Ratifying "Seward's Folly"...
SPRINGFIELD DAILY REPUBLICAN, Massachusetts, April 10, 1867
- Alaska purchase - Seward's Folly
- William H. Seward - Russia
- Votes for ratification - success
Page 4 has a somewhat inconspicuous yet very historic report headed: "Washington" "Special Dispatch to the Republican" "The Purchase of Russia-America". The report mentions there were votes against it and: "...Three or four republican senators have indicated their purpose to oppose the whole project to the last...at 5 o'clock, however, a vote was taken & the treaty was ratified by the requisite two-thirds vote. The handful of democrats present of course voted for the treaty. Secretary Seward is in high glee over the result."
Eight pages, very nice condition.
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