The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-08-19
TIE SUCCESS or THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH
THE SPIRIT or THE PRESS
Irrom lne New York rrl1uas, Aug. bal

peace and concord and may the electric flashes which
play beneath the oceans bed from continent to continent
suppant evernore the belchings Of hostile artillery and
the rafting volleys of murderons masketry
From York Evening Post, Aug MI
No communication from sovereign expected
80 impatently by large portion Of the human
that fragment of which reached the city yesterday,
and the whole Of which has arrived to-day from the
Queen of England IL marks IN the history Of tho
human family. IL is outward and visible symbol Of
one of the most remarkable trumPhs of science aud
nature which have been achieved IN ancient OF mod
ern times Like the invention OF printing and the dis
coyery of the magnetic needle it will give new impulse
and new direction to the civilization of the world for
all time to come.
From the Philadelphia Evening Argus, August III
If new continent had been discovered, If all Europe
had thrown off her degrading letters OF vassaage and had
adopted republican form Of government our " free and
enlightened () citizens could not have been thrown into
violent ecsasies than they have merely because
wire is laid which will more closely connect US with our
inveteae, hereditary, and deadly foe, Great Britain.
We do bur exhibit painful subseryicncy to the
mother govern men in all these puerc and worse than
Juvenile manifestations
From The Bosten Post, August III
The Atlantic telegraph cable then is a success Away
with the dishonorng thought that advance In the
knowledge of the properties and OF that nature which
God has made tends to work evil to humanity Rather
let the noble experience of good evolved out OF such adj
in the past constitute the cheering assurance that
continuance of the same flow OF good is In store @a
result of every extension of the knowledge of and
OF his power over the forces of nature
From the Now Commercial Advertiser, Aug. III
The greatest triumph that man has achieved has
been won. The seemingly insuperble obstacles have
been overcome. The most sanguine hopes have been
realized Distance has been annihilated Time has
found its competitor and equal The ocean bed has
become instinct with intelligence, thought and speech
Anew has been nauguracd. The world Is not what
it was month ago 1t is girdlcd with Not
thought only, but Speech travels with lightning speed
through the sea. The dark and hitherto unfathomed
of henceorh to be resonant with human
voices and deep in its untrodden is sung the
Joyous anthem GLORY to God in the highest; on Garth
peace and good will toward men,
[From the New York Journal Of Commerce, Aug, III
The long suspense which almost il it had
been protracted with purpose and dramatic skill only
adds to the effect and brliancy of the dnouemeM This
substantial evidence of the triumph Of science skill
a courage and energy the elements of nature and
the mysterious forces of the great deep is laid before
time when public expectation had begun to take the
form of doubt and doubt to assume the hue of incredu
to the efficiency Of tho present enterprise But the
winged words which have passed between tho shores
of Europe and America have annihatcd doubt and the
electric flash from Vaenta bay thrills this morning
through millions Of proud aud happy hearts, This is not
the occasion to speculate the immediate effects Of the
great triumph to dwell upon the new era in civliz
ton which seems to open it better to yield TO
the joyous and spontaneous impulses OF the hour to ex
change congratulations with friends and the world
to celebrate the day in worthy Of the dignity
and sendor of the event. and to salute with appropriate
honos those heroic pioneers both sides of the ocean
who in linking together the two continents have earned
for themselves and place among tho great ben
cfactoIs of the
From Daily Pennsylvania Ang 1871
We regard this Us of the greatest trumphs Of
this age of progress and science The achievement Is
stupendous that event in history bears the rcmoest
comparison with it its influence and effect upon cvil
zaton will be stupendous Also and cannot be but truly
beneficial We that this latter point is sub
jcct of doubt with some Of our cotemporares and por
ton of the community, but consider their fears and
apprchensions wholly unfounded They think that the
Geographic union of Europe and Amcrcnke the union
of stronger and weaker powerwill only tend to in
the ascendency of the former We deny both the
premises and logic Of this argument National strength
is enphatically moral force, and Is not determined by
density Of populations the relation Of Europe to Asia
clearly demonstrates Has not the weight of our Amer
lean opinions already made deep impressions upon the
European mind To whom is the world indebted for the
great reforms in the code Of international law
and who has freed the and scattered the letters that
bound down commerce and navigation We deny that
the weaker power. IL is on the contrary, Amer
that is in the ascendency and the transatlantic elc
graph is but another and powerful means to assert our
superiority The advantages that will flow from the At
antc telegraph however are not on one side; they are
mutual.
From the Boston Daily Traveller Aug III
Perhaps it is much say that the of the
Atlantic telegraph should be regarded the browning
act in series OF events that have brought Europe and
America into communication close that they must
hereafter have but and the interest. There
end to the power Of science that inexbaustbc store
house from which has been drawing literally for
ages without apparently finding any dimnution of the
but making of each discovery or invention the means
OF obtaining other greater prizes Yet it is difficult to
understand how anything superior to that which has just
been accomplished can be effected An agency that has
annhilated three thousand miles in moment which has
reduced fortnight Of the most perfect of steam navi
CATION modes minutes would to be something
that cannot be improved upon and far the trans
mission of language that .'incarnation of thought, IL
concerned it is not presumptnous to assert that improve
ment has reached its limit. 1t is probablcwe may
| it is certainthat rapid and cheaper communca-
ton will be attained the telegraph itself being In its in
fancy but that shall ever be able to improve upon
the main thing il something quite incomprehensbc to
human faculties Undoubtedly it to be with the tcle
graph what it has been with the press which mt first was
agency for the benefit Of the few while its effect on
| the masses for years mperceptibc; but the time
came vixen it made made ITSELF the agent OF the
masses aud aided them to become well governed cuF
vated and reasonable beings SO may 1t be with the
telegraph For short time it may be employed prind-
pally the (so-caed leading interests Of the world
but it must to do the work of millions and scen-
tifc discovery will be the power that shall compel to
do that work as has been the with the press Time
may show that there great difference between the
telegraph that is and the telegraph that is to BIO as there
is between the press from which fell the sheets OF tho
huge costly books of the fifteenth century and the
Hoe press whence proceed every hour myras OF new@
pers that afforded at the lowest conceivable prices TO
| millions of readers.
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/ TIRE AT TIE CITY HALL, NEW YORK.
| Tron the Now York Herald Aug 1871