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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
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Henry M. Field
99
"It
appears
not
to
have
been
contemplated
by
the
British
Government
that
there
would
ever
be
any
interruption
of
the
amicable
relations
between
the
two
countries.
Therefore
nothing
was
proposed
in
their
contract
for
the
contingency
of
war.
"That
the
two
termini
are
both
in
the
British
dominions
is
true;
but
it
is
equally
true
that
there
is
no
other
terminus
on
this
continent
where
it
is
practicable
to
make
that
communication
except
in
the
British
dominions.
We
have
no
dominions
on
the
other
side
of
the
Atlantic
Ocean.
There
is
no
other
route
known
on
which
the
telegraphic
wire
could
be
drawn
through
the
ocean
so
as
to
find
a
proper
resting-place
or
anchorage
except
this.
The
distance
on
this
route
is
seventeen
hundred
miles.
It
is
not
even
known
that
the
telegraphic
wire
will
carry
the
fluid
with
sufficient
strength
to
communicate
across
those
seventeen
hundred
miles.
That
is
yet
a
scientific
experiment,
and
the
Company
are
prepared
to
make
it.
"In
regard
to
war,
all
the
danger
is
this:
There
is
a
hazard
of
war
at
some
future
time,
and
whatever
arrangements
we
might
make,
war
would
break
them
up.
No
treaty
would
save
us.
My
own
hope
is,
that
after
the
telegraphic
wire
is
once
laid,
there
will
be
no
more
war
between
the
United
States
and
Great
Britain.
I
believe
that
whenever
such
a
connection
as
this
shall
be
made,
we
diminish
the
chances
of
war,
and
diminish
them
in
such
a
degree,
that
it
is
not
necessary
to
take
them
into
consideration
at
the
present
moment.
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