asserts the victimhood of the Tennessee settlers in their conflicts with Native Americans, framing them as the true victims of violence.

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Teddy Roosevelt: “The people of Tennessee were the wronged, and not the wrongdoers, and it was upon them that the heaviest strokes of the…”