Mr.Prime in a footnote remarks: "Mr.Henry O'Reilly has deposited in the Library of the New York Historical Society more than one hundred volumes containing a complete history of telegraphic litigation in the United States.

These records are at all times accessible to any persons who wish to investigate the claims and rights of individuals or companies.

The _testimony_ alone in the various suits fills several volumes, each as large as this." It will, therefore, only be necessary to say that almost all of these suits, including the final one before the Supreme Court of the United States, were decided in Morse's favor.

Every legal device was used against him; his claims and those of others were sifted to the uttermost, and then as now expert opinion was found to uphold both sides of the case.

To quote Mr.Prime: "The decision of the Supreme Court was unanimous on all the points involving the right of Professor Morse to the claim of being the original inventor of the Electro-Magnetic Recording Telegraph.