Gould-Huntington_0002

In the view I am about to present of this controversy
I can add but little to considerations that must have
already arisen of your own mind founded upon your
great experience as railroad managers, but I offer
them from that abundant caution for which my
profession is noted, in the fear, that in the manifold
engagements and in the pre-occupation of mind which
your labors for many days past have involved you
they may be forgotten.

In a contest of this character the rigors and severity of
rules of law are not to be envoked or strained, when
men withdraw their disputes or disagreements from the
ordinarily constituted tribunals and submit them to
their neighbors, it is with the supposition and expectation
that the abitrators [arbitrators] will take an equitable view of the
situation and "to the extent"[crossed out] do as nearly equal and exact
justice as "they can"[crossed out] is possible.

It may be useful to dwell for a moment on the
origin of the transaction, in which the disagreement
arises that necessitates the parties seeking your
intervention.