Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1846-01-15

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crate consideration, and submit the
following ,,9eg 4
REPORT. ,1s',,.i
The Committee do not suppose that /
it is expected of them, or that it can be
necessary, al this time, to enter upon l
the discussion either ofthe practicabil-l
ity Of constructing Railroad from
Burlington to Connecticut River, on
the line Familiarity known as the ''Rut-
land Route" or of the benefits that
would be likely to resultlrom the CONS
pletion of that enterprise, both to the
public at large, and more especially
totheindividual stockholders by whose
efforts it should be successfully accom-
plished Both these preliminary ques-
tons, so undeniably important to be
afirmatively settled, have,in the course
OF the somewhat animated and ear
nest controversy, in which the friends
of the Rutland Road have felt them
selves compelled to engage pnfortu-
nately, perhaps, for both enterprises,
with the advocates OF another project
been f'illy. and there seems ressofiio
suppose, satisfactorily adjusted. BE
this as il may, however it is not here,
before an assembage consisting main
ly of the Country Stockholders in the
Rutland Road, men who have sealed
their confidence in the enterprise, by
the subscription Of a million Of dollars
| towards its completion, that it can be
| 70 hn
sion. Wherever else faith in theRut
land Road may be in "leading strings"
it has attained sturdy manhood in
Western Vermont. oHe .-snus4 To- iet
| Nor DC we suppose that it is advisa-
BIZ, however interesting and satisfac-
tory it might be, to many, to recapitu-
late and explain the various causes
which,in our opinion, have operated to
postpone to period SO much later than
/, could nationally have been anticiroted
Bbythose who look more at the merits
!. Of a cause than at the adroitness of its
d opposerS, the commencement of the
work of constructing theRutland Road,
and which, by their united influence,
have even threatened to overthrow
and defeat that great enterprise. For
while this committee may claim to
possess the clearest evidence, and may
feel the most aundoubting conviction,
, of the correctness of their imputation
: of the origin, characterand purpose, of
; the adverse influences alluded to- they
are well persuaded that such a recur-
renee to past transactions is not only
, foreign to the objects of this meeting,
/. but would be likely to be far less pro
' fitable than the cultivation Of a steady,
unanimous, and hearty determination,
: for the future, That the just positive
! and relative claims of the Rutland
$ Road have not hitherto been properly
2 acknowledged by those to whom they
. have been presented, is perhaps, ou'
/, misfortune ), if however, those claims
: should be rrjeeted, the misfortune will
i we incline to believe, rest elsewhere.
= We are led to these observations be
: cause the appointment ola Committee
, for the purposes specified in the resolu
. ton under which we act, is an unllsu
i al proceeding, inasmuch as the Direc
tors of the Company are clothed witt
y all requisite authority to adopt any
o course of action for the successful pros
4 ecution Of the great enterprise before
1t us, which may appear to them "expe
dent and proper"--and entire conf
81 dence is ,InqueStionably felt that thu
J. Directors will in no respect come shor
:, either Of their own duty, or the JUS
e expectations of the Stockholders. The
J. committee therefore con:lude that thei
o appointment was made with speeia
; reference TO the somewhat unusua
- circumstances which have thus far at
+, tended our project. While, however
I'd an expression of the views and wish
s. es of the Stockholders, IN this stage o
re our enterprise, may not be absolutely
- required, it viii be doubted by no one
rs and least of all, probably, by the Direc
tors themselves, that such an express
to ion is, at this moment, in the highes
'e degree dcsirabis. YfJ0l t.ttanug
1t is, of course, well understood tina
a Railroad movement, having theopei
countenance and encouragement of
=, great Corporation in another State. Ia
" recently been made in Bennington
m The object of this movement is til
construction ola Railroad extending
from North Adams TO Burlington, thu
~ perfectinga railway connection, by tn
ee way of Pitts6eld, Mass, between Bur
g, lington and Boston and other very Dc
le- sirable markets. A project thus ain
innr ut aud hnNnnd nIlnStinn cnntll hll