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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
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Other
cities
were
equally
gracious,
equally
complimentary,
but
equally
prudent.
In
New
York
he
succeeded
better,
but
only
by
indefatigable
exertions.
He
addressed
the
Chamber
of
Commerce,
the
Board
of
Brokers,
and
the
Corn
Exchange,
and
then
he
went
almost
literally
from
door
to
door,
calling
on
merchants
and
bankers
to
enlist
their
aid.
The
result
was,
subscriptions
amounting
to
about
seventy
thousand
pounds,
the
whole
of
which
was
due
to
persevering
personal
solicitation.
Even
of
those
who
subscribed,
a
large
part
did
so
more
from
sympathy
and
admiration
of
his
indomitable
spirit
than
from
confidence
in
the
success
of
the
enterprise.
In
England,
however,
the
subject
was
better
understood.
For
obvious
reasons,
the
science
of
submarine
telegraphy
had
made
greater
advances
in
that
country
than
in
ours.
As
England
is
an
island,
she
is
obliged
to
hold
all
her
telegraphic
communication
with
the
continent
by
cables
under
the
sea.
She
has
colonial
possessions
in
all
parts
of
the
world.
A
power
that
rules
so
large
a
part
of
the
earth
cannot
be
shut
up
in
her
island
home.
No
one
has
depicted
the
extent
of
her
dominion
in
nobler
phrase
than
our
own
Webster
when
he
speaks
of
the
imperial
sway
which
"has
dotted
the
face
of
the
whole
globe
with
its
possessions
and
military
posts,
whose
morning
drumbeat,
following
the
sun
and
keeping
company
with
the
hours,
encircles
the
whole
earth
with
one
continuous
and
unbroken
strain
of
the
martial
airs
of
England."
Was
it
strange
that
this
mother
of
nations
should
reach
out
her
long
arms
to
embrace
her
distant
children?
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