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The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
an enunciation of a clear and general policy of vast importance. It is believed that Mr. Stevens will introduce a bill for a direct line between Washington and New York — so direct and level as to avoid every local interest of any diversion from its main course to help any other road. That it will cross leading railroads on the route it must traverse; is to be expected; but that it will be so surveyed as to look to the promotion of any particular interest will simply be to discard the object the President had in view and to forget the public interests. It will probably cross the Susquehanna at a point near the mouth of the Conestoga, and will therefore run through one of the richest sections of Pennsylvania. It is confidently calculated that when this road is built, the travel between Washington and New York will not take more than seven hours. This will, in fact, be a national road, built by the Government as well for its own purposes as for the promotion of the general weal."