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Title: The Louisiana purchase, and our title west of the Rocky Mountains, with a review of annexation by the United States
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: United States. General Land Office Hermann, Binger, 1843-1926
Subjects: Louisiana Purchase
Publisher: Washington : Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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and the people. Mr. B. F. Butler, Massachusetts, July 7, 1868, said: If we are to pay for her (Russias) friendship this amount, I desire to give her the $7,200,000 andlet her keep Alaska. * * * i have no doubt that any time within the last twenty years we couldhave had Alaska for the asking. I have heard it was so stated in the Cabinets of two Presidents,provided we would have taken it as a gift. But no man, except one insane enough to buy the earth-quakes in St. Thomas and the ice fields in Greenland, could be found to agree to any other terms forits acquisition to the country. Mr. Benjamin F. Loan, of Missouri, said: The acquisition of this inhospitable and barren waste would never add one dollar to the wealthof our country or furnish homes to otir people. To suppose that anyone would willingly leave the
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165^ Til 150 ■ 135 \ \ \ 68 t I -X \ - J. ifirj tt ji > a>tl« -Pcit 155° , : _ : neported gold dnCoal deposits.Copper deposits.Q Land Offices,^■m?^^^ Land district boundaries.O Capital, Surveyor General s Office . Routes to interior. Proposed Railroads. 140 52 135- THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE. 53 mild climate and fruitful soil of the United States, with its newspapers and churches, its railroads andcommerce, its civilization and refinement, to seek a home among the Aleuts * * * is simply tosuppose such person insane. Mr. Williams, of Pennsylvania, said: Have the people desired it? (The purchase of Alaska.) Not a sensible man among them hadever suggested it. The whole country exclaimed at once, when it was made known to it, against theineffable folly, if not the wanton profligacy, of the whole transaction. There is no man here, I think,who would have advised it. I doubt whether there are twenty in this House who would be willing tovote for it now, but for the single reason that

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