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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
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Henry M. Field
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"A
friend
of
mine,
Cyrus
Field,
of
New
York,
is
the
Columbus
of
our
time,
for
after
no
less
than
forty
voyages
across
the
Atlantic,
in
pursuit
of
the
great
aim
of
his
life,
he
has
at
length,
by
his
cable,
moored
the
New
World
close
alongside
the
Old."
Nor
was
this
mere
rhetoric,
a
burst
of
extravagance,
to
which
an
orator
might
give
way
in
the
excitement
of
a
public
occasion;
it
was
a
comparison
which
he
repeated
on
many
occasions,
though
slightly
varied
in
expression.
Mr.
G.
W.
Smalley,
the
well-known
correspondent
of
the
New
York
Tribune,
in
writing
from
London,
on
the
very
day
that
Mr.
Field
was
carried
to
his
grave,
recalls
how
he
heard
it
from
Mr.
Bright's
own
lips.
He
says:
"The
great
orator
spoke
of
the
great
American
in
terms
which
he
did
not
bestow
lavishly,
and
never
bestowed
carelessly.
His
respect
for
Mr.
Field's
public
work
was
sufficiently
shown
in
the
splendid
eulogy
which
he
passed
upon
him.
To
be
called
by
such
a
man
as
Mr.
Bright
the
Columbus
of
the
Nineteenth
Century
is
renown
enough
for
any
man.
The
epithet
is
imperishable.
It
is,
as
Thackeray
said
of
a
similar
tribute
to
Fielding
in
Gibbon,
like
having
your
name
written
on
the
dome
of
St.
Peter's.
The
world
knows
it
and
the
world
remembers.
I
heard
Mr.
Bright
use
the
phrase,
and
he
adorned
and
emphasized
it
in
his
noblest
tones."
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