94 SLEEPING IN RAILWAY CARS. 



views can hesitate as to his choice of two evils, and he 

 must prefer the English Parliament, as it was and is, to 

 the Congress of the United States. 



The boasted convenience for sleeping through the 

 night in the railway cars was about the greatest mistake 

 that it was possible to imagine. A berth above, about a 

 foot broad, was the upper place ; and two berths, side by 

 side, were the lower ones. I selected the upper one, and 

 my kind fellow-traveller on that occasion, I think Mr 

 Sullivant, secured the two lower ones for himself; so that 

 we avoided the spitting of tobacco, and laughed a good 

 deal at my ejaculations, so hopeless of rest when I climbed 

 into my cage of torture. Attached to all trains there is 

 what is termed a lady's carriage, in which smoking is 

 prohibited ; into this, when it is not full, men of respect 

 able exterior are permitted, and at times men get in there 

 whose looks are decidedly the reverse. Though the rail 

 way companies set their faces against two prices, as sub 

 versive of democratic principle or no principle, they 

 nevertheless pretend to attach what they call the emigrant 

 car, wherein they will let people travel at second-class 

 price. I believe this carriage to be a vision, or perhaps 

 one for the conveyance of men of colour ; all I know to a 

 certainty is, that men, women, and children can pay 

 an emigrant price, and that though they may be of .the 

 lowest of the low, and covered with disease and filth and 

 tatters, at that second-class price they are put into the 

 same cars as those who pay the full price. As utterly a 

 dishonest act as a just man can well imagine. 



In England the first-class price keeps a carriage select. 

 But in America there are thus in reality two prices, and 

 the respectable class of passengers are annoyed and dis 

 gusted, and their intentions nullified, by having rogues, 



