I ask not this until they have thoroughly examined its merits, but will they not assist me in placing the matter fairly before them?
Surely so small a sum to the Government for so great an object cannot reasonably be denied.
I hardly know in what form this request of mine should be made.

Should it be by petition to Congress, or will this letter handed in to the committee be sufficient?
If a petition is required, for form's sake, to be referred to the committee to report, shall I ask the favor of you to make such petition in proper form?
You know, my dear sir, just what I wish, and I know, from the kind and friendly feeling you have shown toward my invention, I may count on your aid.

If, on your return, you stop a day or two in New York, I shall be glad to show you the operation of the Telegraph as it is.
This modest request of the inventor was doomed, like so many of his hopes, to be shattered, as we learn from the courteous reply of Mr.
Boardman, dated August 12:-- DEAR SIR,--Yours of the 10th is received.

I had already seen the notice of your Telegraph in the "Tribune," and was prepared for such a report.
This is not the time to commence any new project before Congress.

We are, I trust, within ten days of adjournment.