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Humanity has often wept over the fate of the aborigines of this country, and Philanthropy has been long busily employed in devising means to avert it, but its progress has never for a moment been arrested, and one by one have many powerful tribes disappeared from the earth.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Jackson reflects on the tragic fate of Native American tribes in the United States.

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