Excerpt from Proposed Railroad Routes Between Rutland and Woodstock: Reasons Why Rutland Should Not Be Mortgaged

III. Let us now proceed to inquire whether it has been or can be satisfactorily established by the advocates of the Chittenden route that no other feasible, practicable connection than that by their favorite mute, can be had between Rutland and White Riv er Junction, from which at the same time Rutland shall derive material advantages, substantially equal to those she would de rive from the Chittenden mad, and without the necessity of bond ing the town to build it. In View of the enormous expense we are asked to innurto build the Chittenden route - in view of the vast burden of our already existing debts, is not the inquiry im-e portant to 'be made? Is not the' question worthy to be candidly ln vestigated and to be honestly and impartially decided? It IS well known that the Legislature, at its last session, chartered two rail roads between Rutland and Woodstock, by two seperate routes, the one by the way of Chittenden and rest Bridgewater, - the othe1 by the way of Healdville on the line of the Rutland Road to West Bridgewater, and thence to Woodstock on the same route. It is fair to presume that both routes are supposed to possess ad vantages or they would not have been chartered. Now what right have the friends of the 'tttenden route to assume, without discussion, without enquiry, and without comparison, that their route is not only the only practicable one. But the preferable one in all'respects? Plainly not any. Let us proceed, then with the comparison, in doing which we will state no fact that 1811013 capa ble of being proved. Beyond successful contradiction.

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