Phew!! What a mishmash! The "New Canaanites" refers to the Mormons who only became known after Jefferson died. As did Andrew Jackson, whose "Indian Removal Act" was responsible for most of the slaughter of Native Americans --apart from some earlier ones by the Puritans in the 1600s, a century or more before the Founders lived. You could …
Phew!! What a mishmash! The "New Canaanites" refers to the Mormons who only became known after Jefferson died. As did Andrew Jackson, whose "Indian Removal Act" was responsible for most of the slaughter of Native Americans --apart from some earlier ones by the Puritans in the 1600s, a century or more before the Founders lived. You could also look into the Spanish Conquistadors of the 1500s. They indeed slaughtered millions. Read Las Casas' first-hand account. (But they were Catholics, not Calvinists).
Jefferson corresponded with the Cherokees (I'm part Cherokee, btw) and wrote admiringly of the Indians in his "Notes on Virginia" - one of only two books he wrote. And he was brought up Anglican, not Calvinist, before he became a deist. John Adams also wrote fondly of Indian neighbors who used to visit his family in his letters to Jefferson. Andrew Jackson was elected in 1828, defeating his son, John Quincy Adams, the incumbent president - two years after John Adams died.
"Manifest Destiny" was a term coined by a journalist in 1845, when all the founders were long dead. It was originally a complaint about European interference that turned into a catch-phrase Americans wanted to believe: that God wanted them to have all of north America. (https://www.britannica.com/event/Manifest-Destiny) So yes, I've heard of it.
I've also read a great many of the letters and writings of Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Madison, etc., which you very clearly haven't, and written published articles about them.
So you're the one who needs to "wakey" and read their own words, instead of your screwball delusional sources, whatever they are. The internet abounds with them, so I won't even guess.
Phew!! What a mishmash! The "New Canaanites" refers to the Mormons who only became known after Jefferson died. As did Andrew Jackson, whose "Indian Removal Act" was responsible for most of the slaughter of Native Americans --apart from some earlier ones by the Puritans in the 1600s, a century or more before the Founders lived. You could also look into the Spanish Conquistadors of the 1500s. They indeed slaughtered millions. Read Las Casas' first-hand account. (But they were Catholics, not Calvinists).
Jefferson corresponded with the Cherokees (I'm part Cherokee, btw) and wrote admiringly of the Indians in his "Notes on Virginia" - one of only two books he wrote. And he was brought up Anglican, not Calvinist, before he became a deist. John Adams also wrote fondly of Indian neighbors who used to visit his family in his letters to Jefferson. Andrew Jackson was elected in 1828, defeating his son, John Quincy Adams, the incumbent president - two years after John Adams died.
"Manifest Destiny" was a term coined by a journalist in 1845, when all the founders were long dead. It was originally a complaint about European interference that turned into a catch-phrase Americans wanted to believe: that God wanted them to have all of north America. (https://www.britannica.com/event/Manifest-Destiny) So yes, I've heard of it.
I've also read a great many of the letters and writings of Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Madison, etc., which you very clearly haven't, and written published articles about them.
So you're the one who needs to "wakey" and read their own words, instead of your screwball delusional sources, whatever they are. The internet abounds with them, so I won't even guess.