The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-04-23 00:00:00

THZ AMERICAN ICEBERG BARGAIN.

The announcement in New York that the who]
of Roman Anagram had been sold to the United
Sates Government for raven millions of dollars was
bailed with euthosiesam, and for • few hosts the
public =kid was thrown ofl Ito Wanes by this great
additica to the Republic. It essnied an approach to
the realization of that favourite dram of "universal
empire" which taco often beard of a Coevals and
elsewhere. But in two days people bad Oise to
ask themselves "What Is the sae of thine square
mile, of ice and inacosesible coast, r The "Ile 11-
vernal anneration" party is, alto, all, not • very
leer one, and to pay seven millions for the privilege
of potting the Stars and Stripes over all the ioebergs,
and furnishing Kr. Brunner with • now raos to
emancipate, does not seem so very wowdsrfal •
bargain to bare made. Eves the American ladies,
warm politicians as tbey are, can feel DO 11•01),
pleasure in the limited that they are now the
countrywomen of people about whom all that ir
known of any importance is that they lire upsar
train oil and blubber. The property may not cost o
great deal, and yet, like Benjunua Franklin's whistle,
be very dear at the prim. 'But," Gaye lb. Flearid.
"the annezatica or absorption of British Columbia
and Vaneoevrr's Island" must soon follow. The
New York World argued that the British posthisions
mast soon fall into Mr. Beward's ready lap. "If we
should never have another war with Great Britain
we shall never need the territory; if we should bath
• war we shall of morns take it" The New Pork
Tines argthd in • similar spirit ; but.
the Tribuna has owe down upon the scams with a
orashiog blow, and the public seem sow dimmed to
neer at the Rothan Minister, Mr. Seward, the
Esquimau, and the whole trouser:Mon. "The,
getting of all this land," says M. Greeley (aliens
word lam today with this of tboulande), "offers
es
no advantsge that oth counterbelanes the
objections to the treaty. We have more territory
that we meat" —it 0800 of plan and comisca maw
which it would do the people math geed to pet
fair!, into their minds. "The teadency of Repub-
lics is to upend beyond the limits of esononnoal
eimmoj," matinees Mr. Greeley. "We have
jimmuy no nes for this terrikey if we
ware it. We do not want any More areal depths
on the Pacific that we now have. the mare
euggeetion, which is put forward at least moth
ofloally, that the oompation of Raman America
will be • sort of mimeos to Great Britian by inter-
posia4 Wirth° her American ptheankas and the
Pacific, ought to madam the whole projeth We
bare on osension to be dealing in lawlessness. If
we mat • quarrel with that Power we am haws it
any day without going to the North Padilla Oman
for a proton. We mei no reason to signora Great
Britain would quarrel—bow ocreld she?

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