The Alaskan Boundary Case (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Alaskan Boundary Case This company was the representative in that region of the Russian government and exercised full governmental powers. From establishments on the islands it extended its trade with the Indians along the continental shore. American vessels, in constantly increasing numbers from 1790, extended their trading into that region and greatly impaired the value of the monopoly that had been granted by the Russian government. The Americans disposed of their furs at Canton and thus secured a great advantage over the Russians, who were not permitted to enter that port. It was charged that the Americans sold liquor and firearms to the natives, which made them both insubordinate and dangerous. Representations were made by Russia to the government of the United States in regard to this "illicit traffic" in 1808 and 1810. After the war of 1812 American vessels increased their activity. In 1821, and mainly on account of American traders, another ukase was issued, addressed "unto all men," granting to Russian subjects all commercial and fishing rights along "the whole of the northwest coast of America from Behring Strait to the 51 north latitude." All foreign vessels were prohibited from approaching within one hundred miles of that coast, and were interdicted to carry on any traffic with the natives of the islands and "of the northwest coast of America in the whole extent here above mentioned." In the same year a monopoly of commerce and trade along this whole coast was given to the Russian-American Company, extending the former grant from the 55th down to the 51st parallel. The United States and Great Britain were formally notified by Russia of this action. At that time Great Britain had substantially no trade on the northwest coast of America, but the inhibition as to navigating within one hundred miles of this coast, and of the Russian coasts on the west of the Pacific, thus making, in effect a mare clausum of the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, at once alarmed Great Britain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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