(Jackson's Message to Congress). Evidently, this supports the thesis as to why Jackson was seen as a king as opposed to a president. In reference to Jackson's message to Congress, he explained that Native Americans would drive the country into debt. Jackson imagined that white farmers were more essential to the economy because they are self-sufficient and simply deserved the land more than Native Americans. Both the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper and their Constitution served as the voice for all issues faced. Indeed, the Indians had their own nation. However, as a corrupt king, Jackson did not allow personal feelings to stand in the way of economic prosperity. According to his message, he states that he did not want the Native Americans to suffer, but rather wanted to protect them from starving whites. He is contradicting himself simply because he failed to recognize that his primary goal was money and not sympathy, which does not make him less than what he is, a self-obsessed and vindictive tyrant. Furthermore, even though the Cherokee Nation won the Worcester v. Georgia case. Jackson didn't care, he prevailed and continued to threaten the Native Americans. Secretary of War Lewis Cass also argued that Jackson, as he stated in simple terms, if the Indians did not move out of the white settlements,
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