The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-30
MORE REBELLION.

And now it Is from that mysterious and
remote corner Of our vastly expanded terri
tory. Sitka, that come the last accounts of
war, trouble and rebellion. This Is the So
called capital Of that unhappy legacy be-
queathed to our nation by the Seward adj
ministration of our foreign affairs. The
Alaska purchase was one Of the grand tri-
umphs of the Sewardist diplomacy. To
iiatter and conciliate Russia, and induce her
to throw the weight Of her authority and
name against the South in our great civil
war, and, at the same time, to promote job
of ring In Washington, our government
consented to take this valueless ncumbrance
off the hands of Russia, and give her seven
millions of dollars in gold therefor. Seward
and Bob Walker wrote the most glowing ac-
counts of the value and richness of this coun-
try, of it's great fisheries, its forests of tim
ber it's mines of coal and its inexhaustible
fur treasures. Russia would only transfer it
to the United States out of her abundant af-
lection and admiration for our great re-
public and our institutions. She was
not In the habit of selling any por-
ton of her dominions, or of ever letting
any Of her territory go to any other power.
And SO h,rrah! A Republican administration
is enabled to place itself almost on level
with the Democratic administrations which
acquired Louisiana, Florida, Texas California
and New Mexico. This is the only territorial
acquisition which New England would over
acquiesce in-the only annexation she ever
approved. So the bargain was struck, and
the United States sent her soldiers and officers
to take possession of the country and extend
over 1t the freedom and protection of our re-
public. There was an awful awakening from
the delusion with which the jobberS of the
Russian ring had managed to possess the
government and the people. Our soldiers and
officials discovered that Russias great kind
ness in disposing of this remote colony was
an elephantine gift not worth the taking or
keeping, an arrant fraud and cheat, the profits
of which ennred to a set Of INSCRIPTIONS
Washingtonian jobbers. But it would never
do to admit the extent of our simplicity and
gullability and to accuse Republican patriots
and our good friend, His Imperial Majesty
of all the Russias, and so our government
was compelled to keep this precious
acquisition, and preserve at least some favor
or symbol of our title by maintaining q few
officials therein. Then, too, there was a job
in the seal fisheries, which could be given out
to some Radical ring and favorites. Even,
however, these ventures have proved of late
years very unremunerative and some months
ago it was brought home to our statesmen at
Washington that Alaska was not worth the
keeping; that neither soldiers nor officials
could live there, and that in the application of
the new rule of home government it would be
better to surrender it to its original and right
full possessors, the SEALS white bears and In
dams. So, as we We're given to understand
the country was ordered to be evacuated by
the troops and leaving behind a sick collector
and few officials we virtually abandoned the
wretched country. Seeing which, the Indians
have gone in and re-eStablshed themselves in
possession and power at Sitka, and protected
by the remoteness, the worthlessness and in
accessibility Of the place, have naturally, like
all such barbarians and some highly civilized
people, put on grand airs of Recommending
their own territory, and hurl some insoIent
taunts at the few white men who lineer in
the desolate God forsaken country. Doubt
less some contractors and jobbers will try to
persuade our Executive that national pride.
the assertion of the majesty and the power
of the Republic, demand the fitting out of some
costly expedition against these new rebels
We dissent from any such proposition, and
trust that our government will adopt the
wise policy of Dogberry in his charge to
the watch. If these vagabonds will not stop
and surrender, then let them go, and thank
the Lord I'VE are rid Of such precious
knayes.''