Special commissioners were to have concurrent jurisdiction with the U.S. circuit and district courts and the inferior courts of Territories in enforcing the law; fugitives could not testify in their own behalf; no trial by jury was provided; i The precise amount of organization in the Underground Railroad cannot be definitely ascertained because of the exaggerated use of the figure of railroading in the documents of the "presidents" of the road, Robert Purvis and Levi Coffin, and of its many "conductors," and their discussion of the "packages" and "freight" shipped by them.   anvd [Please select]

Railroading in those days was not what it is in these advanced times.   anvd [Please select]

Iron was too expensive, they argued; furthermore the mountains of the country rendered extensive railroading impossible.   anvd [Please select]

"America," he answered presently, "went through a pioneer period of railroading not unlike England's."'   anvd [Please select]

You have had enough railroading for one day and are tired.   anvd [Please select]

"At any rate we'll have to call off railroading for to-night, for if you are not sleepy, I am."'   anvd [Please select]

"In fact, there are now so many of these miracles of skilful railroading that we have almost ceased to wonder at them."   anvd [Please select]

"And spent it on railroading," said his father, with a laugh.   anvd [Please select]

Touring on an automobile differs from coaching, posting, railroading, from every known means of locomotion, in that you are really lost to the world.   anvd [Please select]

He learned the blacksmith and machinist trades but soon took to railroading, in which he rose rapidly from the humblest place to the position of engineer on the New York Central lines.   anvd [Please select]