Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. “We should then have only to include the North (Canada) in our confederacy…and we should have such an empire for liberty as she has never surveyed since the creation: And I am persuaded no constitution was ever before so well calculated as ours for extensive empire and self-government.” Thomas Jefferson in a letter to James Madison, 1809 Like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, William H. Seward, President Abraham’s Secretary of State, also dreamed of an “empire for liberty.” This was his main reason for purchasing Alaska on this day, March 31 in 1867, which many, at the time, thought was an enormous mistake. But in trying to establish…
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