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Andrew Jackson's Fifth Annual Message
President
Andrew Jackson's Fifth Annual Message, December 3, 1833
My
original convictions upon this subject have been confirmed by
the course of events for several years, and experience is every
day adding to their strength. That those tribes can not exist
surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our
citizens is certain. They have neither the intelligence, the industry,
the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential
to any favorable change in their condition. Established in the
midst of another and a superior race, and without appreciating
the causes of their inferiority or seeking to control them, they
must necessarily yield to the force of circumstances and ere long
disappear.
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