The chief motive I
have in the trip this fall is to notice the country through which the Pacific
R. R. runs. The mistake made by Congress was in not concentrating its aid on
one road commencing far enough west to be the common meeting point of all the
Eastern roads, and then push it through with all the means of the Government.
As it is too late to
alter the law, it is probable one of the roads now building will be selected,
and gratuities will not be given to the other further than the one hundredth
meridian. I am a member of the Railroad Committee, and therefore take an active
interest in the question.
SOURCE: Rachel
Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between
General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 270-1
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