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Excerpt from Robert J Walker, Imperialist

But the greatest subject of exploitationwas the Indian, who still owned vast areas of lands in the West. From Illinois to Lou isiana the hardy pioneers, whose characters we are so prone to idealize to-day, were ruthlessly despoiling, without pretense of legal right, the helpless natives. The very basis of Jackson's power was his free license to the westerners to work their wills upon these wards of the nation. Nowhere was this spirit more rampant than in Mississippi, where some fifteen thousand square miles of land was still in the hands of the Indians and hotly coveted by cotton planters and small farmers alike. In February, 1831, the treaty of Dancing Rabbit gave the Missis sippians conditional possession of all this land. Public land sales were announced in 1833 only a short forty days before the auctioneer was to begin his work. The Indians, who were still trying to save them selves by showing the illegality of the treaty, were in the greatest distress; and the army of squatters already on the public domain were hardly less disturbed by this sudden turn of things. Only the land agents and their friends who had prepared this stroke were happy.

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Excerpt from Robert J Walker, Imperialist

Polk, author of the best tariff law known to our statute books, and the greatest imperialist who ever violated the most solemn of all American declarations. Such a post-mortem might suggest a very tame and prosaic biography. Not so in the case of Walker, whose life was as crowded with event and vicissitude as ever the tale of a novelist. Yet neither story-teller nor sober historian ever stumbled upon the subject, and the records themselves have all but perished.

Born of good parentage in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, on July 23, 1801, he grew up in the midst of the democratic up-country which saw in Thomas Jefferson the ideal of American life. Young Walker was sent at an early age to the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in July, 1819, at the head of his class. He next appears as a surveyor for a land company in the northwest corner of the state, but in this raw region his principal interest was the study of law, for in three years he was ready to begin the practice of that profession; and he located in Pittsburgh in 1822.

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