A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . , our government intimated to Emperor Napoleon that it would bepolitic forhim to with-draw fromMexico, al-though wewere quitewilling to al-low Maximil-ian to remainemperor if itwas the wishof the Mexi-cans. Napol-eon acted onthe warning,but the mis-guided victimchose to stay,and was cap-tured by the Mexicans in 1807 and shot. That was the end of the attempt toestablish an empire in Mexico, which has lon
A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . , our government intimated to Emperor Napoleon that it would bepolitic forhim to with-draw fromMexico, al-though wewere quitewilling to al-low Maximil-ian to remainemperor if itwas the wishof the Mexi-cans. Napol-eon acted onthe warning,but the mis-guided victimchose to stay,and was cap-tured by the Mexicans in 1807 and shot. That was the end of the attempt toestablish an empire in Mexico, which has long been a prosperous and well-governed repul)lic. ADMISSION OF NEBRASKA. Nebraska was admitted to the Cnion in 1867. It was a part of the Louis-iana purchase and was made a Territory in 1854, by the Kansas-Nebraska located much further north than Kansas, it escaped the strife and civilwar which desolated that Territory. It has proven to be a rich agriculturalregion, though it suffers at times from grasshoppers, drought, and storms. The attempts to lay an Atlantic telegraph cable resulted in failures until1866, when a cable was laid from Ireland to Newfoundland. Since then other. LOG-CABIN CHURCH AT JUNEAU, ALASKA. 412 AD^HNISTRATIONS OF JOHNSON AND GRANT. cables have been successfully stretched beneath the ocean until it may be saidthe world is girdled by them. PURCHASE OF ALASKA. In 1867 our country purchased from Russia the large tract in the northwestknown as Russian America. The sum paid was $7,200,000, a price whichmany deemed so exorbitant that it was considered a mere pretext of SecretarySeward, who strongly urged the measure, in order to give Russia a bonus forher valuable friendshijj during the Civil War. Inclusive of the islands, the areaof Alaska is 577,390 square miles. The country was looked upon as a cold, dis-mal land of fogs and storms, without any appreciable value, but its seal fisheriesand timber have been so productive of late years that it has repa
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