The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-11-04
VOLUME TX.
Dinner to Prof. Morse in London

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Dinner to Prof Morse in London.
The following eloquent and beautiful speech
was made few weeks ago by Prof. Morse, al
q dinner given to him in London, by the
Telegraphists of England:
If we look now from
the origin of the invention to it's end, to its
great intent and, keeping out of sight all
mere personal views, if we think Of the mag
nfcent future, of a world brought and held
together in great telegraphc brotherhood,
there is enough of enjoyment in the thought
OF being in any way contributor to such
consummaton to satisfy the minds of the
most nordinate. The telegraph, wonderful
as has been its march over the world (and in
this, its progress, it seems to have borrowed a
speed from the mysterious agent which is its
active soul) has future which the past but
.F feebly foreShadows. To make it the world
wide blessing its Divine Author intends we
~ should be recreant to our high trust-to the
great mission with which we have by Him
been commssioned-if we permit narrow
selfshness, be it national or personal, to inter
tere with its progress. union of all is re-
, quired willing surrender of prejudice or
pride, or any other ignoble passion that may
thrust itself in the way. Cheers. And have
we not the most gratifying encourage
80 ment to go forward A European unity, in
-s political sense, problem which once
- engaged intensely many philosophc minds
We are to resolve the question of cosmopo-
Titan unity, of more comprehensive impor-
tance, if not directly in political, certainly
in a commercial point of view. Can the world
s. be brought into union What should pre-
vent? When | see at at this table my gene
rous friend of true Milesan energy and SYM
.-..a pathy, whose labors in India have already
prepared the far South to reach forth her cleo
r.I trio hands to greet the kindred hands of Eu-
rope stretched out to meet them when l see
in another place at your board, the indelatga-
BILE protector of the submarine connexions of
Great Britain and the continent, undaunted
by partial hilure-whose failures indeed not
ua his own, are only made the forerunners and
pledges of future success when again, see
near me my untirng, sleep deSpislng collabo-
teF- rators of the last Thursday night through
whose ingenious arrangements we were ena-
~ bled to prove beyond doubt the practicable
ty and practicality of the annexation of Europe
to America-you will not start at the word
it is an annexation which will awaken ma
tonaI jealousy, but be the bond of frmer
peace and better understanding; when | can
also greet at this board my enegetlc fellow
contryman whose perseverance knows no re-
mission, and whose efforts in the enterprise
are supported by kindred spirits in both coun-
tries and by the Governments of both coun-
tries and all these minds and means concen-
trated and engaged with all their migh to
accomplish this great and benevolent project
can there be rational doubt of the issue?
rsa (Cheers.) The telegraph has already achieved
~. for itself the conquest of vast domain. Its
-a- network covers the United States and North
America with the meshes of more than 10000
miles of conductors and Europe is covered
with network quite extensive. Shall its
conquests be stayed within its present limits?
J I belong, Mr. Chairman, to State of the
American Union which bears upon its escut-
cheon for its motto a single pregnant word
Excelsior" In common with the pthy and
beautiful sentiments which more than all ease
hallow your ime-honored armoral bearings
n its significance is not confined to family, state
ror nation. Imbibng, then, the spirit of this
motto we must not look downward and back.
ward but upward and forward, until by an
united and harmonious effort, all nations shall
be linked together in electric bonds, and the
telegraph over the land and beneath the sea
shall proclaim an universal union. Then may
another more comprehensive national motto,
5s.a made still more comprehensive by the substi-
sutton of single word to suit the new condi-
ton Of the world, be ftly adopted as the uni
versai telegraph motto, not "E pluribus unum, y
..sa but "E omnous unum.' (Cheers) But,
gentlemen, must not trespass on your time
eor patience. There are others here whose
names as familiar with US across the water
as household Words who can give pithy SEN
tment and an intellectual repasS far richer
and more refreshing than anything can fur
nish; and besides, gentleman, if have under
stood the spirit of your invitation, was not
invited here to entertain, but to be entertain
ed