What is the tone of this passage from andrew jackson's message to
congress?
"what good man would prefer a country covered with
forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our
extensive republic, studded with cities, towns, and
prosperous farms embellished with all the improvements
which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by
more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the
blessings of liberty, civilization and religion? "
- andrew jackson, annual message to congress on
december 6, 1830"

a. hostile and argumentative
b. cold and uncaring
c. proud and confident
d. pleading and insistent