Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . Indiana, whosename came last on the list, to decide thequestion. He, however, had paid no atten-tion to the matter, and, like the majority of GREAT AJSTD MEMORABLE EVENTS. 349 people, consid
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . Indiana, whosename came last on the list, to decide thequestion. He, however, had paid no atten-tion to the matter, and, like the majority of GREAT AJSTD MEMORABLE EVENTS. 349 people, considered it a great humbug. Hehad not tlie faintest idea of the importanceto his country, of the vote he was to as fortune would have it, the thoughtcame to mind that Mr. Morse was eventhen experimenting in the capitol with the new-fangled invention, having stretcheda wire from the basement story to theante-room of the senate chamber. It wastherefore in Governor Wallaces power tosatisfy himself at once in regard to thequestion of feasibility, and he determinedto try it. He asked leave to consider hisvote. This was granted. He imme-diately stepped out of the committee room,and went to the ante-chamber, which wasfound crowded with representatives andstrangers. Governor Wallace requestedpermission to put a question to the mad-man (Morse) at the other end of thewire. It was granted immediately. He. C _ wrote the question and handed it to thetelegrapher. The crowd cried ^ read!read! In a very short time the answerwas received. When written out by theoperator, the same cry of read it ! readit ! went up from the crowd. To his utter astonishment, GovernorWallace found that the madman at that end of the wire had more wit and force than thecongressmen at the other—the laugh wasturned completely upon the , as western men are rarely satisfiedwith one fall—not less than two failuresout of three attempts forcing from themany acknowledgment of defeat, — thegovernor
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