Railroad Ruffianism

On my way from Taunton to Boston, on Saturday Jast, in company wiih Rev. Hiram Cummings, of Duxbury, in this State, and Dr. T. Jennings, Jr., of Boston, by profession a dentist, and while the cars stopped at the Norton depot, we were attacked by the brutal conductor, assisted by his posse of inhuman breakemen, ever ready to do the bidding of slavery, throügh the authority of the directora of theTaunlon and New Bedford Branch Railroad, and an attempt made to ROB lT8 OF OUR RIGHTS, and, so far as we kow, of ourmoneytoo. But whether they inten ded lo rob us of our money or not, I will not say, nor do I care, 80 long as I DO LNOV that they used all the physical orco they could to drag us from tbc cars, (the public highway on which we were peaceably travelling, and for whichiL.go vu íiuu uiu wie uiw pnce demanded,) and thus deprivc us ol'our rights as citizens of (his State, amenabte NOT TO LYNCH LAW, but to tho faws of the commonweallh of Massachusetts. lf I have committed any crime against our laws I refuse not to auiTer the penalty of ihat law which I have broken )aws,but I do protest againsl beíxg lynched fou no crime. Iflhave broken any law of my country, there are proper courts before whom I may be arraigned and proper officers to take me ihere; bui I ask in the name of justce,what right has the conductor of a railroad to consliuite himself, or the directors of the same to con9tilule him constable, counsel, jud-je, jury, and all? 1 have thought ihat a man rnight be tried by twelvcof his peer.;, selecied according to law, instcnd of a conductor of a railroad, and half ihat numbcr of his breákemen. Ain I mistaken in tuis? One would think so, to see u lurge number ofpassengeis stand by, nnd not utter one word against such barbarous outrages! I do not knovv another civillzed country n the world where such oulrages are toleratet!. In Russia, at the opening of the St. Petersliurgh Railroad, it is true, that the nobility refused to take seats in the long car by the sideof the pensanlry,but the emperor sent an armed force to the railroad daily, not toput tho peasantry into the 'Jim Crow" car, for they had no such car, bul to force the nobility to ride wih the peasants, or not at all. Even the Emperor himselftook his seat n the Ion car, in order to break down that spirit of caste, and set nn example to othera. But what was "our crime? Dr. Jennings ask'ed for a specificalion, and was replied to by the conductor thus : "D n you, you have abused me er.ongh at New Bedford; now come out of this car." - Sayírig this, he pounced upon him like a liger. Mr. Cuminings and uiyself remonsiated, and this being our awful crime in the opinión of this Lynch Law tribunal,we were eeized by some three or four of the brakeman, who made f ad havoc with wíadows, hals, buttons, broadcloth, &c, &c., for about five minutes, but ihe trio did not seem to move much. Dr. Jinnings, however, feeling that his friends were in danger of much injury in their persons on his account, said he would go out of the car which he did, and Mr. C. and myself maintaincd our position,and kepl the seats we had first chosen. Such are the outragcs practiccd with impunity on ihc abuve and on the Eastern rail roads. The republican (?) code is now the Lynch law, or the slave code. Slavery demands that the slave shall nol be molested in a car, while the free colored man must be dragged out. Whal's theremedy? Such laws as we have, so far as they will meet the case, and the BALLOT BOX, lo cause such laws to be made as, if executedjWÜl protectus i,n our rights. J. WALLEN. Two days before Dr. Jinnings had been dragged out of the same car, by the same brutes, because he s a colored man, and in a 9peech at New Bed ford, gave his opinión of such conduct.The Philunlhropist informs us that C. C Burleigh, has recenily given twoantislavery addresses in CincinnaMi. One was given in the evening in Dr. Brisbane's church, tvhere some hundrcd men and boys, more or less, appeared in the character of mob-fiends, to do their deeds of violence and mischief. The assembly, however, was too numerous and respectable fur them to adventure their designed atlack. Their schemes evaporated in throwinga stone - in noisy shouts, and in blackguarri insulta. It appearsfrom Doctor Bailey's statement, that some of these wretches were from the Kentucky side oftlieriver. They led on the fray, and undoubíedly, to a great extent constuted the rabble. Out of abundnnt caulion, the next lecture was given at3o'clock P. M., and then it was decided by prudent counsels to discontinue the series altogether. iïow humiliating! The queen city of the. west then, is under the control of a band of the mo9t atrocious desperadoes !- Sosays the editor of the Philanthropist. - The constitution and the laws añurd no shield of protection to any sutpected friend -r Aamnc-müc. frcedom :