The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-12
CHI ES TON.
FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 70, 1867.
THE RUSSIAN TREATY.

This treaty, annexing the Russian posses
sions in North America to the United States,
has been ratified, and we have the satisfaction
of knowing that when we do get back into the
Union. it will be considerably larger Union
than when we left it. There appears to be
some doubt as to the character and extent OF
the advantages Of which we will then be par
takers. The most liberal statement OF the
friends of the treaty, embrace positive coal
mines, possible gold mines, a sufficient supply
of furs, surplus of fish, and ice enough TO
make national ice-house, and to do away
with the necessity of protective tariff on the
domestic manufacture of that very important
article.
Mr.. SEwARD's diplomatic life has been very
eventful, and with great difficulties he has had,
thanks to us, great success. Although ably
supported by Mr.. ADAMS, at London, and Mr.
DAYTON, at Paris, he has owed much to fortune
and to General GRANT; and the Trent affair,
after NIL, can only take it's place in diplomatic
history as an ingenious extrication from not
very pardonable blunder. But the foreign
minister who has added $4,000 square miles
to the area of the republic, has certainly some
solid ground to stand upon, and as that terri
tory is said to contain the highest mountain in
the world, he has provided o fit pinnacle from
which the American Eagle can, when the days
of good feeling come back, "spread. itself
over the immense country That will then lie
peacefully beneath the shadow of its wings
And now, as this is achieved, and especially as
the :sixty day notes no longer need renewal,
but have been paid up in full with interest, the
venerable SIMEON, of the State Department,
can say to Mr.. JOHNSON: Now let thy servant
depart in the blessed hope of diplomatic I'M
mortality. 4;L
The treaty is wise one, and the Senate did
right to ratify it even if the territory is not as
valuable Us represented. And the price is
scarcely worth considering when we reflect
that either Mr.. PEABODY, Mr. AsToR, or Com
modore VANDERBILT could have paid it, or Mr.
JEROME could have bought and divided it into
prize farms to the successful competitors for
.sgentlemanly conduct"
It is very clear that, following the instinct
of proprietorship that is always developed from
a plantation.to an empire, we intend to own
this continent 'from the centre all round to
the sea- and to realize the humorous anticipa-
tion of one Of our old-time statesmen, who,
upon the acquisition Of Louisiana, exclaimed:
awe are growing-we are growing Just
think what splendid mileage those fellows will
have who are Senators from Patagonia and the
North Pole.
The Canadas are only taking q round about
way to come into the glorious Union, and to
bring Prince of the blood royal with them
who will be endorsed by Mr.. BENNETT, Jr. :.
And the Austrian Minister has appealed
,piteously to Mr.. SEWARD to let poor MAXI
MILAN get safe home. - e
Russia did not want the country; we would
not have let anybody elss have it,. SO we made
fair trade, and now, while French and Eng
lish, Austrians and Prussians, Russians and
Italians, are quarreling over Eastern questions
and German questions, Brother Jonathan can
sit with sublime Indifference on the top of the
Alleghanies and spit his tobacco into either the
Atlantic or Pacific, whiting huge California
timber with clasp knife made of iron out Of
his mountains, and mix his cobbler with
lemons grown in his own tropics, and cooled
with ice brought from his own Arctic circle. u