of the American Indians. In “Samuel’s Memory,” Rutledge used a specific type of connotation to support his point. He uses words with negative connotations to describe his emotions, but surrounding those words were blank, emotionless words. These then emphasized the negative words so that they caught the reader’s attention.
The final language comparison is between both article’s use of description. There is a great deal of description in “On Indian Removal.” Part of this ties into Jackson’s goal of looking intelligent in front of his colleagues. However, the use of description is important for his topic- the congress needs to be able to completely understand what the Indian Removal Act is about. In “Samuel’s Memory,” Rutledge mainly uses descriptions
