"While thus we are enlarging the facilities of action, let us see to it that we maintain, at home, domestic virtue, individual intelligence--that we spread our common schools, that we multiply our newspapers throughout the land, that we make books more plenty than the leaves of the forest trees. Let every man among us be a reader and thinker and owner, and so he will be an actor. And when all men through the globe are readers, when all men through the globe are thinkers, when all men through the globe are actors--are actors because they think right--when they speak nation to nation, when from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same there is not alone a free intercourse of thought but one current of heart, virtue, religion, love--then the earth will have blossomed and consummated its history." Archbishop Hughes sent this note: "LONG BRANCH, _August 26, 1858_. "_My dear Mr. Field_,--Under the blessing of Almighty God you have accomplished the work. But your merit, if not your human glory, would have been the same in my estimation if you had returned to us what they would call a disappointed man in whose scales of judgment enthusiasm had preponderated over 'common-sense.' "Yours faithfully, "JOHN, Archbishop of New York." The letters which follow do not require explanation; the one from George Peabody & Co. shows that Mr. Field did not profit largely by the success of the cable: "ST. JOHN'S, _August 9, 1858_. "_My dear Sir,_--Allow me, among many more worthy, to offer you my very sincere congratulations on the successful completion of the great enterprise which you have labored with so much and such admirable perseverance to carry through, in the midst of so many hinderances and discouragements. "It would give me very great pleasure if you would, during your stay in St. John's, make my house your home or place of abode. I am aware that you have many friends and engagements, but as I have no family you could have two rooms entirely at your disposal, and I would make my hours suit your convenience.... "I am, my dear sir, "Very truly yours, "EDWARD FIELD, "Bishop of Newfoundland." "ST. JOHN'S, _August 18, 1858_. "_My dear Mr. Field,_--Allow me to congratulate you most sincerely on the accomplishment of the wonderful work you so nobly carried out in the midst of almost insurmountable difficulties.