Who are some people that disagreed with the Indian Removal act?
Many representatives and senators recalled that the debates in both houses had been extremely bitter, highly partisan, emotionally super charged, and exhausting. Senator Theodore Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, a friend of Jeremiah Evarts, a strong supporter of Christian benevolence, and a bitter anti-Jacksonian, led the attack in the upper house with a six-hour speech that extended over three days. Peleg Sprague (Maine) and Ascher Robbins (Rhode Island) joined with opposition speeches. John Forsyth (Georgia) and Robert Adams (Mississippi), along with Chairman White, defended removal. Despairing of victory, opponents also tried unsuccessfully to amend White’s bill with language that would force Jackson to protect the Cherokees from Georgia law until they were removed. The final vote, clearly along party lines, was 28 to 19. But the party lines were not quite so strong in the House and some Democrats, particularly from Pennsylvania and the Ohio valley, along with Tennessean Davy Crockett,
