Hubert, Philip Gengembre, 1852-1925 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 148
)r()aching its crisis. The con- SAMUEL F. B. MORSE 139 vention assembled and Henry Clay was nom-inated by acclamation to the Presidency. Thenews was conveyed on the railroad to thepoint reached by the telegraph and thence in-stantly transmitted over the wires to Washing-ton. An hour afterward… … Morse in his Study.(From an old print.) find that the announcement had been made al-ready and that they were the bearers of oldnews. The convention shortly afterward nom-inated Frelinghuysen as Vice-President, andthe intelligence was sent to Washington in thesame manner. Public astonishment was…
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