Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-08-07
De Protundi.-Te Donm!

America received yesterday with unexpres-
sible Joy the tidings that the Niagara had ar
rived at Newfoundland.
in other columns the reader will find every
detail yet received respecting the magic cable.
1t will never transmit to either continent in
telligenoe so important, as is the message told
by that first throb, which announces that 1t
has found its place unbroken. all our hopes
for the million uses by which it shall serve
society, unite in the exutation of today's
victory.
On the fourth of August, 1892, Christopher
Columbus lost sight of the most western
highlands of Europe, = which he was not to
see again till he returned to give to Europe
his gift of this New World. Three hundred
and sixty-six years pass away, and on the
same day the noblest vessel in the New
Worlds navy comes in sight of the most
eastern of the highlands of North America !;
and as the sun goes down she connects with
the American shores the thread which gives
Europe and America to each other. A males
tic celebration of the great hero's faithful
endeavor, at the end of year of years after
it was made
The first feeling in the midst of this success
is thanksgiving to God in whose Providence
man is crowned with glory and honor, made
lord Of the sea and all that therein is,-and
master of the powers of nature so long as he
subdues them to the high purposes of their
Author. We praise God this day, that He
has so trained nations and men that men can
work out this maj este invention that his
two greatest nations are not declared by any
heather jealousies from attempting the kiss
of brotherhood and that they have combin
ed together in the most kindly rivalry, to
bring together that which was parted in his
world, and to fulfil SO far the most eager
portion of the most solemn of prayers, that
men "all may be one 20
So clear is it that the new tie is one more
step in the fulilment of that prayer of the Sa-
viour, that it has been announced that the
fret signal from shore, sent from the queen of
one land to the highest citizen of the other,
would be the prophecy with'which the angels
heraded His birth
"Peace earth, good will toward men.n
No message could be more appropriate.
We dare not at such a moment indulge in
prophecy. We are not certain of peace, be.
cause, with flash, we can, if we will, re-
move jealousies on the one side of the ocean
or the other. There needs that will, as well
as the way. England and Russia did not
cease to fight when London could telegraph
to Sebastopol. Still, it is not daring TOO much
to say, that, with each step that brings Chris
tian nations together, the danger Of thor war
fare is further removed. And, as the very
existence of this electric chord and the cor
dial alliance between the Agamemnon and
the Niagara testify to q warm attachment be .
tween the mother nation and her daughter,
such as never united States before, we have
entire right to draw the happiest auguries for
the future from the completion of a material
10 oh a nil Nd r
tions have created. 1t symbolizes by the most
subtle of auspices the tenderness which, in
fact, beneath oil superficial storms, binds the
hearts of the two together.
1t is always impossible to array against
each other the gifts which the old world has
made to the new, or the new world to the
old. Europe sent us here. and as three hum
dred years have passed, we have by such OF.
/ terings as we could, expressed to her our graf
itude for gift no immeasurable as the gift Of
such a home. AS the progress of discovery
| has gone forward, each continent has instant
| ly reflected every light which has flashed up
in the other, and it has sometimes been i'm .
possible to tell which owed the first raw to the
other. 1t would be as easy for sehoolnen
| 10 decide whether the fame Of Columbus was
| European or American, as for men of physical
science to tell us whether the Agamemnon
| owed more to Fulton than the Niagara owed
to Watt. The discovery of the gaivanic cur
rent to which we owe the thrill Of delight OF
yesterday, is undoubtedly European; that
form Of the discovery Of its magnetic power,
to which also we owe the thrill Of delight OF
yesterday, is undoubtedly American. The
one Of these discoveries is as essential to the
| Atlantic Telegraph as the other
But, in this case, we may add what's more
! remarkable, that the great invention Of Prof