I have been looking them over.

Matters look serious at the South; they are mad there; great decision and prudence will be required to restore them to reason again, but they are so hot-headed, and are so far committed, I know not what will be the issue.

Yet I think our institutions are equal to any crisis....
"_October 6, 7 o'clock._ We are getting under way.

Good-bye." It is greatly to be regretted that Morse did not, on this voyage as on previous ones, keep a careful diary.

Had he done so, many points relating to the first conception of his invention would, from the beginning, have been made much clearer.