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Andrew Jackson: “If it be their real interest to maintain a separate existence, they will there be at liberty to do so without the…”

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If it be their real interest to maintain a separate existence, they will there be at liberty to do so without the inconveniences and vexations to which they would unavoidably have been subject in Alabama and Mississippi.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

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Jackson asserts that Indians can maintain their separate existence in their new territory without the issues faced in Alabama and Mississippi.

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