The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-09-22

subserve, in the intercourse of men. We
are at a great advance upon the expert
ment of 1843. What has an inscrutable
and all wise Providence to bring out,
within the next fifteen years. This ques-
ton is put, not with reference to the ex-
tension of Telegraphic wires, but to the
modes Of communicating through them.
The question of covering the earth with
this network, and connecting Continents
through intervening Oceans, being settled,
the next great effort of ingenuity will be
to perfect the apparatus by which comniu-
nications are to be made, SO that the
greatest possible amount of intelligence
may be conveyed in the shortest possible
time. Methods may, and must be devised
by which the present rate per minute,
shall be very greatly increased. How
else is the vast intercourse of the world
through this channel, to be carried on 2
How long will men be content with COM
munications of anything of urgent inter-
est, by mail conveyances Who with any
considerable experience of Railroad con-
veyance, is not inpatient at the slow pro-
! gress of even en-miles-an-hour staging
We scarce begin to conceive the extent to
which the intercommunication of men are
to be carried on through the electro-mag-
netic telegraph, nor the extent to which
human ingenuity is to be taxed to meet
the almost illimitable want Of the world,
in the great future of its extended civili-
aation.
What woodworking Providence it
is, that has brought out this great discov-
cry, and conducted it to its present aston
ishing result, opening such glorious vista
into the future A moments glance con-
iounds, and almost siences me. The
theme is too great for the brief utterrnces
TO which the proprieties Of this communi-
cation restrain me. To Commerce, through
its thousand channels, shall this wonder
full agency be ready minister 1t shall
become an indispensable instrument of
Diplomatic Intercourse. 1t shall be
channel of daily communication between
Governments and their Officers and De-
tendencies. The government at London,
for example, shall receive daily intelli-
gcnce, through $4,000 miles of wire, from
the governments, and military and naval
stations, of British dependencies in every
quarter of the globe. In short, as are the
nerves of sensation, and may almost say,
of power, in the human body, so shall be
the net work of telegrnphc wires to the
human family. The world will be brought
indeed, almost to the intimacy of the fam
lily relation.-Iluman intercourse !-Hu-
man sympathy Human fellowship -
Human BROTHERHOOD What relation
do these bear to each other and how
they all stand connected with the wonder
full means of intercommunication, which
late events have brought to the attention
of wondering world.
Pardon the addition of few words to
this already too heightened communica-
tion. 1t is to me very impressive fact,
that your celebration of this great event
is brought into immediate connexion with
Military demonstration. Through one,
you turn your eyes back upon the history
of long past, filled with records stained
with human blood Through the other
you look out upon future full of hope,-
hope of the worlds relief from wars des.
olating scourge "a future in which the
great, benefcient agency of which we
speak, is to become, eminently, an instru-
ment of peace. Yes, thank God to the
spread of the Gospel,-the christianizing
of the natians, and the ushering in OF
Millenial glory, is this agency to be made
a ready and efficient minister. HoLINEss
TO THE LORD shall be written on the door
of every Telegraph Station upon earth
while peace on earth, good will to men
and Glory to God in the highest, shall be
the burden of the messages, as they fash
round redeemed and regenerated world
With respectful regards to your Com.
mittee of Arrangements, am, sir, st
Very Respectfully and Truly Yours.
WILLIAM SLADE