<span>The Treaty with Russia was negotiated and signed by Secretary of State William Seward and Russian Minister to the United States Edouard de Stoeckl. Critics of the deal to purchase Alaskacalled it "Seward's Folly” or “Seward's Icebox." Opposition to the purchase of Alaska subsided with the Klondike Gold Strike in 1896.</span>
The lines and phrases in the excerpt that suggest that redemption and danation are predestined and cannot be changed by human choice The reward of sin is death: that's hard.