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There is reason to expect that equal success will attend and even greater results follow the enterprise for connecting the two continents through the Pacific Ocean by the projected line of telegraph between Kamchatka and the Russian possessions in America.
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Andrew Johnson
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Johnson expresses hope for the success of a new telegraph project connecting the continents through the Pacific Ocean.

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