Jackson’s Message on Indian Removal, 1830

It gives me pleasure to announce to Congress that the benevolent policy of the Government, steadily pursued for nearly thirty years in relation to the removal...of the Indians beyond the white settlements, is approaching to a happy consummation.

Jackson’s Message on Indian Removal 1830

President Andrew Jackson believed that removal was in tribes’ best interest. But, many Native Americans referred to President Jackson, whom they formerly admired, as “the Devil.” Jackson’s message to Congress justified the removal policy already established by the Indian Removal Act of May 28, 1830.

National Archives, Records of the U.S. Senate