The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1867-04-13
Russian America.

Doubtless President johnson would bc glad to
do something TO give his Administration little
celebrity. lie tried his Reconstruction scheme,
but /, tailed most signaly and now Mr.. John
son, backed to the utmost of his ability BY Mr..
Seward, has turned his attention TO the aequisi-
ton Of territory and proposes TO annex Russian
America TO the United States.
This Russian America Is situated In the North.
western par, Of North America aud extends to
Behring's Straits. Il is a vast almost uninhab-
TIED, desoaie region, Astounding with ice, snow,
rock few Esquimaux Indians, and furs The
Car OF Russia proposed To sell It to the United
States five or six years ago. and then only asked
$500, 600 Tor Il, but now IT is proposed TO give
- 500, 600. The preliminary negotiations are
all completed, aud the matter i. now before the
United States Senate at Washington, nothing
else Ia talked o. and the q" treaty Is the subject
OF every circle OF takers Mr. Stewards dinner
table is spread regularly with roas, treaty, boiled
treaty. treaty in bottles, treaty IN dccaniers
treat, garnished with appointments To Office
treaty IN statistics, treaty IN a military point Of
view. treaty IN territorial grandeur view. irea-
s. clad ia igrs, ornamcnici With walrus-tecth
iFingcd with timber. and Hopping with fish In
short. the administration at Washington has
q treaty on the brain Mr. Seward has pub.
lished a circular. setting forth the many adyan-
iages 10 accrue To this United States. hut ioesnt
mention the fact tia; sof, Of reciprocity treaty
between Great Britain and Russia cover. the ter.
ri,ory TO be ccded 10 US, and that If We take the
ice, rocks and EsquimaX we take them mortgage
/ Cd with 4 British right to hunt. trade and fish
over the country and in its waicrs-;hat We shall
get for our money only the legal title TO- and poi-
| ical jurisdiction over. wilderness whose polar
/ game and fsh constitute i,s only possible value
which the British Hudson Bag Company now
has 40 equal right 10 with the Russians and will
hereafter have M equal right to with u.
Russian America is inhabited by dfiy-thousand
{ fishing. trapping, iur-hcaring Esqunlaux and
nine or Ten thousand Russians. Russian Amcri-
cans. aud people whom the gaze;,ecrs cal. Al
eoo,s and kodiaks. They impor, good par, OF
their provisions. aud export yearly diminish.
iaZ quantity Of furs The country is a frozen
wilderness better known 20 arctic explorers and
whaleFs than mos; other men The territory
would make about twenty States the size % Ma.
ryland. VIVA; We wan, % il, unless 20 cree; Il
into a territory and call !, Seward We 10 no,
know, but wc doub; whether /, would paw TO
buy the privilege Of flying the star. and Stripes
over such worthless country. We do not wan,
far-di'tan' detached colonies. nor ice aud snow
territories nor Esquimaux fellow-citzens. nor
vi Saint Elias and there {. nothing else TO he
bad from Alaska TO Barrow Poin,, 50 Gar as We
know. We hoTe the Senate Of the United States
will quietly veto the arrangement, Of Mr. Seward
and Mr. Johnson and leave Car Of Russia TO
look after his own territory. We do no, wan,
any more territory, and neither will our large
cities hc much benefited hy having New Arch.
angel aiici TO their number