But these considerations do not wholly cover
the case. All that the historian can say is that the President chose
to take notice of the threats and acts of South Carolina and to ignore
the threats and acts of Georgia, without ever being troubled by the
inconsistency of his course. His political career affords many such
illustrations of the arbitrary and even erratic character of his mind.
Meanwhile the great Indian migration was setting in. Emulating the
example of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi extended their laws over
all of the Indian lands within their boundaries; and in all parts of
the South the red folk--some of them joyously, but most of them
sorrowfully--prepared to take up their long journey. In 1832 the
Creeks yielded to the United States all of their remaining lands east
of the Mississippi. By the spring of 1833 the Choctaws and Chickasaws
had done the same thing and were on their way westward. Only the
Cherokees remained, and in his message of December 3, 1833, Jackson
reiterated his earlier arguments for their removal.
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