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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
187
But
in
this
country
titles
and
honors
come
not
from
the
Government,
but
from
the
people.
Popular
enthusiasm
exhausted
itself
in
eulogies
of
the
man
who
had
linked
the
Old
World
to
the
New.
It
seems
strange
now
to
sit
down
in
cold
blood
and
read
what
was
published
in
the
papers
of
that
day.
A
collection
of
American
journals
issued
during
that
eventful
month,
August,
1858,
would
be
a
literary
curiosity.[A]
Nor
was
it
merely
in
such
outward
demonstrations
that
the
public
enthusiasm
showed
itself.
The
feeling
struck
deeper,
and
reached
all
minds.
While
the
people
shouted
and
cannon
roared,
sober
and
thoughtful
men
pondered
on
the
change
that
was
being
wrought
in
the
earth.
Business
men
reasoned
how
it
would
affect
the
commerce
of
the
world,
while
the
philanthropic
regarded
it
as
the
forerunner
of
an
age
of
universal
peace.
The
first
message
flashed
across
the
sea--even
before
that
of
the
Queen--had
been
one
of
religious
exultation.
It
was
from
the
Directors
in
Great
Britain
to
those
on
this
side
the
Atlantic,
and,
simply
reciting
the
fact
that
Europe
and
America
were
united
by
telegraph,
at
once
broke
into
a
strain
of
religious
rapture,
echoing
the
song
of
the
angels
over
a
Saviour's
birth:
"Glory
to
God
in
the
highest;
on
earth,
peace,
good-will
toward
men."
Poetry
at
once
caught
up
the
strain.
The
event
became
the
theme
of
innumerable
odes
and
hymns,
of
which
it
must
be
said
that,
whatever
their
merit
as
poetry,
their
spirit
at
least
was
noble,
celebrating
the
event
chiefly
as
promoting
the
brotherhood
of
the
human
family.
The
key-note
was
struck
in
such
lines
as
these:
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Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
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Redo
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