He was fortunate in choosing as his business and legal adviser the Honorable Amos Kendall.
Mr.James D.Reid, one of the early telegraphers and a staunch and faithful friend of Morse's, thus speaks of Mr.Kendall in his valuable book "The Telegraph in America":-- "Mr.Kendall is too well known in American history to require description.

He was General Jackson's Postmaster General, incorruptible, able, an educated lawyer, clear-headed, methodical, and ingenious.

But he was somewhat rigid in his manners and methods, and lacked the dash and _bonhomie_ which would have carried him successfully into the business centres of the seaboard cities, and brought capital largely and cheerfully to his feet.

Of personal magnetism, indeed, except in private intercourse, where he was eminently delightful, he had, at this period of his life, none.

This made his work difficult, especially with railroad men.