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John G. Burnett Analysis
The battle of right versus wrong fails to always be obvious. How much simpler would life be if there was only good and only bad with nothing between? The case of John G. Burnett is somewhere between good and bad. He was ordered to condemn thousands of Natives to a death march, killing 4000 along the way. It was not his hand directly that shed their blood, but he did aid the process. This does not make him guilty. The orders he carried out would have been done by another if not he. By carrying out these orders, Burnett provided the Cherokees with someone who understood them and treated them humanly compared to other white men. There was nothing he could do to give them their land back, but he was able to make the trip slightly better so much
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