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Moreover
,
you
are
well
aware
that
,
in
general
terms
,
the
resisting
power
of
cannon
and
the
expansive
force
of
gunpowder
are
practically
unlimited
.
Well
!
starting
from
this
principle
,
I
ask
myself
whether
,
supposing
sufficient
apparatus
could
be
obtained
constructed
upon
the
conditions
of
ascertained
resistance
,
it
might
not
be
possible
to
project
a
shot
up
to
the
moon
?
"
At
these
words
a
murmur
of
amazement
escaped
from
a
thousand
panting
chests
;
then
succeeded
a
moment
of
perfect
silence
,
resembling
that
profound
stillness
which
precedes
the
bursting
of
a
thunderstorm
.
In
point
of
fact
,
a
thunderstorm
did
peal
forth
,
but
it
was
the
thunder
of
applause
,
or
cries
,
and
of
uproar
which
made
the
very
hall
tremble
.
The
president
attempted
to
speak
,
but
could
not
.
It
was
fully
ten
minutes
before
he
could
make
himself
heard
.
"
Suffer
me
to
finish
,
"
he
calmly
continued
.
"
I
have
looked
at
the
question
in
all
its
bearings
,
I
have
resolutely
attacked
it
,
and
by
incontrovertible
calculations
I
find
that
a
projectile
endowed
with
an
initial
velocity
of
12,000
yards
per
second
,
and
aimed
at
the
moon
,
must
necessarily
reach
it
.
I
have
the
honor
,
my
brave
colleagues
,
to
propose
a
trial
of
this
little
experiment
.
"
It
is
impossible
to
describe
the
effect
produced
by
the
last
words
of
the
honorable
president
--
the
cries
,
the
shouts
,
the
succession
of
roars
,
hurrahs
,
and
all
the
varied
vociferations
which
the
American
language
is
capable
of
supplying
.
It
was
a
scene
of
indescribable
confusion
and
uproar
.
They
shouted
,
they
clapped
,
they
stamped
on
the
floor
of
the
hall
.
All
the
weapons
in
the
museum
discharged
at
once
could
not
have
more
violently
set
in
motion
the
waves
of
sound
.
One
need
not
be
surprised
at
this
.
There
are
some
cannoneers
nearly
as
noisy
as
their
own
guns
.
Barbicane
remained
calm
in
the
midst
of
this
enthusiastic
clamor
;
perhaps
he
was
desirous
of
addressing
a
few
more
words
to
his
colleagues
,
for
by
his
gestures
he
demanded
silence
,
and
his
powerful
alarum
was
worn
out
by
its
violent
reports
.
No
attention
,
however
,
was
paid
to
his
request
.
He
was
presently
torn
from
his
seat
and
passed
from
the
hands
of
his
faithful
colleagues
into
the
arms
of
a
no
less
excited
crowd
.
Nothing
can
astound
an
American
.
It
has
often
been
asserted
that
the
word
"
impossible
"
in
not
a
French
one
.
People
have
evidently
been
deceived
by
the
dictionary
.
In
America
,
all
is
easy
,
all
is
simple
;
and
as
for
mechanical
difficulties
,
they
are
overcome
before
they
arise
.
Between
Barbicane
's
proposition
and
its
realization
no
true
Yankee
would
have
allowed
even
the
semblance
of
a
difficulty
to
be
possible
.
A
thing
with
them
is
no
sooner
said
than
done
.
The
triumphal
progress
of
the
president
continued
throughout
the
evening
.
It
was
a
regular
torchlight
procession
.
Irish
,
Germans
,
French
,
Scotch
,
all
the
heterogeneous
units
which
make
up
the
population
of
Maryland
shouted
in
their
respective
vernaculars
;
and
the
"
vivas
,
"
"
hurrahs
,
"
and
"
bravos
"
were
intermingled
in
inexpressible
enthusiasm
.
Just
at
this
crisis
,
as
though
she
comprehended
all
this
agitation
regarding
herself
,
the
moon
shone
forth
with
serene
splendor
,
eclipsing
by
her
intense
illumination
all
the
surrounding
lights
.
The
Yankees
all
turned
their
gaze
toward
her
resplendent
orb
,
kissed
their
hands
,
called
her
by
all
kinds
of
endearing
names
.
Between
eight
o'clock
and
midnight
one
optician
in
Jones
'
-
Fall
Street
made
his
fortune
by
the
sale
of
opera-glasses
.
Midnight
arrived
,
and
the
enthusiasm
showed
no
signs
of
diminution
.
It
spread
equally
among
all
classes
of
citizens
--
men
of
science
,
shopkeepers
,
merchants
,
porters
,
chair-men
,
as
well
as
"
greenhorns
,
"
were
stirred
in
their
innermost
fibres
.
A
national
enterprise
was
at
stake
.
The
whole
city
,
high
and
low
,
the
quays
bordering
the
Patapsco
,
the
ships
lying
in
the
basins
,
disgorged
a
crowd
drunk
with
joy
,
gin
,
and
whisky
.
Every
one
chattered
,
argued
,
discussed
,
disputed
,
applauded
,
from
the
gentleman
lounging
upon
the
barroom
settee
with
his
tumbler
of
sherry-cobbler
before
him
down
to
the
waterman
who
got
drunk
upon
his
"
knock-me-down
"
in
the
dingy
taverns
of
Fell
Point
.
