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Rhetorical Analysis Of A Letter To The Spanish Americans
You're very right about the Americans being just as deceptive as the Spanish. I believe that they are just as bad as the Spanish, just in a nicer manner. Instead of chasing them off of their land like the Spanish, they convinced them to leave. I don't think it was right for them to make the Indians leave their mother country because that should have been their land; not the Americans land. The Indians left their land in such horrible condition; the old people didn't have clothes, some people were sick, and the mothers had to carry their kids on their backs.

Tocqueville said, that the Choctaws agreed to leave their country after a long negotiation. I believe that the Choctaw people agreed to leave their country without fighting, because they wanted to be free from the Americans. Even though the Indian people were in bad condition, they knew that there would only be more trouble if they tried to fight the Americans.
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Throughout the letter he talks about how the natives have suffered leaving their home country. I also believe that his tone was sarcastic in the second paragraph of the letter. When he said "You see what fine thing logic is." He was being sarcastic here because he doesn't agree with the Americans reason for deserving the land more than the

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