“The neighboring tribes are becoming daily less warlike, and more helpless and dependent on us … [T]hey have, in a great measure, ceased to be an object of terror, and have become that of commiseration.”

— John C. Calhoun

Speech to the House of Representatives (5 December 1818)
1810s

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