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The Second Seminole War, the Ad Hoc Origins of American Imperialism, and the Silence of Slavery Washington University in St. Louis Washington University Open Scholarship All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) 1-1-2011 This Inglorious War: The econdS Seminole War, the Ad Hoc Origins of American Imperialism, and the Silence of Slavery Daniel Scallet Washington University in St. Louis Follow this and additional works at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/etd Recommended Citation Scallet, Daniel, "This Inglorious War: The eS cond Seminole War, the Ad Hoc Origins of American Imperialism, and the Silence of Slavery" (2011). All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). 638. https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/etd/638 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by Washington University Open Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) by an authorized administrator of Washington University Open Scholarship. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Washington University in St. Louis Department of History Dissertation Examination Committee: Iver Bernstein, Chair Elizabeth Borgwardt Randall Calvert Wayne Fields Peter Kastor David Konig "This Inglorious War": The Second Seminole War, the Ad Hoc Origins of American Imperialism, and the Silence of Slavery by Daniel Scallet A dissertation presented to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Washington University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy December 2011 Saint Louis, Missouri Copyright by Daniel Scallet 2011 Acknowledgements I would like to thank the Dwight D. Eisenhower Institute whose Clifford Roberts Fellowship Program provided funding for this project. I have also benefitted greatly from the Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellowship in American Culture Studies. Finally, I would like to thank the faculty at Washington University from whom I have learned so much as well as friends and family to whom I am eternally grateful. Table of Contents Introduction 1 Chapter 1 - “Perish Principle But Save the Country”: Andrew Jackson, Florida, and the Evolution of United States Indian Policy 39 Chapter 2 - “A Reckless Waste of Blood and Treasure”: Thomas Jesup, the Politics of Florida, and the State 96 Chapter 3 -“You Will Gird on Your Swords”: Volunteers, Nationalism, and Violence during the Second Seminole War 153 Chapter 4 - The “War-Whoop in the Doors of Your Capitol”: The March of Empire in the Halls of Congress 192 Chapter 5 - “The Very Obscurest of the Obscure”: The Second Seminole War and the Future of Antislavery in the United States 233 Chapter 6 - “We Do Not Live for Our Selves Only”: The Competing Strategies of Seminoles and BlackSeminoles amidst a Crusade of Conquest 266 Chapter 7 - The “Mock-War Spirit”: The Unsteady Path from Conquest to Imperialism 298 Conclusion 335 Bibliography 343 Introduction In 1844, the famed artist George Catlin published Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians, a grand synthesis of all that he had learned on the indigenous nations of the United States. He was largely sympathetic to the plight of the Indians, opposing removal as a violation of their rights and mourning the dozens of nations whose culture appeared to him lost, their morals corrupted. Near his conclusion, Catlin noted the recently completed struggle with the Seminole Indians in Florida, a conflict he believed to represent the last stand of Indians east of the Mississippi. He included only a brief summary of the war and begged the reader’s indulgence for his brevity, explaining that he was too close to the end of the book to detail it further. To Catlin, that was a lucky coincidence, but one that established a pattern he hoped later writers would follow, rationalizing that “the world will pardon me for saying no more of this inglorious war; … [but] as an American citizen I would pray, amongst thousands of others, that all books yet to be made might have as good an excuse for leaving it out.” He need not have bothered; the implications of the war had never been comprehended well enough to be forgotten.1 Nevertheless, it was a remarkable admission. Just six years before in January 1838, Catlin had traveled far south to Fort Moultrie, a United States fort on the coast of Charleston, to meet the captured Seminole war leader Osceola and several prominent Seminole chiefs. Though prisoners, the Seminoles had freedom to move within the fort, and they spent hours with Catlin in the fort’s officers’ quarters. There they recounted their own perspectives on the war and bitterly denounced the circumstances of their 1 George Catlin, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians: Written During Eight Years' Travel amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1844), 219. 1 capture, having been lured into the open by a white flag and then deceitfully placed in chains under the orders of General Thomas Jesup.2 The details of Catlin’s visit to the Seminoles were well known for another reason - the great Seminole leader Osceola lay dying, suffering from quinsy, a complication of tonsillitis, an illness he had almost certainly contracted before his capture in October 1837. Inside the fort, Catlin spoke with the dying warrior and offered to paint his portrait. Osceola welcomed the attentions of a famous painter like Catlin and one can easily see how he influenced his own portrayal. Proud, dignified, and resolute, the Osceola depicted in Catlin’s Osceola, the Black Drink, a Warrior of Great Distinction made a clear statement of Osceola’s essential humanity in an era of Indian dispossession and removal.3 Before the artist’s arrival, the warrior had sent for his white doctor and, knowing his death was imminent, declared through an interpreter “his country had been taken from him … by the strong & oppressive hand of the white people, & if he wished to live, it was only to show them that an Indian never forgot an Injury.” The Osceola of Catlin’s depiction memorialized the history of injustice the true Osceola swore never to forget; it was etched in the very melancholy of his features. It fit Catlin’s ideology as well. He believed Indians were to be celebrated, but only with a mournful tinge reflecting their 2 Catlin, Letters and Notes 220. 3 The title of Catlin’s painting, The Black Drink, was a translation of Osceola’s name and referred to a ceremonial liquid. 2 inexorable march toward extinction. Following his visit, Catlin returned to the northeast to exhibit his paintings of the Seminole leaders, inspiring numerous homages and copies. The morning that Catlin left South Carolina, Osceola himself provided the final brushstroke for Catlin’s image, passing away with his family at his side.4 Catlin may have hoped that the Second Seminole War might be forgotten, but it was not an isolated conflict on the outskirts of a nation. In Florida, several of the most powerful antebellum political, social, and economic movements collided with discomforting results. There, Jackson and his fellow Democrats spent over thirty million dollars and ordered nearly 1600 men to their death to make their vision of the nation manifest. By obliterating the last vestiges of non-United States collective sovereignty and threatening the future of nonwhite autonomy, Jackson intended to extend the geographic reach of his two most vital constituencies, white settlers and Southern slaveholders, and consolidate the hegemony of the United States in the southeast, one of the most unstable regions in the Americas over the preceding several centuries. Removing the Seminoles would further integrate Florida into Deep South slave society and legitimize white owners’ specious claims on dozens of the Seminoles’ relatively autonomous African- American allies. His actions had disastrous consequences for his nation, in both the short and long term. Yet, even as Jackson pursued the policies that would bring his nation to the brink of destruction, many of his most prominent opponents remained silent, 4 John K. Mahon, History of the Second Seminole War, 1835-1842 (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1985), 214-218; Patricia Wickman, Osceola’s Legacy (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006), 26- 28; Frederick Weedon’s Diary Pages, January 28-31, Fort Moultrie, S.C., Frederick Weedon Family Papers, SPR 251, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History; Daily Cleveland Herald, February 13, 1838; New York Spectator, February 8, 1838. On Catlin’s personal views on Indians and their destiny, see William H Truettner, The Natural Man Observed: A Study of Catlin’s Indian Gallery (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979); John Hausdoerffer, Catlin’s Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009). 3 unwilling to alienate or antagonize powerful slaveholding interests. Their silence ensured that the contours of Jacksonian expansion would become the sole precedent for United States continental and overseas expansion, a blueprint which demanded the colonization of native populations and the annihilation of their nonwhite political forms. He laid the groundwork for the imperial state.5 In arguing for a link between Jackson’s crusade of conquest and the imperialists of the nineteenth century, I define imperialism as a form of domination in which an alien power imposes its authority over a subject people in an alien land. This is distinguished from an imperial state, in which political institutions are explicitly tasked with ruling subject peoples, erecting a legal framework to ensure their subjugation, and appropriating their resources for the benefit of the dominant nation. Through their Indian policy, Jackson and his ideological allies set out to annihilate Indian sovereignty on the United States’ frontiers, but did not institutionalize the subjugation of the southeast Indians into law nor did they impose direct rule upon them following their removal. Rather, Jackson pursued conquest, the subjugation of a people and assumption of authority within a defined geographic space.
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