But, in anticipation of the stretching to which I was about to be subjected, I had interwoven myself among the seats.

In dragging me out, on this occasion, it must have cost the company twenty-five or thirty dollars, for I tore up seats and all.

So great was the excitement in Lynn, on the subject, that the superintendent, Mr.Stephen A.Chase, ordered the trains to run through Lynn without stopping, while I remained in that town; and this ridiculous farce was enacted.

For several days the trains went dashing through Lynn without stopping.

At the same time that they excluded a free colored man from their cars, this same company allowed slaves, in company with their masters and mistresses, to ride unmolested.
After many battles with the railroad conductors, and being roughly handled in not a few instances, proscription was at last abandoned; and the "Jim Crow car"-- set up for the degradation of colored people--is nowhere found in New England.