US Presidency
1837

The interests of the United States would also be greatly promoted by freeing the relations between the General and State Governments from what has proved a most embarrassing incumbrance by a satisfactory adjustment of conflicting titles to lands caused by the occupation of the Indians, and by causing the resources of the whole country to be developed by the power of the State and General Governments and improved by the enterprise of a white population. Intimately connected with this subject is the obligation of the Government to fulfill its treaty stipulations and to protect the Indians thus assembled at their new residences from all interruptions and disturbances from any other tribes or nations of Indians or from any other person or persons whatsoever, and the equally solemn obligation to guard from Indian hostility its own border settlements, stretching along a line of more than 1,000 miles.