About the same time and place a young mulatto called on us and began to
berate his comrades. He said, "Dese old, black Pennsylvania Niggers ain't
got no sense nohow. Dey jest as mean as dey can be." I said, "Ain't you a
Pennsylvanian?" "No, sir; I'se a Southerner, I is. I is a Virginian and
I'se no kin to dem old, black Pennsylvania Niggers; but I'se some kin to
you Southerners." We told him we were sorry he had got into such bad
company. He said, "Yes, Southern folks heap the best."
A Southern railroad conductor said, "My Afro-American friend, you are in
the wrong car; you must get in with your own color." "Well, Cap'n, if you
say so, reckon I'll have to move; but what you goin' to do when we all
gits to heaven?" "Well, if I am conductor, you will move. Get along now."
A man traveling to West Virginia, where they have free cars, said as soon
as they got out of Virginia, at the first stop, it was amusing to see the
darkies vacate their cars and come piling into the white's coaches, thus
showing how aggressive they are for social equality.