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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
225
But
it
is
not
in
human
nature--least
of
all
in
American
nature--to
despond
long.
Though
ten
years
of
constant
defeat
would
seem
to
have
wrought
a
lasting
discouragement,
yet
again
and
again
did
the
baffled
spirit
of
enterprise
return
to
the
attempt.
In
January,
1864,
Mr.
Field
was
once
more
on
his
way
to
England.
He
found
the
Directors,
as
before,
deeply
interested
in
the
enterprise,
and
wishing
it
success.
With
a
grateful
heart
he
bore
witness
to
their
unfaltering
courage.
But
mere
courage
and
good
wishes
would
not
lay
the
Atlantic
Telegraph.
Yet
what
could
they
do?
They
could
not
be
expected
to
advance
all
the
capital
themselves.
They
had
already
subscribed
liberally,
and
he
could
not
ask
them
to
do
more.
But
with
all
the
efforts
that
had
been
made
in
England
and
America,
not
half
the
capital
was
yet
raised.
The
machinery
was
in
a
dead
lock,
with
little
prospect
of
being
able
to
move.
It
was
the
misfortune
of
the
enterprise
that
there
was
no
one
man
who
made
it
his
sole
and
exclusive
charge.
The
Board
of
Directors
contained
some
of
the
best
men
in
London.
But
they
were,
almost
without
exception,
engaged
in
very
large
affairs
of
their
own,
with
no
leisure
to
make
a
public
enterprise
their
special
care.
To
insure
success,
it
needed
a
trial
of
the
one-man
power--one
brain,
planning
night
and
day;
one
agency
incessantly
at
work,
stirring
up
directors,
contractors,
and
engineers;
and
one
will
pushing
it
forward
by
main
strength.
This
was
the
force
now
to
be
applied.
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