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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
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Henry M. Field
105
"I
might
enlarge
further
on
this
subject,
but
I
forbear
to
do
so,
because
I
know
that
at
some
future
time
I
shall
come
across
the
record
of
what
I
have
said
to-day.
I
know
that
then
what
I
have
said
to-day,
by
way
of
anticipation,
will
fall
so
far
short
of
the
reality
of
benefits
which
individuals,
States,
and
nations
will
have
derived
from
this
great
enterprise,
that
I
shall
not
reflect
upon
it
without
disappointment
and
mortification."
After
such
arguments,
it
should
seem
that
there
could
be
but
one
opinion,
and
yet
the
bill
passed
the
Senate
by
only
one
majority!
It
also
had
to
run
the
gauntlet
of
the
House
of
Representatives,
where
it
encountered
the
same
hostility.
But
at
length
it
got
through,
and
was
signed
by
President
Pierce
on
the
third
of
March,
the
day
before
he
went
out
of
office.
Thus
it
became
a
law.
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