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For assistance in understanding rights, obtaining permissions, or requesting files for publication or research purposes, please contact us at <a href=\"www.gettysburg.edu/special-collections/ask-an-archivist\">www.gettysburg.edu/special-collections/ask-an-archivist</a>"},{"label":"Citation","value":"Creator (if known), Title, Date (if known), GettDigital: Civil War Era Collection, Special Collections and College Archives, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Access Date, Link to Item"},{"label":"Genre","value":["Political cartoons"]},{"label":"Type","value":["Text","Image"]},{"label":"Part of","value":["Civil War Era (1830-1877) GettDigital Collection"]},{"label":"Era","value":["Antebellum"]},{"label":"Subject","value":["United States--Foreign relations--Europe","Europe--Foreign relations--United States","Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872"]},{"label":"Metadata Researcher","value":"Gross, Matthew R."},{"label":"Language","value":["eng"]},{"label":"Description","value":"Several attempts were made at a Trans-atlantic telegraph beginning in 1857 and the first successful connection was completed in 1858. This cartoon is mocking Horace Greeley's reaction to the situation. Having been rather pessimisstic regarding the cable's success, he quickly adopted a celebratory tone when the first successful transmission between Queen Victoria and James Buchanan was sent. The illustrations show Greeley's progression of motives and emotions throughout the process. In the first illustration he is observing a \"wooden model of the public\" with a Harper's Weekly in it's back pocket. In the second illustration Greely is juvenilely playing with his fingers. In the last illustration he is stomping his feet and throwing his hat in anger. The combination of these illustrations are meant to present Greeley as incompetent and manipulative, and therefore he is angry at the sucess of the trans-atlantic cable which will increase the accuracy and speed of news travel. This is implying that Greeley capitalized on the inefficiencies of news dissemination to manipulate stories. Ironically, this first trans-atlantic cable broke a month later and a new wire was not installed successfully until 1865."},{"label":"Alternate Title","value":"BEFORE THE CABLE WAS LAID. It is demonstrated almost to a certainty that the paying-out machinery and the cable itself are inadequate to obtain the result wished for. A few days more, and the news of a new failure will make it plainer still that the operations have been conducted by me unqualified to overcome the difficulties they had to contend with.-N.Y. Tribune, Aug. 3 BEFORE THE QUEEN'S MESSAGE. We can not quite suppress a painful suspicion that the cable has not been stretched fully acoss the Atlantic at all- that there has been no communication whatever with Valentia, and will be none till another wire shall have been laid, and more successfully than this one. In short we have a shuddering suspicion that our electricians have been deceived by the return to them on the cable of their own messages, after the manner of an echo.- N.Y. Tribune, Aug. 16 AFTER THE MESSAGE. When the Niagara arrived she and her gallant officers were received with an electric enthusiasm such as ought to greet those who assisted at the nuptials of the Old World and the New. We shower benedictions upon Mr. Field and Captain Hudson. ** Let the ditcher throw down his spade and the woodman his axe, let the poor forget their sufferings and the rich their cares, while we raise one more general and hearty cheer for the success of the trans-Atlantic Telegraph.-N.Y. 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