The only difficulty that remains is obtaining funds, which Congress can furnish, to carry it into execution.

I have a great deal to say, but must stop for want of time to write more." But he does not stop.

He is so full of his subject that he continues at some length:-- "Everything done by me in regard to the Telegraph is at arm's length.

I can do nothing without consultation, and when I wish to consult on the most trivial thing I have three letters to write, and a week or ten days to wait before I can receive an answer.
"I feel at times almost ready to cast the whole matter to the winds, and turn my attention forever from the subject.

Indeed, I feel almost inclined, at tunes, to destroy the evidences of priority of invention in my possession and let Wheatstone and England take the credit of it.