Ho Became President in 1868 and Again in 1872
"By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened." —Job 37:10
"Hast thousand entered into the treasures of the snowfall? or hast grand seen the treasures of the hail…?" —Job 38:22
William H. Seward Purchases Alaska, March 30, 1868
rovidence surely is mysterious. Just in looking back, we see the remarkable ways and ways ordained of God to bring about the historical consequences. On the afternoon of Apr 5, 1865, the United States Secretarial assistant of Land, William Henry Seward, with his son Fred, daughter Fanny and Fanny'southward friend Mary Titus, collection in their carriage out Vermont Artery in Washington, D.C. The carriage door kept flying open and one of the men ordered the driver to fix it. Equally presently equally he alighted, the horses bolted full speed down the city street. Frederick jumped out immediately to help just was thrown to the ground. Secretary Seward jumped to cease the horses, simply tripped and vicious at high speed and suffered several severe injuries. A passing soldier stopped the carriage and Seward was taken to his abode unconscious. His injuries were severe with a dislocated shoulder, his jaw broken on both sides, and 1 arm broken in several places.
William H. Seward (1801-1872), U.S. Secretary of Country from 1861 to 1869, negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russian federation
Four days after the accident, General Lee surrendered at Appomattox. The Secretary was beginning to recover when, on April 14, "Proficient Friday" an assassin, Lewis Powell, broke into his domicile and attacked Seward. Although Powell's pistol misfired, he hurled himself on Secretarial assistant Seward, after wounding both Frederick and the butler. Powell cutting the Secretary'southward cheek badly, but the apparatus protecting his cleaved jaws deflected some of the potentially fatal blows. Fanny's screams brought son Augustus and others to wrestle with the killer, driving him out of the firm. That same night President Lincoln was assassinated past John Wilkes Booth, the leader of the conspiracy. Seward barely survived the attack, although it took months for him to return full strength to work as Secretary of State in the new assistants.
Powell's attack on Seward
Photo of Lewis Powell (1844-1865), would-exist assassin of Secretary Seward, and co-conspirator in the Abraham Lincoln bump-off, taken aboard the USS Saugus, where he was confined for a fourth dimension
William Henry Seward (1801-1872) was born into a slave-holding family unit in Orange County, New York. He served in Albany as a legislator from Auburn, New York, and was elected to the United States Senate in 1849. Seward joined the nascent Republican Party and rose through the ranks to become the foremost and favored potential candidate for President in 1860. So confident of election was he, that he took a European holiday during the campaigning months leading upward to the ballot. He and four or five other candidates were defeated past the complete political leader of Illinois, Abraham Lincoln. Seward was so skilled and politically powerful, that later the election, Lincoln chose him as Secretary of State, a function he relished and excelled in, equally expected, setting aside his personal ambitions, and remaining loyal to Lincoln'south assistants.
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth, Apr 14, 1865
After Lincoln's expiry, Seward remained in Andrew Johnson's cabinet and carried on an expansionist foreign policy, pursuing statehood for western territories, probing possibilities for annexing Canada, ownership Iceland and Greenland, and negotiating with the Russians to acquire Alaska, at the fourth dimension known as Russian America. Despite thousands of foursquare miles of frozen waste, a vigorous angling, whaling, and maritime culture, mostly Russian and native, clung to the shoreline and islands of the Aleutian archipelago. During the Ceremonious War, Russia had supported the Matrimony, even sending a naval squadron to visit in 1864. Seward had wined and dined the visitors and developed a very cordial and close relationship with the ambassador, Baron Eduard de Stoeckl. The Russian suggested during the war that Tsar Alexander Two might be interested in selling Russian America, given its distance from Moscow, influx of American pioneers, and the economical hard times for the Russian government. Seward did not forget those discussions and after the war broached the subject with Stoeckl over again.
Andrew Johnson (1808-1875) assumed the presidency on Apr 15, 1865 after the death of Abraham Lincoln
With White Business firm blessing, Seward negotiated a treaty with Russian federation to purchase Russian America, eventually agreeing to seven,000,000 dollars—about 2 cents per acre for a territory twice the size of Texas! The wily Secretary of Country began lining up Senate support for ratification. The opponents of the treaty in the Senate based their objections on the expense involved, the need for concentrating attention on domestic diplomacy, and sheer hatred of the administration. At the same time the treaty was under debate, the radical Republican Senate brought impeachment charges against President Johnson, and annihilation he wanted, they tended to oppose. In the end, notwithstanding, the treaty passed 37 to 2, a triumph for William H. Seward and the major accomplishment of the Andrew Johnson presidency.
Baron Eduard de Stoeckl (1804-1892) Russian diplomat best known for negotiating the sale of Alaska to the United States on behalf of Russia
The signing of the Alaska Treaty of Abeyance on March 30, 1867
"Seward's Ice Box," got the name of Alaska, a corruption of an Aleut word meaning "mainland." No other political leader had his eye on acquiring Alaska for so long, and no other politico had the ascendancy and skill to bring it to fruition. The New York lawyer who failed to go President, well-nigh died in a carriage accident and had, almost miraculously, survived a powerful assassination attempt, providentially lived long plenty to add a non-contiguous territory that long after his expiry erupted in a huge gold rush, provided a strategic stronghold of incalculable value a hundred years afterwards, and continues to provide an abundance of fish, minerals, oil, and geologic wonders as the 49th State of the Usa.
the $7.ii million check used to purchase for Alaska (roughly $110 million adjusted for inflation)
1868 map of the territory of Alaska (Russian America), ceded by Russia to the U.s.a.
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