trong influence to express his theories on why he believed the Indians should emigrate to the West. He outlined the history of the Native American and their cultural weaknesses to reinforce the unwritten removal policy that the United States operated on in the time period in question. Cass pointed out the inevitable; the Indians only hope from this point was to emigrate to the western half of the nation. Cass used his studies of the Indians as support for his claim that the Indians could never live among the Americans due to their lack of logical reasoning. He showed how the Indians went from their stable tribes, to those that were broken and impoverished due to the mere co-habitation of Indians and whites in the North. Finally, Cass brought attention to the "slums in the wilderness" that presently existed, and that their only hope for any real future was to emigrate westward. Cass helped reinforce the ideals of Andrew Jackson. As the leader of the Democratic Party, Jackson sought to fulfill the visions of American frontiersman, "destined for continental expansion." Jackson compassionately addressed the state of the Native American affairs at his State of the Union Address, and agreed to give Indians ample land west of the Mississippi River if they would just leave the colonial areas. In the debates over the Removal bill, Senator John Forsyth reinforced Jackson’s pro-removal standpoint by pointing out present Indian conditions and the United States’ long history of its removal policy. Cass and Jackson were only two of the many who supported removal of the Indians. They addressed the issues that could not be turned around, such as the degeneration of tribes in the past, and the feelings of hatred that the general public had towards the Natives. They looked for a moral solution to the mayhem at hand, and took the proper measures to ensure the Removal Act of 1830. ...
