The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-01-29
Champlain and Connecticut River
Railroad.

an impulse, at home and abroad, which
cannot fail 10 ensure its ultimate success.
Our advices from Boston are full OF en-.
courogement, and derived from men whose
ability as well as personal interest, are
commensurate with the task OF filing I'D
the balance OF our subscriptions, and of
carrying the work forward to ils speedy
contamination. The Cheshire and Fitch.
burg Corporations are ready 20 extend the
most substantial encouragement, by pro-
posing liberal terms OF connection, and by
subscriptions and Otherwise. Indeed we
believe tina, a more favorable arrau gemen,
can be effected with those corporations
now than heretofore. because, land partly
owing 10 the able and faithful services Of
the N. e. Sen. )hcy better understand no
merits Of our road, & the great importance
of making it tributary TO theirs oy such
connection. At the other termini, Mr. Gill;
bert has been engaged during the past
week, in locating portion OF the road
from Burlington, for the purpose OF Sc.
curing favorable entrance into tha. own.
and commodious locality for Dero,
buildings etc in both Of which objects,
we learn that he has been entirely sue.
cessful.
We are happy to say also, for the en-.
couragement of our friends, chat there are
no Earrings among :Ae Stoekholders on
The line; no divided interests 10 dis,rac,
their cosnsels, or obstruct their united ef-
forts. |. is true that gentlemen interested
in the Western and Housatonic roads have
presented most tempting alternative to
the friends OF ours, in case we fail 10 unite
with The Cheshire. They have proposed
10 guarantee every dollar of the stock,
from Rutland to Piusfe!d, and to secure
a most advantageous connection with the
Western road, for the transportation OF
freight and passengers. But all are
agreed TO hold these offers ia ubeyance for
the present, aud unite IN one moro effort
10 reach Bellows Falls. This is The orig
inal and the only object OF our charter; il
is equally feasible, more direct, and con
sequently less expensive, than any other
route from Boston TO Burlington We
still adhere 20 it therefore, as the old say,
the best way, land now at Ieas!) he only
way. And iflhose from abroad, who are
equally Interested in this project, are how
prepared TO meet US, there will be but one
opinion and one voice, as 10 he route, or
the result. II is not to be disguised how
ever, tina, the other alternative will be ON.
braced at ONCE. if we do not succeed in
this. AS expressed in the resolution
adopted al the Rutland Convention, in one
direction or the other, "by The way OF
Bellows Falls or Bennington, zee wiH
hare a rnil,oad!'
The WaIchman OF the 22l inst, lhiHks
there is "more pluck than discretion 10
this" and that The adoption Of he resou-
lion twas heavy blow 10 our interests
in Boston," We are not informed wins:
kind of a Jlow is intended, by the rara-
graph, whether il was blow up. or
blow out. But this we know, that our
enterprise was so we'll developed at Ru,-
land, that the delegates from Boston de-
cIared it 10 be " full blown," and its later.
ests were waited by them to the cast. as
direct as an air line, and with as much
despatch as Post and -Four" could re.
turn them to The city Of Bos on. Undoubi.
eddy those "interess have experienced a
heavy blow" there, such as will fan .hrm
into fame, while the Altar Of the Cen.
,raI organ, like that OF Baal, cannot be
lighted, though Col. Reed himself. the
high priest, cries ,v heaven bath for Ere
and for fuel.
Already we have the most reliable as
surances, that he subscriptions TO our
stock will be completed within two months.
and We are confident that our road will be
located and put under contract carly 10
the spring.
1t would SAVIOR OF egotism to adop; the
more positive and prophetic assertion cf
the Ws,chman, "that i. is mol ia The pow.
er Of man to stop u.s." or tho somewhat
equivocuI though submissive language Of
The resolution adopted at the meeting a;