The directors of this railroad control the State; and there is no such thing as justice to be obtained in any of the State courts in a matter in which they are concerned.

If you will accept of my arm, I will accompany you to the other car--if you will not permit the child to go there alone, you had better go quietly with him." "Oh, what is the use of so much talk about it?
Why don't you hustle the old thing out," remarked a bystander, the respectability of whose appearance contrasted broadly with his manners; "she is some crack-brained abolitionist.

Making so much fuss about a little nigger! Let her go into the nigger car--she'll be more at home there." Mrs.Bird, seeing the uselessness of contention, accepted the proffered escort of the gentleman before mentioned, and was followed out of the cars by the conductor and his blackguard assistants, all of them highly elated by the victory they had won over a defenceless old woman and a feeble little boy.
Mrs.Bird shrunk back, as they opened the door of the car that had been set apart for coloured persons, and such objectionable whites as were not admitted to the first-class cars.

"Oh, what a wretched place!" she exclaimed, as she surveyed the rough pine timbers and dirty floor; "I would not force a dog to ride in such a filthy place." "Oh, don't stay here, ma'am; never mind me--I shall get on by myself well enough, I dare say," said Charlie; "it is too nasty a place for you to stay in." "No, my child," she replied; "I'll remain with you.

I could not think of permitting you to be alone in your present state of health.