Tuesday 15 January 2008

News from America

The study of the domestic policy of the United States, always somewhat difficult to foreigners, has not been facilitated by the use which is made of the electric telegraph. The isolated scraps in which the main items of intelligence reach the Old World by this means of communication are very apt to puzzle all but the well informed, & by depriving the subsequent epistolary correspondence of all novelty, to discourage efforts necessary to obtain a comprehensive view of American affairs

Illustrated London News 14 September 1867

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