Context: What does Elias Boudinot compare a future life in Georgia to?

Elias Boudinot was a formally educated Cherokee who became the editor of the Cherokee Phoenix,  

Elias Boudinot.

the first Native American newspaper in the United States. In the mid-1820s the Cherokee Nation was under enormous pressure from surrounding states, especially Georgia, to move to a territory west of the Mississippi River. Ultimately, the Cherokee Nation was divided, with the majority opposing removal, and a small but influential minority, including Boudinot, favoring removal. As an educator, an advocate of Cherokee acculturation, and editor of the Phoenix, Boudinot played a crucial role in Cherokee history during the decades preceding the Nation's forced removal, often referred to as the Trail of Tears

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it created free trade throughout the colonial territories.