The conquest of the continent . Rev. John W. Chapman Rev. Octavius Parke. Ice on the Yukou breaking up. Archdeacon Stuck reconnoitring On the Shores of the Pacific 167 tide of public opinion, that Seward in 1867bought Alaska from Russia. The inner his-tory of this transaction is not known. OnlySeward could have accomplished it. There arehistorians who think it to have been a round-about way of paying Russia for moral supportgiven, and material aid which she stood readyto furnish, during the Civil War. A bill forsuch services could not be presented to Con-gress and would not have been allowed b
The conquest of the continent . Rev. John W. Chapman Rev. Octavius Parke. Ice on the Yukou breaking up. Archdeacon Stuck reconnoitring On the Shores of the Pacific 167 tide of public opinion, that Seward in 1867bought Alaska from Russia. The inner his-tory of this transaction is not known. OnlySeward could have accomplished it. There arehistorians who think it to have been a round-about way of paying Russia for moral supportgiven, and material aid which she stood readyto furnish, during the Civil War. A bill forsuch services could not be presented to Con-gress and would not have been allowed by thatbody, but a distant and undesirable territory,which Russia felt to be a burden on her hands,could be taken for a consideration. Perhapssome motive of this sort, rather than the far-seeing wisdom with which they have been cre-dited, moved Seward and Sumner to urge thepurchase. It is certain that nine-tenths of thenation were against it. It was ridiculed asSewards folly—^a country fit only for apolar bear garden. But now, in a single year,the products of its mine
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