To Frank Fuller1Jump to section
Gov. Utah--- Oct 20 1861
Sir.
The completion of the Telegraph to Great Salt Lake City is auspicious of the Stability & Union of the Republic.
The Government reciprocates your Congratulations
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Annotation
[1] Copy, owned by Miss Eileen Thorne, Jackson Heights, New York. The operator's copy of the telegram is written on a blank of the Pacific Telegraph Company. Lincoln replied to a telegram of the same date from Fuller, secretary of state and acting governor of Utah, celebrating the opening of telegraph wires to Salt Lake City. The text of Fuller's telegram appears in the New York Herald, October 21, 1861, as follows:
``To the President of the United States:--- Great Salt Lake City.
``Utah, whose citizens strenuously resist all imputations of disloyalty, congratulates the President upon the completion of an enterprise which spans the continent, unites two oceans and connects remote extremities of the body politic with the great government heart. May the whole system speedily thrill with quickened pulsations of that heart, the parricidal hand of political treason be punished, and the entire sisterhood of States join hands in glad reunion around the national fireside.
``FRANK FULLER,
``Acting Governor of Utah.''