I turn with some faint hope to my own country again.

Will Congress do anything, or is my time and your generous zeal and pecuniary sacrifice to end only in disappointment?
If so, I can bear it for myself, but I feel it most keenly for those who have been engaged with me; for you, for the Messrs.
Vail and Dr.Gale.But I will yet hope.

I don't know that our enterprise looks darker than Fulton's once appeared.

There is no intrinsic difficulty; the depressing causes are extrinsic.

I hope to see you soon and talk over all our affairs." Mr.Smith, in sending a copy of the above letter to Mr.Prime, thus explains the reference to Mr.Chamberlain:-- "The allusion made in the letter just given to the fate of Mr.
Chamberlain, was another depressing disappointment which occurred to the Professor contemporaneously with those of the Russian contract.